In case you ever doubted his feat, or you simply wanted to recreate for sport, iPhone hacker extraordinaire George “Geohot” Hotz has released the exploit code he devised for properly hacking the PS3. This should give any aspiring minglers full memory access, and while he’s only tested it with firmware version 2.4.2, he “imagine[s] it works on all current versions.” A guide might follow sometime in the future, he says, but if you’re really antsy to get your coding kicks, we wouldn’t wait up.
Update: EuroGamer’s got a pretty thorough piece on what Geohot is claiming to have accomplished and what it means to the community — and as Joystiq points out, until we see some “Hello World” proof of concept program, we don’t quite know the extent of his claims. The guy’s got a helluva track record, at least with iPhone, so we presume that’s next on his and the community’s list of to-do’s.
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PlayStation 3 exploit released, hackers rejoice originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Looks like General Motors is ready to make a sizable investment in its electric future. The company’s announced it’ll be sinking $246 million into a high volume motor production facility for designing and manufacturing electric motors — the first U.S.-based automaker to do so, according to the press release. It’s gonna be awhile until we see any results, however: the fruits of the labor won’t be shown until 2013 with two-mode hybrid engines. Let’s hope no one beats them to that “first” claim before then.
General Motors to manufacture electric motors, with first coming in 2013 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You better watch it, Acer — it looks like MSI is getting real close to undercutting your $299 Aspire One 532h netbook with its $309.99 Pine Trail-powered Wind U135. Taiwanese manufacturer disputes aside, not much has changed with the Wind U135 since we brought you our impressions, but we remind you that $305 buys you a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N450, 1GB of RAM, an 160GB hard drive and Windows 7 Starter. If you need a bit more storage, you can shell out an extra 20 bucks for the 250GB version. And the cheap netbook race continues… Check the full PR after the break.
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Color us (not) surprised, but Apple is definitely launching a tablet tomorrow. At least, according to the CEO of one of the planet’s most noted book publishers. In a recent interview on CNBC, Terry McGraw (head honcho of McGraw-Hill, naturally), very openly admitted that books from his company would be coming to an Apple tablet “tomorrow,” and he also confirmed that his company has “worked with Apple for quite awhile.” As he dug the hole deeper, we also learned that the “tablet will be based on the iPhone operating system,” and he noted that said books would be “transferable.” We’re assuming an updated iPhone OS is also in the works, one that presumably supports textbooks in the way that the mythical tablet might. Obviously we’re not taking any of this as gospel until Stevie J confirms or denies it on stage tomorrow — for all we know, Mr. McGraw may have just seen something speculative — but it’s not too often you see a CEO blow this much pointed smoke. Peek the full quote after the break along with the interview clip.
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Fevered speculation over a new Apple product will end on Wednesday when the company unveils its latest creation.
