Linux For PS3 Is Back!
Ok, we’re back! The Gitbrew gang gets my awesome makers of the year award :)
Gaming
Marine’s Field-Improvised Chess Set From Afghanistan
A Marine’s battlefield chess set made from shells, rounds, and bottle caps.
Sony suffers second data breach
Sony suffers second data breach with theft of 25m more user details @ Technology | guardian.co.uk… The crisis at Sony deepened on Tuesday as it admitted that an extra 25 million customers who played games on its Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) PC games network have had their personal details stolen – and that they were […]
GeoHot on the Sony and 77 million compromised users
GeoHot on the Sony and 77 million compromised users… One of the things I was contemplating back in early January was a PSN alternative, a place for jailbroken consoles to download homebrew and game without messing up anyone else’s experience. Unfortunately events led me off of that path, but gamers, if I had succeeded you […]
PlayStation Network and Qriocity completely compromised
PlayStation Network and Qriocity completely compromised… …an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation […]
How To: Connect an SNES Controller to your Android Phone
Bruno Soares wanted to play a classic Super Nintendo game on his cell phone, but it’s touch screen was unresponsive and just wasn’t cutting it as a controller. Instead of just giving up, he devised a Rube Goldberg-esque system to connect an actual SNES controller to his phone.
Purdue Claims World Record Goldberg Machine
It starts with the Big Bang, re-creates the extinction of the dinosaurs, holds a jousting competition, flips over an album, and simulates World War II, a shuttle launch, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and even the alleged apocalypse in 2012. In its precisely executed review of history, “The Time Machine,” a Rube Goldberg contraption built by members of the Purdue Society of Professional Engineers and Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, incorporates a record-breaking 244 steps—all to water a single flower.
