Sony tries to rearm their game console flagship. Most of you using your Playstations will likely have found out: since the end of last week Sony broadcasts a new firmware 3.42. They say it fixes security issues, which not quite wrong. But do we wanna have this issue fixed? At the moment for online players [...]

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A coder going under the nick “black_zero” ported the PS3 jailbreak to the Palm Pre. Find his instructions for “PS3 Freedom for Palm Pre” on the PSX-Scene.com. [Update] In contrast to “PS3 Groove” this version also seems to enable the possibility of backups – means circumventing of copy protections. It is legally not allowed to [...]

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As expected an open source version of the PS3 Jailbreak has been released by french hackers Mathieulh and RichDevX. Find the source code here. Support for PS3Jailbreak’s backup manager which would technically allow piracy, has thus been disabled as this implementation targets at homebrew only. The exploit is intended to be burnt to AT90USB and [...]

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German Gamefreax claim to have reverse engineered a testing PSJailbreak device. They say this exploit is based on emulating of a USB hub which gets virtual devices attached and unattached at certain points during the boot process. Among those emulated devices there is also one that uses the ID of Sony’s JIG module. Anyway Gamefreax [...]

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Media have widely reported about the latest steps in hacking the Playstation 3 console. Obviously that tiny PS Jailbreak USB Dongle turns a consumer PS3 into a debug PS3, thus allowing to run games from the internal or from an attached USB harddrive. The price is said to be around 160US$. For legal reasons here [...]

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More videos showing Apple’s allegedly upcoming new Jesus phone iPhone 4G have surfaced on YouTube… Check’em here: and here: and another one:

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Team Spirit has just released a jailbreak for the latest firmwares for iPhone iPod Touch and iPad (early beta) As it seems it will only jailbreak an already activated device and it will not perform a carrier unlock. The jailbreak tool is available for Windows and Mac OS X and it installs the Cydia repository. [...]

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On Wall Street Journal Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen yesterday nite answered to Steve Jobs latest attack. Jobs had released an open letter yesterday morning. The bottom line of Jobs’ letter is: Adobe Flash is something from the past, as it is not open, it is not energy efficient and it does not unleash the full [...]

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According to TheBigBoss.org two tools have appeared on the net: ThunderSt0rm and TurboSn0w Both of them are fakes and don’t jailbreak the iPhone, the iPod Touch, nor the iPad, but harm your system and delete iTunes files. Thus leaving you with broken installations.

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According to Rixstep.com Apple plans to set up an App Store starting with the introduction of Mac OS X 10.7. Developers planning on marketing software for 10.7 will submit their products to the App Store as iPhone and now iPad developers have already done. 10.7 will have kernel support for (‘insistence on’) binaries signed with [...]

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The proxy unlock seller of the Rebel SIM has just released a tool to downgrade the Palm Pre’s baseband to re-allow proxy SIM unlocking with their Rebel SIM. Find the manual here. As we don’t have exact information about how the Rebel SIM works we suspect it’s based on the same background as the iPhone [...]

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Notorious Planetbeing – member of the famous iPhone Dev Team – just released a vid showing he managed to install Google’s Android operating system on an iPhone 2G. In the video below Android is demonstrated on an iPhone 2G; however, it should be pretty simple to port forward to the iPhone 3G. The 3GS will [...]

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German carrier O2 just revealed the price tags of their latest Palm gadgets: the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm Pixi Plus. Distribution will start April 28th, 2010. Pre Plus: 509€ (or 29€ as down payment and 24mth x 20€) Pixi Plus: 389€ (or 29€ as down payment and 24mth x 15€) Both devices come [...]

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The jailbreak the iPhone Dev Team released a couple of days ago is in no way intended to be used by end-users rather than developers. It is a jailbreak-only, that allows Cydia based developers to make their apps compatible to iPhone OS 4.0. The jailbreak still requires a legal activation via iTunes and a valid [...]

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Engadget reports they got hands on pictures of the upcoming iPhone 4G. They seem to be from an inside testlab of Apple. Readmore on Engadget.com…

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Egyptian neurosurgeon Sherif Hashim seems to have found something very interesting. He found a way to actually crash the iPhone’s baseband 05.12.01 of the latest firmware update 3.1.3. MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team has confirmed this bug. Though the iPhone Dev Team posted later today that they cannot tell if this bug actually leads [...]

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From the iPhone Dev Team’s Wiki: What is it? A cross-platform jailbreaking, unlocking, and customizing tool for iPhones and iPod touches. Customizations include boot logos, recovery logos, and “verbose” boot. It’s a standalone program that doesn’t use iTunes (no custom IPSWs are involved). The download links are at the bottom of this page (but please [...]

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Multifl0w is an attempt to bring multi-tasking capabilities known from our latest toy – the Palm Pre – to the iPhone. Sadly this nice (and overdue) feature is only available to iPhone customers having jailbroken their devices. It does not feature the Palm Pre’s multitasking gestures nor the ‘swipe up to exit’ functionality, but it [...]

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It is well known, that there are commercial thieves who use freely available programs and ideas by the iPhone Dev Team, GeoHot, Chronic Dev Team and others. We highly recommend not to buy any unlocking or jailbreaking solution. They are available for free. We prepped a list of current scammers making a business modell out [...]

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Apple must be pleased about this news. They haven’t become tired in telling the people that jailbreaking the iPhone seriously compromises user security. And now a worm developed by Ashley Towns from down under is nothing else but attacking jailbroken iPhones whose Secure Shell has not been disabled or where the default root password (“alpine”) [...]

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