A widespread crash has occured today for "phat"  PS3 users resulting in a "8001050F" error. Here are the symptoms to this problem: Can not connect to PSN "Hardware failure. Cannot update Firmware or connect to Internet" Cannot enter any BR gam [...]

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xorloser has released his PS3 HV Dump setup script for IDA which "setups function tables including the hypercall (syscall) table, mmcall table, OPD, TOC, GOT. It will find common functions such as puts and printf and very importantly it will fixup all rto [...]

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Now this is a nasty rumor to be awoken to, just as the scene finally broke down the hypervisor security, we now hear rumors that Sony is planning to block OtherOS support via next PS3 firmware update. Owen Stampflee Linux Product Manager for Fixstars C [...]

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A Genesis/Megadrive emulator was made for homebrewed xbox 360's: Features: - Graphics/Sound - Achievements (don't be a dumbass and use this on live, your console will be banned) - Favorites Support - XUI user interface - SRAM save support linked t [...]

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SKFU has stumbled across a new patent for a method to protect against encrypted section attacks To quote from SKFU blog and patent below: Recently a new patent by a SONY employee was published on the patent site at faqs.org. It seems it is SONY's an [...]

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Used to unlock arcade games and DLC, XM360 is essential to any jtagged xbox >> Team XeDev released a bugfix version of XM360. What's new/fixed (since v0.8): * fixed bug where Japanese DLC would prevent DLC scene from working (causing a 360 ha [...]

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XeXMenu V1.1 ============= * Added HFS+ drive support * Added ip adress information to the configuration * Added skin loading verify routine to output errors on the screen while starting XeXMenu * Added some user skins * Improved ftp upload sp [...]

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PS3 Hacker CJPC has managed to dump the PS3 hypervisor and LV1 and Bootloader LV0 via PS3 RAM. He has provided a brief explanation of what he did and a download file to the exploit can be found in the VIA link: We are happy to report that the PS3 Hy [...]

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Today GeoHot brings more updates from his blog and twitter about his PS3 work, to quote: Today I verified my theories about running the isolated SPUs as crypto engines. I believe that defeats the last technical argument against the PS3 being hacked. [...]

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A few days ago we told you about how to use Geohots exploit via software, today xorloser has posted up his latest tutorial teaching us how to do it via hardware. To quote: The purpose of the hardware is to stop the PS3 from saving a change to a v [...]

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