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PS3 Hacked? 296

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 25 2010, @06:35AM
from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

Several readers have sent word that George Hotz (a.k.a. geohot), the hacker best known for unlocking Apple's iPhone, says he has now hacked the PlayStation 3. From his blog post: "I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1. I've also dumped the NAND without removing it or a modchip. 3 years, 2 months, 11 days...that's a pretty secure system. ... As far as the exploit goes, I'm not revealing it yet. The theory isn't really patchable, but they can make implementations much harder. Also, for obvious reasons I can't post dumps. I'm hoping to find the decryption keys and post them, but they may be embedded in hardware. Hopefully keys are setup like the iPhone's KBAG."

NYT's "Games To Avoid" an Ironic, Perfect Gamer Wish List 189

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 11 2009, @06:48AM
from the more-or-less dept.

MojoKid writes "From October to December, the advertising departments of a thousand companies exhort children to beg, cajole, and guilt-trip their parents for all manner of inappropriate digital entertainment. As supposedly informed gatekeepers, we sadly earthbound Santas are reduced to scouring the back pages of gaming review sites and magazines, trying to evaluate whether the tot at home is ready for Big Bird's Egg Hunt or Bayonetta. Luckily, The New York Times is here to help. In a recent article provokingly titled 'Ten Games to Cross off Your Child's Gift List,' the NYT names its list of big bads — the video games so foul, so gruesome, so perverse that we'd recommend you buy them immediately — for yourself. Alternatively, if you need gift ideas for the surly, pale teenager in your home whose body contains more plastic then your average d20, this is the newspaper clipping to stuff in your pocket. In other words, if you need a list like this to understand what games to not stuff little Johnny's stocking with this holiday season, you've got larger issues you should concern yourself with. We'd suggest picking up an auto-shotty and taking a few rounds against the horde — it's a wonderful stress relief and you're probably going to need it."

Top Gaming Failures-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2009, @08:37PM

An anonymous reader writes "Many gaming products toil in mediocrity, other select few become cult icons, fewer still become the massive success beyond a company's wildest expectations. There are some gaming products that did much more than flopped, they redefined what failure means, not because of the massive financial costs behind the projects but because their background stories are so often drama filled."
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Comment: Re:PS3 (Score 1) 283

by frederec on Monday October 06 2008, @05:59AM (#25271319) Attached to: "Iron Man" Release Brings Down Paramount's Servers

Sure, I've got AnyDVD on my computer too, and I love it. But I don't have a Blu-Ray drive on my computer. The only Blu-Ray drive I have is my PS3, and while most DVD's I pop in to it have automatic ads, I've yet to see it with Blu-Ray.

Yahoo! launches Pipes

Submitted by

t3rmin4t0r

on Thursday February 08 2007, @11:43AM

t3rmin4t0r writes "Yahoo! has launched Pipes, a unixy way of remixing web content — in a somewhat "leg bone connected to the ankle bone" fashion — with connectors and filters/mutators, ending up with something very similar to the shell way of doing things, except with a cool javascript designer which faintly reminds you of ye olde Java Studio.

If you don't like content from Y! or flickr, this supports feeds from google base, which should make things interesting for real estate data at least. The tool definitely has a "Go forth and write your own aggregators" feel to it, rather than directly hooking into mashup land. As far as I'm concerned, I can finally create a pipe which filters out all the angst-ridden self-loathing out of blog feeds."

EA playing catchup because of Wii Sucess

Submitted by rujholla on Thursday February 08 2007, @11:42AM

rujholla writes "Seekingalpha has a good post up about how EA is scrambling to re-orient themselves with the latest shakeout in the console wars.

It has been fascinating to see the process of Electronic Arts (ERTS) coming to the realization that they got their bets dead wrong, and to see how they've adjusted strategy in the wake of new information (read: a Nintendo (NTDOY.PK) Wii home-run and a Sony (SNE) PS3 disappointment)

The article is full of interesting quotes from various sources about the console war and EA's floundering."

Indonesia stops giving avian virus, sells it.

Submitted by

dankrabach

on Thursday February 08 2007, @10:06AM

dankrabach writes "Indonesia has decided (NY Times, etc) to play the IP game. Instead of submitting avian flu virus samples to the international community, it has decided to sell them to drug companies that make the vaccine. They feel slighted when they give away such samples, but then cannot afford the patented vaccines. Logical to me, given the rules of the game; however, can't we come up with some GPL'ish license to free any product based on this data?"

Windows Expert Sees the Light

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 08 2007, @10:03AM

An anonymous reader writes "Scott Finnie, computerworld's windows expert gives the final verdict to Windows, after 3 months of using a Mac. And the verdict is: "Sayonara".
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9010759&intsrc=hm_ ts_head
From the article: "If you give the Mac three months, as I did, you won't go back either. The hardest part is paying for it — everything after that gets easier and easier. Perhaps fittingly, it took me the full three-month trial period to pay off my expensive MacBook Pro. But the darn thing is worth every penny." Scott Finnie is well known to / readers from earlier stories documenting his trials with Vista Betas, and more recently his displeasure of it."

IT career advice: Personality trumps tech smarts

Submitted by

PetManimal

on Thursday February 08 2007, @09:52AM

PetManimal writes "Computerworld's Rob Mitchell has interviewed four IT career coaches who talk about what it takes to advance your technology career. Unfortunately for a lot of low-level IT worker bees, personality and communication skills trump tech brilliance:

... When you're designing and developing, it's fun, it's creative, it's low key. Then all of a sudden, because you're so good at it, you get promoted, and it pulls you out of what you enjoy and into an administrative role, managing other people and doing paperwork. You're forced into left-brain mode. That becomes stressful.
Mitchell also reveals in his blog that advice from IT career coaches is not cheap: a single meeting can cost $500/hour."

Vista's speech recognition is a new attack vector

Submitted by acidrain on Friday February 02 2007, @09:01AM

acidrain writes "Microsoft has admitted that speech recognition features in Vista could be hijacked so that a PC tells itself to delete files or folders. Now that's just funny."