Sunday, March 30, 2008
Software
iPhone Pwnage Tool to Be Released
2:00PM Haroon Malik | The iPhone Dev Team’s Pwnage tool is set for public release tomorrow. The tool allows you to upgrade any iPhone with the latest firmware from Apple, modified to make it work with any compatible carrier in any part of the world, and install any application, as well as adding custom payloads, additional software like SSH, FTP, and other applications.
Update: Due to legalities the Pwnage tool has been delayed. We’ll keep you updated with any release information as we get it. [iPhone Dev Team]
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iPhone Pwnage Tool to Be Released Tomorrow Someday
2:00PM Haroon Malik | The iPhone Dev Team’s Pwnage tool is set for public release tomorrow. The tool allows you to upgrade any iPhone with the latest firmware from Apple, modified to make it work with any compatible carrier in any part of the world, and install any application, as well as adding custom payloads, additional software like SSH, FTP, and other applications.
Update: Due to legalities the Pwnage tool has been delayed. We’ll keep you updated with any release information as we get it. [iPhone Dev Team]
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Games
Wii Wheel Gets US$14.99 Price Tag; Your Friends Aren’t Worth it
1:30PM Haroon Malik | Looks like the fellows at Gamestop let the pricing for Nintendo’s Wii Wheel slip, and US$14.99 is the price you’ll be paying for each friend you have over on Mario Kart Wii day, (April 27th.) The game will retail at US$49.99, which includes one Wii Wheel to boot, but for multiplayer mayhem, you’re going to have to fork out that little bit more. Friends suck…not in a good way. Jump to see a blown up shot of the flier with the figures. [Gamestop; Thanks, David W] More »
Phones
iPhone Firmware 2.0 to Have YouTube Plugin for Safari, Says BGR
12:30PM Haroon Malik | BGR is claiming iPhone firmware 2.0 will provide a YouTube plugin for MobileSafari.app. They aren’t citing their source, but they’re pretty confident in their assertion: More »
Robots
Wiimote, iPhone are New Tools of War
11:30AM Haroon Malik | David Bruemmer and Douglas Few, engineers at the US Department of Energy’s Idaho National Lab in Idaho Falls, have put together an unlikely use for the Wiimote—they’ve hacked the remote so it can control a bomb-disposing, landmine-detecting, machine gun-carrying robot.
Gadgets
Star Trek Mark IX Science Tricorder Replica Can’t Tell Chroniton from Beresium
10:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Forget the iPhone, real gadgetphiles carry a tricorder. You never know when some damsel in distress is going to need a lighting quick ruling on whether her Miata is made of Duranium or Tritanium. This life-altering, limited-edition diagnostic tool, complete with authentic sounds from the Voyager and DS9 series, can be yours for US$349.99—although at second glance, didn’t they abolish money in the Star Trek universe? Maybe this thing should be free. [Entertainment Earth]
Random Stuff
Darth Vader Kicks Jedi Master’s Arse With Crutch
9:30AM Jesus Diaz | A drunk guy dressed as Darth Vader, wielding a metal crutch, and probably making sounds like *swwoooshh* and *pew*pew*, assaulted and effectively kicked the arse of the founder of the first Jedi Church of England. The dork, a hairdresser called Barney Jones whose Jedi name is Master Hehol, was beaten down in his garden by the anonymous Vader while he was being interviewed for a documentary. Really. We mean this. The Jedi actually had this to say after the assault: More »
Phones
Helio Ocean 2 Hits FCC, First Impression is Same Old Same-Old
9:30AM Haroon Malik | The FCC has just leaked this image of Helio’s Ocean 2. How do we know that? Well, it’s carrying an OZ2 model and OZ was the alternative moniker of the original Helio Ocean. We can’t tell much else from the drawing, such as whether the Mark 2 Ocean will have the dual slider of its older brother, but we can see the body design will remain true to the original. However, having been overly impressed by the original, we’re sure this baby is going to kick arse whenever it does land. [FCC via Crunch Gear] More »
Online
Hackers Attack Epileptics Forum With Snow Crash-like Seizure Inducing GIFs
8:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | For currently unknown reasons, several internet griefers decided to screw with epileptics last weekend by posting flashing and multicolored images in a support forum run by the nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation. About three percent of epileptics are photosensitive, which means that the flashing lights and colours can trigger migraines or seizures. Way to go, assholes. More »
Software
Linux Last Man Standing In PWN 2 OWN Thunderdome
8:15AM Gizmodo US Edition | The dust has settled on PWN 2 OWN and Linux FTW! The Ubuntu-equipped Sony VAIO was the only computer to get through the tournament unscathed, managing to elude the assembled hackers. On Thursday the MacBook Air was the first to go, followed the next day by the Vista-running Fujitsu, conquered by Shane Macaulay. No one, but no one, however, was able to bring down the penguin. [ PWN 2 OWN via PC World ] More »
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