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Security flaw allows all Nintendo Switch consoles to be hacked

By Reuters
27 April 2018   |   7:31 am
Hackers have revealed how all Nintendo Switches can be made to run codes through an exploit of an unpatchable flaw in the console’s Nvidia Tegra X1 chip.

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