The ongoing Geohot vs. Sony lawsuit gets more interesting with each passing day. Yesterday, we were talking about Geohot’s apparent fleeing to South America. Today, Geohot himself has both confirmed and denied the rumor he fled the country saying: Factually, it’s true I’m in South America, on a vacation I’ve had planned and paid for since November. I mean, it is Spring break; hacking isn’t my life. Rest assured that not a dime of legal defense money would...

If Sony has their way, the next PS3 refresh will be “unhackable”, thanks to a larger included hard drive and a thus far undisclosed “anti-hacking system” — this according to IGN. It would be interesting to see how Sony plans to temporarily suspend PS3 hacking, but any hopes and claims to be able to permanently stop it just shows how utterly disconnected and incompetent Sony management really is. Piracy — yes, it’s bad. Throwing...

PS3 owners who haven’t yet upgrade to firmware 3.56 need to seriously consider holding off for the time being. Reports are starting to circulate that Sony is back to their old ways — attaching rootkits to their official updates/products. A rootkit is basically a snippet of code that allows a third party/remote entity load code onto a particular device. If you recall, Sony pulled such stunt a few years back with 52 different music CDs. That move resulted in a...

Today we’ve received word that common sense and practicality do not flow through the minds of California’s legal system — PS3 hacker Geohot had his temporary restraining order upheld. During this the next few weeks, Geohot is supposed to turn over any and all computer/electronic equipment used to hack the PS3 and release the tools in question, help other hackers continue his work, link or speak of the very act of PS3 jailbreaking, and pretty much anything...

On a slightly happier note than Sony Ericsson needlessly abandoning their X10/Mini/Mini Pro Android phones comes the revealing of some very official looking Xperia Playstation Phone images. Chinese tech blog it168 went through meticulously previewed the phone giving us the images you’ll see inside after the jump as well as a slew of specs: 1GHz Snapdragon processor, Qualcomm Adreno 205 graphics processor, 512 MB of RAM and ROM (each), 4″ 854 x 480 display,...