Xbox 360 Reset Glitch Hack – Unsigned Code on current Kernels incl. X360 SLIM

You thought it wouldn’t be possible?
You thought there are only (a few) JTAGs or total overpriced Devkits to run unsigned Code?

GliGli & Tiros are proving the opposite! They developed a Hack which glitches all recent Xbox360 Kernels to run unsigned Code on.

Read on for the details…

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Motorola Droid 3 Teardown

The Motorola Droid 3 has landed on our doorstep, and no new gadget would be complete without a proper iFixit teardown.

View it here…

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Keynote: The Hidden Costs of Closed Source Software

John Hall’s presentation at CeBit Open Source, March 2, 2011.

View the presentation…

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Ubuntu opts for LibreOffice over Oracle’s OpenOffice

The Ubuntu developers met last week in Dallas to make final design decisions about the popular Linux distribution’s features and decided to use LibreOffice for its office suite.

This comes as no surprise to Ubuntu watchers. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth told me back when LibreOffice developers were forking away from Oracle’s OpenOffice had told me that, “The Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document Foundation in future releases of Ubuntu.” It wasn’t a sure thing though that Ubuntu 11.04, aka Natty Narwhal, due out on April 28th, would have LibreOffice. It is now.

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Android Trojan Captures Credit Card Details

A team of security researchers has created a proof-of-concept Trojan for Android handsets that is capable of listening out for credit card numbers – typed or spoken – and relaying them back to the application’s creator.

The team, comprised of Roman Schlegel from the City University of Hong Kong and Kehuan Zhang, Xiaoyong Zhou, Mehool Intwala, Apu Kapadia, and Xiao Feng Wang from the Indiana University Bloomington, call their creation ‘Soundminer’ – and its implications are far-reaching.

Read on…

Watch the demo of the trojan:

[Nice. But how do you get this app installed on the phone in the first place? Are not all apps in the Android marketplace vetted before being accepted?]

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