If you’re affected by the PS3 Time bug error, let’s just see how many that really is. Vote on the twtpoll below.
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If you have a PS3 slim, then you’re considered one of the lucky ones. All Sony PS3 users other than the slim owners, can’t connect to the PSN network. All consoles are getting a 8001050F error. Which is stopping them from playing on the network, both local and on the PSN.
Update from the PlayStation.Blog [Read More]
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According to the PlayStation senior VP, Peter Dille, the oportunity of PlayStation 2 games joining the “PS One Classics” line comes just a bit closer to reality. In an interview with IGN< Dille says the folks at PlayStation are “working really hard on” bringing more PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games to the PlayStation Store, not quite an official announcement, but another glimmer of hope.
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So what happens when the Air Force connects 2,000 PS3’s? You get a massive supercomputer, or, a kickass LAN Party, either way.
The Air Force Research Laboratory has been given a $2 million to build a Playstation 3 cluster out of about 2,000 PS3s. Their goal? To create a Neuromorphic system designed to find examples of images stored in a massive database using systems that “mimic human nervous systems.”
Keeping with the off-the-shelf mentality, the Air Force is using metal shelves found at most department stores to house the PS3 cluster. They are also using Linux, which is a free, open source operating system.
The system will use 300 to 320 kilowatts at full bore and about 10 percent to 30 percent of that in standby, when most supercomputers are using 5 megawatts, Linderman said. However, much of the time the cluster will only be running the nodes it needs and it will be turned off when not in use.
via CrunchGear
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If you feel left out that Rockstar Games hasn’t been so good to you, rejoice my friends. GTA IV: Episodes from Liberty City will be coming to the PS3 and PC beginning March 30th. While some are happy about this news, some in the community are still upset that it’s taken so long for the extra episodes in GTA IV to come to other consoles other than the Xbox 360. [Read More]
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If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on the exploit for the PS3, will, here you go. You now are able to download the exploit, and start finding out what the PS3 can really do.
He titles his post, “Here’s your silver platter.”
In the interest of openness, I’ve decided to release the exploit. Hopefully, this will ignite the PS3 scene, and you will organize and figure out how to use this to do practical things, like the iPhone when jailbreaks were first released. I have a life to get back to and can’t keep working on this all day and night.
Download the PS3 exploit here. http://geohot.com/ps3_exploit.zip
Read his post in detail here. http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/2010/01/heres-your-silver-platter.html
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We’ll, should be no surpise here, George Hotz just updated his blog again, this time, going more into detail about the code he’s using. To download the snipped used by George Hotz, click the following link. http://pastie.org/795371
He starts his post of by saying “A level playing field.”
Right now, I’m playing with the isolated SPEs, trying to get metldr to load from OtherOS. Interesting thing, I am not using the exploit. I always assumed the enable isolation mode register was hypervisor privileged. It’s not, it’s kernel privileged, which means using hypervisor calls you can all get to it. So, get to hacking. Here is the code I am playing with.
Read his full post here. http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/2010/01/level-playing-field.html
volatile int init_module() {
unsigned long priv2_addr, problem_phys, local_store_phys, context_addr, shadow_addr, spe_id, vas;
lv1_get_virtual_address_space_id_of_ppe(0, &vas);
printk(KERN_ERR "die kernel %d\n", lv1_destruct_logical_spe(0xb));
printk(KERN_ERR "construct SPE: %d\n", lv1_construct_logical_spe(0x10,0x10,0x10,0x10,0x10, vas, 0, &priv2_addr, &problem_phys, &local_store_phys, &context_addr, &shadow_addr, &spe_id));
boom_lpar(shadow_addr);
printk(KERN_ERR "make SPE id: %d\n", spe_id);
printk(KERN_ERR "enable SPE: %d\n", lv1_enable_logical_spe(spe_id, 0));
unsigned long *problem_mapped, *privileged_mapped, *local_mapped;
problem_mapped =__ioremap((unsigned long)problem_phys, 0x20000, PAGE_SHARED_X);
privileged_mapped =__ioremap((unsigned long)priv2_addr, 0x20000, PAGE_SHARED_X);
local_mapped =__ioremap((unsigned long)local_store_phys, 0x40000, PAGE_SHARED_X);
printk(KERN_ERR "status: %lx\n", problem_mapped[0x4020/8]);
printk(KERN_ERR "privileged control: %lx\n", privileged_mapped[0x4040/8]);
privileged_mapped[0x4040/8] |= 4;
printk(KERN_ERR "privileged control: %lx\n", privileged_mapped[0x4040/8]);
struct file* fd;
mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
fd = filp_open("/work/pwned/metldr", O_RDONLY, 0);
if(!IS_ERR(fd)) {
printk(KERN_ERR "file is open\n");
printk(KERN_ERR "read %d\n", fd->f_op->read(fd, local_mapped, 0x40000, &fd->f_pos));
filp_close(fd, NULL);
} else {
printk(KERN_ERR "file open failed!!!!\n");
}
set_fs(old_fs);
printk(KERN_ERR "read in metldr\n");
problem_mapped[0x4018/8] |= 3;
int i;
for(i=0;i<0x20;i++) {
printk(KERN_ERR "status: %lx\n", problem_mapped[0x4020/8]);
}
printk(KERN_ERR "destruct SPE: %d\n", lv1_destruct_logical_spe(spe_id));
return 0;
}
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George Hotz is still hard at it, hacking the Sony Playstation 3, this time, he goes a little more into detail as to what he has done, and where this is going. The beginning of the post, he stresses the against the use of piracy, and what to and what not to expect. [Read More]
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Apparently so. A guy by the name of George Hotz (Geohot), who is also known for the famous iPhone Jailbreak hack, has now moved onto bigger and better things. The Playstation 3. The PS3 has been around now roughly 3 years, without any true exploits. Now that is all about to change.
Quoted from GeoHotPS3
I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1. I’ve also dumped the NAND without removing it or a modchip.
3 years, 2 months, 11 days…thats a pretty secure system
Took 5 weeks, 3 in Boston, 2 here, very simple hardware cleverly applied, and some not so simple software.
Shout out to George Kharrat from iPhoneMod Brasil for giving me this PS3 a year and a half ago to hack. Sorry it took me so long
As far as the exploit goes, I’m not revealing it yet. The theory isn’t really patchable, but they can make implementations much harder. Also, for obvious reasons I can’t post dumps. I’m hoping to find the decryption keys and post them, but they may be embedded in hardware. Hopefully keys are setup like the iPhone’s KBAG.
A lot more to come…follow @geohot on twitter
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Rockstar Games and GameStop have teamed up to offer an exclusive for the upcoming game Red Dead Redemption for the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3.
Players can vote to choose an outfit that will be earned by completing a set of in-game challenges. Once the challenges are completed and the outfit is unlocked, the outfit will uniquely affect how the surrounding world responds to the game’s main man, John Marston.
“We’re privileged to have fans that are just as passionate about our games as we are,” said Alex Moulle-Berteaux, head of marketing for Rockstar Games. “Having fans choose their own pre-order bonus is a unique way to let them be a part of Red Dead Redemption.”
During January, new information about the challenges, outfits, and the effect it has in-game will be revealed.
Game’s out in April.
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