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GeoHot, Famous PS3 and iPhone Hacker To Quit His Facebook Job

Well, apparently George Hotz, the hacker who attacked PlayStation 3 and got into a war with the giant Sony and became famous for releasing a jailbreaking solution for the original iPhone in 2007 seemed to have left behind his hacking days after he accepted a regular full day job at Facebook. The legal battle with Sony ended last April when the two parties signed a settlement. But as the true thrill seeker that Geohot is, he still has in his blood the challenges of high profile hacking.

RedSn0w 0.9.10b5 With iBooks Fix Released By iPhone Dev-Team

iBooks on jailbroken devices had been causing a lot of problem. The iPhone Dev-Team earlier released an update of RedSn0w to tackle most of the issues related to iBooks. Now, @planetbeing of iPhone Dev-Team has updated RedSn0w with yet another iBooks Fix. This update tackles the DRM-related problems in iBooks which caused iBooks to display 10 percent of the images incorrectly on jailbroken devices.

Remote Play Software Hack Allows Streaming PS3 Games On PS Vita

The launch of PlayStation Vita was a disappointment to a lot of gamers and users in many ways. Before the launch, it had been expected that all PS2 games will support Remote Play Feature. However, as it turned out, so was not the case. Instead, Vita was able to stream only such games which already have the Remote Play built-in feature on PSP. And that was indeed a very small list. Naturally, users had to find jailbreaking solutions to this problem, which they actually have found!

iBooks Fix on Redsn0w 0.9.10b4 Is Here

The jailbreak done through earlier version of Redsn0w didn’t support iBooks. In fact, nearly none of the jailbreaking tools were able to support iBooks. However, recently we reported that Pod2g had announced that another iOS hacker had successfully resolved the issue. So, now we have a new version of Redsn0w released by the iPhone Dev Team and it contains a fix for iBooks.

Run Full-Screen iOS Apps On Your Apple TV

With the untethered jailbreak of iOS 5.0.1 by Pod2g, things have been rolling. The untethered jailbreak is being deployed to all iOS devices as well as all the popular software that are used for jailbreaking. The latest in the series of awesome exploits uncovered by this untethered jailbreak is this: now you can run iOS apps on Apple TV!! This is undoubtedly one of the coolest exploits as a result of Pod2g’s hard work.

RedSn0w 0.9.10b3 Updated By iPhone Dev-Team, Resolves Mobile Substrate Problem

Even since the iPhone-Dev Team released Pod2g’s untethered jailbreak of iOS 5.0.1, updates on jailbreak software have been continuously flowing it. The latest update deals with a MobileSubstrate related problem that occurs when redSn0w is re-run over an existing jailbreak. The latest update resolves the problem. Read further for the download link.

Cydia’s Hack May Allow You To Restore Older iOS Version

As we move towards and iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak, the iOS community knows that Apple will soon release iOS 5.0.2 to cover the tracks it left uncovered. This would mean that once you upgrade to iOS 5.0.2, you may be unable to jailbreak the devices, at least for some time. So in case you’d want to restore to older version, Cydia’s Saurik is working on a hack that will let you do just that.

Apple Allows To Port Siri On iPhone 4 Legally

iPhone 4 users have long been craving to use Siri on their devices, a technology which, for now, remains exclusively available on iPhone 4S. With the latest iOS 5.0.1 revision, it is now possible to legally use Siri on iPhone 4. This latest release allows access to encrypted system files that can enable a user to use Siri port on an iPhone 4.