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Submission + - iPhone Researchers Gain a Shell (beskerming.com)

Submitted by

SkiifGeek

on Friday July 06, 2007 @07:45PM

SkiifGeek writes: "A team of researchers (#iphone @ irc.osx86.hu) dedicated to finding means to fully control and interact with the new Apple iPhone claim to have successfully gained an interactive shell on the device. In order to achieve this feat physical access to the phone is required, as it relies on some minor electronics to be created and connected to the phone's serial port.

It is believed that general control over the iPhone will be available to the enterprising researchers within a week (after all, it has only just been a week since the iPhone was released), with the promise of enough control to allow for self-propagating code not very far away."

Submission + - M$ extends warrenty to 3 years on xbox 360 (myway.com)

Submitted by

VEGETA_GT

on Friday July 06, 2007 @07:31PM

VEGETA_GT writes: "M$ extending the xbox 360 warranty to 3 years and its retroactive so all current models including the original batches that where some what prone to overheating are covered. M$ expects to spend more than $1 billion to repair widespread hardware problems in its Xbox 360 video game console after a large number of them broke down"

Half-Squid, Half-Octopus Discovered Off of Hawaii 170

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 06, 2007 @07:31PM from the half-squid-half-octopus-all-disco-lover dept.

Otter writes "A unique creature that's been dubbed an 'octosquid' with eight arms and a squid-like mantle, was discovered off Hawaii. The creature, of a previously unknown species, was trapped in the net covering a 3,000 foot-deep intake tube for the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority. From the article: 'The octosquid was pulled to the surface, along with three rattail fish and half a dozen satellite jellyfish, and stayed alive for three days. According to War, the lab usually checks its filters once a month, but this time, it put a plankton net in one of the filters and checked it two weeks later. The pitch-black conditions at 3,000 feet below sea level are unfamiliar to most but riveting to scientists who have had the opportunity to submerge. The sea floor is full of loose sediment, big boulders and rocks, and a lot of mucuslike things floating in the water, which are usually specimens that died at the surface and drifted to the bottom.'"

Submission + - Cancel your cell phone contract, without a penalty (com.com)

Submitted by

mrsam

on Friday July 06, 2007 @07:30PM

mrsam writes: "You want that iPhone, but you're stuck on your current cell phone contract, for another two years?

It turns out that (at least with Sprint) there's an easy way to get out of your contract, without getting soaked. All you have to do is call Customer Service, a dozen times, or so, and you're free!"

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