Sony has been given permission to obtain details of people who downloaded files needed to hack the PlayStation 3.
A judge in San Francisco granted the electronics giant a subpoena that would allow it to see a list of IP addresses. The software, used to crack the PS3′s operating system, was posted on the website of George Hotz, who is also known as Geohot.
Court documents, obtained by Wired magazine, show that the company successfully petitioned to obtain IP addresses from the web-hosting company Bluehost.com
The details could be used to trace the real-world geographical locations of users who accessed George Hotz’s website, Geohot.com.
Mr Hotz denies that he set out to help software pirates, claiming instead that he was championing the ‘home brew’ community – users who write their own software for the PS3.
Sony has said it is now able to remotely identify users who are running hacked PlayStation 3 consoles and that it will ban persistent offenders from using its online services.
Saints Row has always seemed to play second fiddle to Grand Theft Auto in the world of crime games.
But with Saints Row’s over-the-top naughtiness, a bit more like Getaway, which included pumping pedestrians with pooh in the last game, you can’t really call it a clone. Expect the series to continue pursuing its own brand of potty humour and action in Saints Row: The Third, which was just announced for all platforms.
The slick art you see here comes from Game Informer, which will feature Saints Row: The Third on the cover of the magazine’s April issue.
Penny Arcade and Minecraft are teaming up to make a new game that seeks to reinvent the classic collectable card game genre.
Scrolls will be developed by indie game studio Mojang and feature writing by Penny Arcade’s Jerry Holkins.
Holkins brings his flair for writing and deft use of adjectives to the game’s back story. Holkins says he and the rest of the folks at Penny Arcade are big fans of Minecraft.
Still in beta, computer game Minecraft already has more than 4.5 million registered users and has sold more than 1.4 million copies. The game was developed by Markus Persson. Persson has since formed Mojang, a studio of nine based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Vodafone’s mobile network has been disrupted following a break-in at its exchange centre in Basingstoke near Reading.
The company said some customers had lost voice, text and internet access. It is not known the exact number of users that have been affected, however customers from the south of England appeared to make up the majority of those, reporting loss of service on Twitter.
Vodafone responded quickly with a nice vague: “We are working quickly to restore these and will be back to normal as soon as we can.”
It doesn’t take a genius to work out that Vodafone seem to be loosing ground on much its competator, withdrawing much of its sponsership as it has. Customer have seemed for the most part to be content though. At-least they were until this occurred.
Vodafone have been the victim of this sort of thing in the past in other parts of the world, forcing them to cut charges, as well as the “HiJacking” it sustained earlier this month.
Charlie Brookers nice eccentric ragging on Colonel Gaddafi. Im just pleased for him and the fact that he managed to get Tony Blair, Jedi’s and Ice-Cream into the same sentance. I’m not sure how much we trust Gaddafi’s interpreter however, but it is was in fact raining.
From last week’s Ten O’Clock Live, this is some of the most nose-milk-spurting material ever aired. Ten o’clock live’s clips should all be on YouTube.
Someone has managed to bug some more humour into Google search into making the Wikipedia entry for “abortion” into the second result in searches for “murder.” However you feel about abortion, this Wikipedia page is pretty clearly not the second-most relevant document regarding murder on the entire English-speaking World Wide Web. Lets just stick with the Chuck Norris gags eh fellas……..
The Ocean Dome is an amazing man made indoor beach complex in Japan. Every hour, the volcano erupts and the hi-tech wave machines start up, starting a few minutes of sanitized surfing.
Entrance cost is US $50 per person, which seems especially expensive given that there is a free, natural beach only 300 meters away.
Spammers are being thwarted by finding that their junk messages unexpectedly contain warnings urging recipients to delete the e-mail.
The alerts are issued by ImageShack, in an effort to stop spammers using its services. It is replacing pictures, known to have appeared in spam, with warnings such as “Do not buy”. Spammers often use image hosting sites so they can include fake logos, intended to make the mail look genuine. The aim is raise users’ awareness of the problem and to make life difficult for those sending the spam, Alexander Levin, president of ImageShack told BBC News.
The plan is that the spammers lose customers and see a decrease in revenue.
ImageShack’s system is capable of swapping thousands of the spammers’ images for warnings within an hour of them being reported. The company works with anti-spam groups to identify any files that have been uploaded to its servers. It then scours its web logs to uncover other images that have been uploaded from the same web address.
