Hasta La Gadget!

Well, that didn’t take long. Greenpois0n jailbroke the new Apple TV just yesterday, and PwnageTool 4.1 this afternoon, and we’ve already got what appears to be the first custom software successfully running on the device. As you can see, it’s a simple weather app, designed by a tiny software firm called nitoTV, but it’s a harbinger of things to come when developers get cracking on the Apple TV in earnest. See a picture of nitoTV’s custom launcher after the break, while your subconscious frantically tries to figure out what the four cities in the above pic could possibly have in common.

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Looking for a jailbreak for your iPod touch or iPhone running iOS 4.1? Your chariot is named limera1n — assuming you’re willing to risk your device on a software developer showdown. The infamous Geohot just upstaged the iPhone Dev Team and Chronic Dev Team by releasing a reportedly buggy beta exploit of his own, which you can find at our download link immediately below. It only works on Windows at the moment, hacks only official releases and iPhone 3GS isn’t supported right now, and it claims to be an unpatchable, untethered release for those of you who appreciate what those terms mean.

As you can imagine, rival developers aren’t terribly happy that Geohot’s back in the limelight. MuscleNerd (of the iPhone Dev Team) claims that limera1n will re-lock iPhones that were unlocked by his team’s ultrasn0w software, and recommends you skip limera1n, but the main reason the iOS hacking community is angry at Geohot is because if more than one exploit is released simultaneously, Apple can fix them both in one fell swoop. By releasing first, Geohot has allegedly forced other teams to decide between the good of iPhone users over the short term (by releasing a different, more stable exploit) or over the long term (by saving their exploit for future use) and so far it looks like both teams have chosen to prolong the fight — the iPhone Dev Team is asking folks to withhold its Shatter exploit, and Chronic Dev Team says it will modify its greenpois0n jailbreak to use Geohot’s hack instead. What a weird, wild world we live in.

Update: How might this work on an iPad, given that beta versions of iOS (like 4.2) aren’t currently supported? Good question. We’ve struck all references to iPad accordingly, until the powers that be figure it out.

Update 2: Video after the break! Also, we’re hearing that some folks have jailbroken their iPads successfully with limera1n, and we personally got it working quickly on a pair of iPhones with iOS 4.1… but one of the two was missing icons upon restart and didn’t regain App Store, Maps, Game Center and Calendar even after a restore. Be careful, now!

Sam Sheffer contributed to this report.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Limera1n jailbreaks the iPhone and iPod touch running iOS 4.1, angers dev community and neuters one of our phones (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Benjamin “Ben Heck” Heckendorn popped by the PCMag offices today to talk up his brand new Element14 Web series, The Ben Heck Show. Those of who are familiar with Heck’s work (which I assume applies to a large chunk of the folk who regularly go out of their way to read gadget blogs) pretty much know what you’re in for–mods, mods, mods (and not the kind on scooters).

Heck’s best know for his console mods, of course–making portable versions of the Atari 2600, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, and newer systems like the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii.

Heck’s mods–and his new show–go beyond that, however. In the first episode, Heck modifies an Xbox 360 controller for a gamer who lost control of one of his hands. In fact, Heck told Gearlog that he would love to get into the prosthetics field at some point.

As for future shows? A multi-episode series showing users how to build their own pinball machine? Yes please.

Episode two debuts next week. Heck promises lots more explosions to come. Check out the first episode, after the jump.

If you live in the New York area, meanwhile, you can meet Heck at the Maker Faire in Queens this weekend.

After last week’s Apple announcements, your previous-gen iPod probably isn’t looking so hot. Cheer up! We’ve got five mods that’ll breathe new life into the little guy, so you don’t have to feel guilty about picking up a shiny replacement. More »

Despite a temporary victory stopping PS Jailbreak sales in Australia, Sony’s PS3 headaches are far from over. With PS Jailbreak’s code in the wild, lawsuits may be too little too late.

PSGroove claims to be an open source PS Jailbreak. Users download the code and install it on an AT90USBkey or Teensy++ USB development board to get the modchip up and running.

While the PSGroove is not as easy as the PS Jailbreak for the average gamer, but an entrepreneurial hacker can easy sell pre-assembled PSGroove kits to the average Joe PS3.

A USB drive, PS Jailbreak lets you run unsigned software, including legitimate backups, on the PS3. You can run the backups from the internal hard disk drive, or use PS Jailbreak to backup the games to external storage devices. Once saved, you can run the games from the external drive as well. Despite the lawsuit in Australia, PS Jailbreak is already available in Canada, US, and Europe.

With this code, you don’t even need the original game disc anymore to play. Imagine emulators to the PS3. The possibilities are endless. What’s next, Sony?

via PS3Hax