UPDATE: George Hotz, via his blog, explained that he is indeed in South America, but just on vacation. He planned the trip back in November, way before he was ever sued by Sony (or allegedly posted ...

Sony’s recent update to the PS3, version 3.21, removed the option to run another OS on your PS3. Many PS3 users had utilized this feature to install Linux on their PS3, and they weren’t too happy when ...

Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero has awarded Sony a subpoena that grants the company access to the PayPal account of PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, for the last two years ...

Well, Geohot promised a workaround for Sony's removal of the "install other OS" feature in PS3 firmware 3.21 and now Geohot has delivered. While it's not available to the public just yet, Geohot's ...

George "Geohot" Hotz has overnight defended his jailbreaking of PS3, saying he's being sued by Sony for "making" the company "mad". Speaking on G4's Attack of the Show last night, Geohot said that his ...

Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero has awarded Sony a subpoena that allows the company to obtain the IP addresses of everyone who visited geohot.com, the personal website of PlayStation 3 jailbreaker ...

It looked for a moment like Geohot and fail0verflow might beat Sony's DMCA lawsuit over the PS3 jailbreak on a jurisdictional technicality, but things didn't go their way: the US District Court for ...

As one would expect, Sony was not pleased with fail0verflow and their new hack that gave users full control over the PlayStation 3. Nor was Sony happy when a hacker named GeoHot took it a step further ...

George Hotz has caused quite the stir in the gaming industry, especially in Sony’s world. This boy genius had attempted to achieve what so many top Sony executives claimed couldn’t be done, and in his ...

As many of you have probably read, the internet has been set ablaze with the recent discovery of formerly secret PlayStation 3 encrypted signature keys which allow any program to be officially “signed ...

A US federal magistrate judge has ruled that Sony may learn the identities of anyone who visited the website of PlayStation 3 jailbreak hacker George Hotz since January 2009, Wired reports. Hotz — a ...

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