The Edge of I-Hacked

from Engadget

We got a brief shred of playtime back at E3 this year, but Sony was kind enough to invite us down to SCEA HQ in beautiful Foster City for a little one on one with some PlayStation3s and execs. We shot some video (yes, us) and have a some notes on the hardware after the break, so check it out!

P.S. -Our flash video isn’t the highest quality / res. If you want the best looking video of the PS3, check out the VGA h.264 file below.

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Due to security reasons this has been called off..
There are just too many weirdos out there /&/ they ruin it for everyone.

When I get back I will hold another way for someone to win that $100..

Yahoo ‘Web Beacons’ Spy On And Track Yahoo Users!

Yahoo tracks all of its users everywhere on the web and the way to opt-out is detailed below. If you have a Yahoo e-mail account or belong to one of Yahoo’s many Yahoo groups, this probably applies to you. Yahoo has probably been tracking everything you do online. Follow the instructions precisely to opt out of this. Notice the important part at the very end.

“Yahoo is now using something called ‘Web Beacons’ to track Yahoo Group users around the net and see what you’re doing and where you are going similar to cookies. Yahoo is recording every website and every group you visit.

Take a look at their updated privacy statement:

http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy

About half-way down the page, in the section on cookies, you will see a link that says web beacons. Click on the phrase web beacons.

http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html

That will bring you to a paragraph entitled “Outside the Yahoo Network.”

In this section you’ll see a little “click here to opt out” link that will let you “opt-out” of their new method of snooping.

Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted. Notice the “Success” message on the top of the next page. Be careful because on that page there is a “Cancel Opt-out” button that, if clicked, will **undo** the opt-out. So don’t reflexively click that button, or you will undo the opt-out ! Feel free to forward this to other groups.”

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Product name - PLAYSTATION®3
CPU Cell Processor PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE * 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy total floating point performance : 218 GFLOPS
GPU RSX @550MHz 1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines
Sound Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-base processing)
Memory 256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz
System Bandwidth Main RAM 25.6GB/s VRAM 22.4GB/s RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read) SB 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)
System Floating Point Performance 2 TFLOPS
Storage HDD Detachable 2.5″ HDD slot x 1
I/O USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0) Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1 SD standard/mini x 1 CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1
Communication Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2) Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g Bluetooth Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
Controller Bluetooth (up to 7) USB2.0 (wired) Wi-Fi (PSP®) Network (over IP)
AV Output Screen size 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p HDMI HDMI out x 2 Analog AV MULTI OUT x 1 Digital audio DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1
Disc media * read only CD PlayStation® CD-ROM PlayStation®2 CD-ROM CD-DA CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW SACD SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD DualDisc DualDisc (audio side),DualDisc DVD side)
DVD PlayStation®2 DVD-ROM PLAYSTATION®3 DVD-ROM DVD-Video DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc PLAYSTATION®3 BD-ROM BD-Video BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE

Homebrew PSP Game Released!

Update #3: We now have public confirmation that the v1.00 firmware method DOES work, with the release of the 100% LEGAL “homebrew” Hello World, PSP! EBOOT.PBP file by NEM / SAMPU-SYOKUNIN. Additional pictures of Hello World, PSP! are available by clicking HERE under “Attached Images” near the bottom.

Interestingly, this EBOOT.PBP wasn’t put together with the recently-released ELF2PBP command line tool, so either there is a necessary update for this tool, or a different tool was used to create it such as the previously-released PBP Unpacker v0.50. To quote from the author:

Hello World, PSP!
Runs only on PSP 1.00.
Place EBOOT.PBP at directory PSP\GAME\HELLOPSP\ of Memory Stick, and
you will find HELLO WORLD at GAME -> MEMORY STICK of XMB.
To shutdown, hold up power switch several seconds, or remove battery.
All scratch code, compiled by ps2dev toolchain.

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SecurityFocus HOME Infocus: WEP: Dead Again, Part 2

In part one we examined the latest generation of passive WEP cracking tools that use statistical or brute force techniques to recover WEP encryption keys from captured wireless network traffic. This time, in the second and final article, we take a look at active tools that use 802.11 transmissions to attack WEP networks.

If you are interested in Hacking WEP AT ALL, you will want to read both of these articles.

AMD adds Opteron to embedded processor lineup | CNET News.com

Advanced Micro Devices has added another processor line, its high-end Opteron family, as a new option for embedded computing devices such as telecommunications servers and medical imaging systems.

Sony’s NW-E505 Network Walkman - Portable Audio - portableaudio.engadget.com

Has a 3-line OLED display (take that, iPod shuffle!), a built-in FM radio, a battery that should last for as long as 50 hours, and is supposed to come in either blue or silver.