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Sony blocks PS3 jailbreaks with firmware 3.42->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Sony has released firmware 3.42 for the PlayStation 3 and with it stopped the current slew of jailbreak solutions from working.

Whether you use PSGroove, PSJailbreak, or PSFreedom, updating to 3.42 will stop them working PS3 Hacks has confirmed. Therefore if you want your console to remain jailbroken you should not update."
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Gartner Issues Smackdown on Open Core->

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Sortova
Sortova writes "Those of us who are concerned about the growing prevalence of the open core (or fauxpen source) business model are often ignored when those VC-backed companies have much more to spend on marketing, as well as the few but profitable acquisitions accomplished by VCs such as Benchmark. We're often labelled as open source "zealots" and enterprises are told to ignore us.

However, enterprises tend not to ignore the advice of Gartner, one of the most respected analyst organizations out there. Today, Brian Prentice posted Open-Core: The Emperor's New Clothes which is a scathing critique of the business model, not as a road to VC riches, but as a solution that enterprises should consider.

There are way too many good quotes to pick just one, but he sums things up with "You see, when you start peeling back some of the value propositions being attached to open core business models what starts to appear is a picture of a bog standard software provider trying to use the latest phraseology to cut through the noise of a crowded marketplace".

In a similar blog post back in 2008 I wrote "The emperor is naked, folks." It is nice to see someone with influence agreeing with me."
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Security

Mozilla to protect Adobe Flash users->

Submitted by Dj
Dj writes "Mozilla are making Firefox check for old versions of the Flash plug in and warning users when it is out of date and vulnerable to security issues. The checking will appear in the next release of Firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.14 which are in beta now."
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Operating Systems

Linux Kernel 2.6.30 Released 341

Posted by Soulskill
from the stick-a-fork-in-it-wait-let-me-rephrase dept.
diegocgteleline.es writes "Linux kernel 2.6.30 has been released. The list of new features includes NILFS2 (a new, log-structured filesystem), a filesystem for object-based storage devices called exofs, local caching for NFS, the RDS protocol (which delivers high-performance reliable connections between the servers of a cluster), a new distributed networking filesystem (POHMELFS), automatic flushing of files on renames/truncates in ext3, ext4 and btrfs, preliminary support for the 802.11w drafts, support for the Microblaze architecture, the Tomoyo security MAC, DRM support for the Radeon R6xx/R7xx graphic cards, asynchronous scanning of devices and partitions for faster bootup, the preadv/pwritev syscalls, several new drivers and many other small improvements."
The Internet

Twitter spoofing fix fails in UK and Germany->

Submitted by ddfall
ddfall writes "An earlier claim that Twitter had fixed the spoof SMS messages issue has been proven not to apply to the UK and Germany, where an attacker with nothing more than the phone number of a mobile phone associated with a Twitter account can send faked messages that appear as a tweet from the victim. In testing at heise Security in Germany and at The H Security in the UK, we were able to create faked Tweets, such as this for @heisec and this for @honline, using nothing more than a SMS sender faking service."
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