9w ago - Following up on his previous update and Flat_z's release earlier today, Spanish PlayStation 3 developer MiralaTijera has now made available the PS2 Classics keys and Cobra 6.0 4.30 PS3 CFW payload from the DRM-infected USB dongle by the notorious scene profiteers.

Download: PS2 Classics Keys / Cobra 6.0 4.30 PS3 CFW Payload (via pastie.org/private/ugnucdtw6dcb0bjjhxbq) / Cobra 6.0 4.30 PS3 CFW Payload (Mirror)

For those naive, it's no coincidence these PS2 keys and Cobra payload are just now mysteriously being released as the PS3 capitalistic pigs Max Louarn, Paul Owen and GaryOpa ready their next ripoff product for market this month and (once again) their True...

10w ago - Today the XCM Team has officially introduced their new XCM USB Hot and Cold Coaster for PCs and car use.

Below are the details from their official site, as follows:

This device is for computer peripherals or car to heat or cool drinks via USB power cord, able to drink cold drinks in hot summer days or hot drinks in chilly winter, no matter inside the car or next to the computer, this device can provide you the excellent lifestyle.

Product Functions:

1. Using low voltage and universal USB power, it is safe and convenient, excellent for using at home, office and on board.

2. Built in the heating and cooling function, work on any weather or season.

3. Built in the double color LED (Red LED – Heating, Blue LED- Cooling)

4. Built in adjustable tap to hold the beverage not to spill.

5. Double USB power supply, enhance the efficiency.

6. Unique design-Multi-curvature arc conduction plate for better conductive efficiency.

7. Built in semiconductor refrigeration and PTC heating component

22w ago - Following up on the PS3UserCheat and True Blue unnecessary DRM-infected dongles being hacked alongside zadow28's work, today PlayStation 3 developer oct0xor shared a video of his OpenCobra Payload which aims to render the current Cobra USB dongle from Max Louarn useless.

Below are the details from his blog, as follows: "First I am going to say that this is not going to be an article, just a first blog post and some info about my recent project.

Finally I got my hands on cobra it was quite a lot of time since I touched this last time. There was s good things happened since then eg. I reverse engineered usercheat and...

30w ago - Following up on the PS3 DEX Open BDEMU HDD Manager and Mac OS X Switcher for PS3 BDEmu Drives, today Mgenecke has released a PS3 DEX Image Manager for USB drives he calls PS3EMUTool Alpha along with some updates below.

Download: PS3EmuTool Alpha / PS3EmuTool Build 121022-1233 / PS3EmuTool Build 121025-0139 / PS3EmuTool Build 121026-0144 / PS3EmuTool X2.00

To quote: Hi, I have written a little program, that manages your Images on a DEX-Image-USB-Drive; It's on "Alpha", means it can be better, but I think this program does it's work. Please read manual_en.txt. I hope it's useful.

Today I release a tool for your PS3-BDEMU-Disk: .Net 4.0 and VC2010Redist have to be installed (I think, this is installed on the most PC's) and you have to run it as administrator. Try it, test it an reply.

Update 121022-1233:

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38w ago - Following up on the previous update, today I am releasing my True Blue USB dongle PS3 ELF dumper which works with any PlayStation 3 Firmware greater than 3.56 to dump the encrypted TB EBOOT / ELF files once they are loaded.

Download: True Blue USB Dongle PS3 ELF Dumper / True Blue USB Dongle PS3 ELF Dumper (Mirror) / True Blue USB Dongle PS3 ELF Dumper (Mirror #2) / True Blue USB Dongle PS3 ELF Dumper (Mirror #3) / True Blue USB Dongle PS3 ELF Dumper (Mirror #4) / True Blue USB Dongle PS3 ELF Dumper (Mirror #5) / True Blue USB Dongle PS3 ELF Dumper (Mirror #6) / True Blue USB Dongle PS3 ELF Dumper Source Code / True Blue USB Dongle PS3 ELF Dumper Source Code (Mirror) / UTEBOOT...