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Software

Nearly 1 Million iPhone 4S And iPad 2s Jailbroken In Three Days

10:30PM January 24, 2012 | Roberto Baldwin

The iPhone Dev team just released numbers for the Absinthe A5 jailbreak. According to the site, 953,232 new jailbreaks were recorded. That’s a whole lotta hacking. More »


Gadgets

How To Jailbreak Your Kindle Touch With An MP3 File

8:00PM December 12, 2011 | Jamie Condliffe

Computing

Nook Tablet Rooted, Android Free-For-All Coming

11:00AM November 21, 2011 | Brent Rose

Who would have predicted that Barnes and Noble’s new Nook Tablet would be rooted? Oh, everyone? Well, it still happened, and that’s good news for modders who are looking forward to hacking the bejeezus out of these low-cost tablets. More »


Computing

Turn An Original Xbox Into A Hackintosh

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4:30PM November 9, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Some hacking projects advance our understanding of how things work, or how to make them work better. Others are just… well… because they could. I’d put this particular hack, turning an original Xbox into a hackintosh, into that second category. More »


Gaming

DJ Hero Turned Into A Giant Etch-A-Sketch

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11:00AM October 31, 2011 | Alex Kidman

What do you do with game accessories for a franchise that didn’t exactly set the world on fire? Before sending them off for recycling, you could always opt to do something different — like turning them into a huge etch-a-sketch and MAME controller. More »


Mobile

Amazon Expects Users To Root The Kindle Fire

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11:15AM September 29, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Amazon’s a pretty canny company. Sure, 99% of users who buy a Kindle Fire won’t do anything but buy books on it, but that 1% that don’t want the UI? Amazon expects you to root the unit, and quickly. More »


Online

Sony Awarded Dubious ‘Epic Fail’Award At Hackers’ Oscars

6:30PM August 8, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

A Pwnie award was given to Sony at last week’s Black Hat computer security conference’s Pwnie Awards, which looks at the past year’s hacking efforts and awards them with My Little Pony trophies. Sony’s major security breach from earlier in the year was the only hacking incident to be nominated for the top prize. More »


Online

Anonymous Plans AnonPlus: A Facebook For Hackers, Non-Hackers Alike

9:15PM July 18, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Rather than rest on their keyboards after being kicked off Google+, the hacking group known as Anonymous has created a holding page for AnonPlus, a “new social network where there is no fear…of censorship…of blackout…nor of holding back.” More »


Online

Over 4,800 Web Sites Erased When Australian Web Host Is Hacked

3:28PM June 22, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Thousands of people in Australia are in shock after finding out their web sites are gone due to the antics of a hacker and poor network management by their web host. More »


Gaming

Report: Sony PlayStation Network Password Reset Page Exploited, Customer Accounts Potentially Compromised

12:30AM May 19, 2011 | Joel Johnson

According to reports on Nyleveia.com, Eurogamer, and NeoGAF, Sony’s PlayStation Network password reset system-the one just put in place after the PSN hack-has been compromised, allowing hackers to change a PSN password if they know your email and date… [Kotaku]