Geohot promised a workaround for Sony's removal of the "install other OS" feature in PS3 firmware 3.21 and now Geohot has delivered.

Geohot even says that the custom firmware might actually enable the other OS feature on the PS3 Slim, but he hasn't yet had a chance to try it out.

A criminal inquiry is under way in France to find the origin of internet rumours that President Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, his wife, were having affairs.

Claims that Mr Sarkozy was having an affair with Chantal Jouanno, the Ecology Minister, and Ms Bruni with Benjamin Biolay, a singer, circulated on Twitter in February.

When Mr Sarkozy complained, the blogger was sacked and Michael Amand, the director of the site, was forced to resign.

As his crawler worked, it started collecting a bunch of interesting data, and so he set up a website to let people explore some of this (again, public) data.

He noted that if others (such as professional researchers) wanted to dig into the data, he would let them access a version of the data set (with identifying info stripped).

"The attorney said that they were just about to sue me into oblivion, but in light of my previous good relationship with their security team, they'd give me one chance to stop the process."

South Korea said the operating system is aimed at monitoring user activity.

The Red Star operating system uses a popular Korean folk song as its start-up music and numbers years using a calendar which starts counting from the birth of state founder Kim Il-sung, making 2010 the 99th year.

By Sunday afternoon, one day after its launch, MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev-Team announced that he had cracked the iPad using security flaws that were left over from the previous iteration of the iPhone OS, iPhone 3.1.3.

It's unclear how easily the Spirit variation could be made into an automated program, though Apple generally frowns upon jailbreaking and is likely to patch up the relevant holes in the near future.

The group claims that the project is "held up at Microsoft" and it's currently "unknown" when the release will receive its "final go ahead."

"Due to the demands placed upon us by industry lawyers to release the Mechwarrior 4 Free release we were forced to insure our Studio at a premium rate to meet the Microsoft standard," reads the announcement, adding that group's server fund has "run dry" and is currently being paid directly by staff.

There's just one problem - most of us can't, thanks to ongoing issues with Ubisoft's controversial new "always online" DRM.

On top of the general server error, individual users are reporting various instances of repeated crashes, freezing and hanging that prevent play, and which also appear to be network-related.

The Assassin's Creed II PC launch was plagued by bad press following DRM authentication failures, which Ubi put down to "attacks".

One of the more troubling patent rulings in the past year involved a Canadian company, i4i, that held a patent (5,787,449) that appears to broadly (very broadly) cover editing a custom XML document, separate from the presentation layer of a document.

Microsoft appealed to have the case reheard by the full panel of judges at CAFC, but that's now been rejected as well.

The new variety is named Infinity for its 'never-ending' burn, which cannot be quelled by even the best antidote, milk.

Tests by Warwick University rate Infinity at 1,067,286 on the Scoville Scale which is used to measure the heat of peppers.

The former record-holder, the Indian Bhut Jolokia, is 1,041,427. A jalapeno measures just 2,500 to 5,000. Weapons-grade pepper spray is 2,000,000.

The little girl walked along the 130 metre long high wire above six hungry Siberian tigers at Changzhou Yancheng Zoo in Jiangsu province.

The little girl walked along the wire without even a pole, using just her arms for balance, as the tigers prowled below. One even jumped up towards her.