A growing number of manufacturers are locking perfectly good hardware behind arbitrary software restrictions. While this ought to be a bigger controversy, people seem to keep paying for things like ...

Giving users unlimited root access is dangerous. Fortunately, you can opt to implement the sudo tool, which will provide limited root access to trusted users. Read on as Jim McIntyre explains the ins ...

Who needs administrative privileges on a network or website? The network admin obviously does. But others ask for root access, too, whether or not they truly need it. How should an admin—or the IT ...

You may have heard of the term “rooting your phone” and you may have seen that some apps on the Google Play Store require “root” access to work. But what is root? What is “rooting” your phone and why ...

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Getting root access inside one of Starlink’s dishes requires a few things that are hard to come by: a deep understanding of board circuitry, eMMC dumping hardware and skills, bootloader software ...

Rooting is the quintessential need of any discerning Android user, as it offers SuperUser (SU) privileges with the ability to install the latest third-party custom ROMs, root apps and newest system ...

Another day, another Internet-connected gadget that gets abandoned by its creators. This time it’s Jooki — a screen-free audio player that let kids listen to music and stories by placing specific ...