Kevin Butler, Sony's VP of silly mistakes, accidently tweets PS3 exploit key.

George Hotz, the guy who hacked the PS3 earlier this month and who kind of looks like Frodo Baggins, has been issued a fairly water-tight restraining order. This restraining order is, however, just the beginning of legal proceedings and has been issued in order to safe-guard Sony’s interests before the official court hearings get underway at a later date. The …

I stopped posting videos of the multitude of Kinect hacks purely because they’ve become so numerous; the site would be nothing but videos of people doing things they shouldn’t with Microsoft’s motion-sensing doohickey. But this? this is too damned cool to not post. Kinect has now been put to use to control small humanoid robots, of the Gundam ilk. Increase …

This week, Sony’s PS3 security got busted wide open thanks to the public release of the console’s root keys, used as a digital signature to let the machine know that the software it’s attempting to run is legit. Sony are aware of the violation, and have responded with confidence that that can prevent hackers, homebrewers and – of course – …

  One of the bigger gaming news stories this year so far is that George Hotz (or Geohot to the internet at large) , the justifiably ego-driven hacker du jour found, and released the PS3’s root keys. What’s are these root keys, you ask? It’s a set of largely incomprehensible numbers that Sony uses to digitally sign licenced software for …

Greetings fellow nerds and gurus. I’ve come across a gem of a web site that will further branch out on the ongoing topic that is Video Capture with Kinect we’ve been amazed by the past few weeks. We’ve seen some awe inspiring work from Mr. Oliver Kreylos, but did you guys know there’s a ton of other people also playing …

The Kinect camera has been… liberated from the confines of “Xbox-only peripheral”. Some clever people have made open source drivers for the Microsoft device, and they’ve made those drivers free to anyone who wants to download them. Since then, other clever people have managed to do all sorts of fancy things with the device – Geoff posted some videos on …

Right now, Kinect is an Xbox only thing. There’s no doubt that some time in the future, Microsoft will open it up for use on other platforms, most notable the PC. It’s the beginning of the shift away from graphical user interfaces (click click!) towards a more natural user interface (I’m afraid I can’t let you do that Dave). A …