How the PS3 hypervisor was hacked « root labs rdist

George Hotz, previously known as an iPhone hacker, announced that he hacked the Playstation 3 and then provided exploit details. Various articles have been written about this but none of them appear to have analyzed the actual code. Because of the various conflicting reports, here is some more analysis to help understand the exploit.

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Three years later, the PS3 gets hacked

After over three years on the market, the PlayStation 3 has finally been hacked. Famous iPhone hacker George Hotz, aka “GeoHot”, has become the first to achieve the feat, though what this means for the PS3 modding community remains to be seen.

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Photoshop Fail: 15 Hilariously Botched Images | Design + Ideas on WU

Forget silly things like human anatomy and the laws of physics. When it comes to Photoshop, reality needn’t apply – just clone, rotate, skew, blur and hope nobody notices.

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Ditch the Granny Knot to Tie Your Shoes More Efficiently – Knots – Lifehacker

The difference between shoes tied with a balanced, neat, and self-tightening knot versus those tied with an unbalanced, sloppy, and loose knot, is all in how you make your first loop.

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PayPal vs Fake PayPal: Can You Tell the Difference? [PIC]

Back in October, we wrote about a new policy approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN that will allow non-Latin domain names to be registered in early to mid 2010. This is really exciting for Internet users in areas that use non-Latin alphabets like Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Cyrillic, who have spent the last fifteen years without full domain opportunities.

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