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Sony has officially ended production of its PS Vita games console. The handheld console has been gradually phased out over the past few years — and this weekend Sony announced it would be discontinuing the Vita’s final two models. Polygon reports: Son… Continue reading Sony Officially Ends Production of PS Vita
With the next generation of gaming starting to materialize, it’s going to be more than Sony and Microsoft entering the arena.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A man attending this week’s CES show in Las Vegas says that a lidar sensor from startup AEye has permanently damaged the sensor on his $1,998 Sony camera. Earlier this week, roboticist and entrepre… Continue reading Man Says CES Lidar’s Laser Was So Powerful It Wrecked His Camera
How easy is it to bypass the average smartphone’s facial recognition security? In the case of Android, a lot easier than owners may think. Continue reading Facial recognition on 42 Android phones beaten by photo test
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Speaking with Bloomberg last week, Sony’s sensor division boss Satoshi Yoshihara said Sony plans to ramp up production of chips to power front and rear 3D cameras in late summer, responding to demand … Continue reading Sony Promises Better Face Identification Through Depth-Sensing Lasers
Sony, the biggest maker of camera chips used in smartphones, is boosting production of next-generation 3D sensors after getting interest from customers including Apple. From a report: The chips will power front- and rear-facing 3D cameras of models fro… Continue reading Sony Boosts 3D Camera Output After Interest From Phone Makers
Law enforcement may have just ruined what’s become a holiday tradition for cybercriminals who spend Christmas knocking gaming websites offline. The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday officials had seized 15 internet domains that made it possible for web users to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks, which render software inaccessible by flooding targets with fake traffic. The sites involved in the takedown were known as “booter” and “stresser” websites, which enabled users to easily launch DDoS attacks like the kinds that have hit Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox services in recent Christmas seasons. Prosecutors also filed charged against two men with conspiring to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by allegedly operating DDoS-for-hire services known as Downthem and Ampnode. In another case, investigators charged a 23-year-old Pennsylvania man with operating a criminal service that was used to launch more than 50,000 attacks in 2018 alone. “The attack-for-hire websites targeted […]
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By Uzair Amir
Retro remake consoles are the preferred targets of hackers and their latest victim is Sony’s PlayStation Classic. According to reports, the security of PlayStation Classic is substantially affected by weak cryptography and this is why pro… Continue reading PlayStation Classic hacked to become platform-free console
Plug-and-play hardware lacks even basic functional security for crucial bootrom. Continue reading Cryptography failure leads to easy hacking for PlayStation Classic
When Sony announced they planned to release their own classic/mini/plug-n-play system this year, many fans were filled with excitement at the chance to relive countless classic games from the 90s. However, once the actual list of titles were made public that excitement faded as reality set in. So many favorites like Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon were left off the final PlayStation Classic list, no doubt due to the complexity of licensing agreements. That will all soon change now that [YifanLu] cracked the PlayStation Classic live on a Twitch stream thus laying the ground work for swapping-in a “more …read more