Geohot jailbreaks iPhone 4 |
- Geohot jailbreaks iPhone 4
- Chinese airport shut down after UFO flies overhead
- Judge reduces penalty in Tenenbaum piracy case
| Posted: 10 Jul 2010 11:21 AM PDT  After jailbreaking the iPad in early April, the noted hacker Geohot went on a small hiatus. Today, however, the hacker has posted again to his blog, showing off a picture of the iPhone jailbroken, with access to Cydia, the app store available to users with jailbroken devices. That being said, it does not look like he will be releasing the jailbreak software anytime soon. Says Geohot: "Got one of these in the mail today and figured I'd give it a shot. As far as a release goes, it probably won't happen from me. limera1n is little more than a raindrop on a website; it was never mentioned by me previous to this post. pwned4life is a complete invention of some blogger in a basement somewhere. When I said pwned for life, I was referring to the original iPhone, 3G, and Touch; which of course are, by the aptly named PwnageTool. Again, please don't ask for release dates. Every person that does makes me want to release a little bit less." For those with the new device, and in need of a jailbreak, your best bet is waiting on Comex's Spirit tool, which should be released once the iOS 4.0.1 is launched. 
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| Chinese airport shut down after UFO flies overhead Posted: 10 Jul 2010 11:04 AM PDT  China shut down the Xiaoshan Airport early this morning after a UFO flew through the night sky, leaving a bright trail of light in its wake. Over 30 flights had to be redirected or cancelled. The UFO was first seen flying over the Zhejiang provincial capital Hangzhou. Witnesses called local authorities claiming they had seen a "comet-like" fireball in the sky. Says one witness: "The thing suddenly ran westwards fast, like it was escaping from something." Some experts have already said the sight was debris from U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile, and Chinese officials have stayed mum, given the "military" connection.  
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| Judge reduces penalty in Tenenbaum piracy case Posted: 10 Jul 2010 10:27 AM PDT  A federal judge has significantly reduced the penalty against Joel Tenenbaum, the graduate student that was convicted of sharing 30 unauthorized tracks online. Last July, Tenenbaum was found guilty and told to pay $675,000 to the RIAA and record labels. The judge has now reduced the verdict to $67,500, saying the damages award was "unconstitutionally excessive" given the fact that Tenenbaum made no money off the sharing of the music. Judge Nancy Gertner added the following of the new verdict: The new damages "not only adequately compensates the plaintiffs for the relatively minor harm that Tenenbaum caused them; it sends a strong message that those who exploit peer-to-peer networks to unlawfully download and distribute copyrighted works run the risk of incurring substantial damages awards." $67,500 is three times the statutory minimum. Despite being grateful, Tenenbaum still called the new verdict 'ridiculous:' "I still don't have $70,000 — and $2,000 per song still seems ridiculous in light of the fact that you can buy them for 99 cents on iTunes," Tenenbaum said. "I mean $675,000 was also absurd." The RIAA, unsurprisingly, was not happy: "With this decision, the court has substituted its judgment for that of 10 jurors as well as Congress. For nearly a week, a federal jury carefully considered the issues involved in this case, including the profound harm suffered by the music community precisely because of the activity that the defendant admitted engaging in."
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