A $10K Bounty Aims to Make Sony’s PlayStation 5 a Computer Again

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Using your PlayStation to play games is just fine. But what if you could use your Sony console to vibe code with your AI agents on Linux instead? That's what the ownership advocacy organization Fulu wants to make possible, and it’s willing to pay $10,000 to prove it can be done.

Helmed by YouTuber Louis Rossmann and fellow consumer advocate Kevin O'Reilly, Fulu pays bounties to the first person who proves they can fix or bypass product features that Fulu deems to be hostile to device owners. Fulu puts up the first $10,000, then will match donations up to another $10K. Since it started in late 2025, Fulu has paid out two bounties so far—one for a fix of Google’s outdated Nest thermostats and another for DRM-enabled Molekule air purifiers.

On Tuesday, Fulu announced a bountythat would reward hackers who could disable Sony’s proprietary software locks on...

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