Now that the new line of PS3s have lost the support for installing Linux, Sony must've felt the need to provide an upgrade for its built-in browser. Hot and fresh out of the rumor mill: Sony is in talks with Mozilla about adding Firefox support for the PS3.

Back in the old days, the hand of justice used sophisticated, thousand-dollar computers to crack down on sickos on the internet. Although expensive, it's really a small price to pay to put those freaks behind bars. But thanks to the PS3, all they have to spend now is a few hundred dollars. Find out how.

It looks like Sony is extending their support for schools and universities with courses geared towards computer engineering and programming. At the Develop Conference 2009, SCEE R&D's Sarah Lemarie revealed that a PS3 dev kit designed for academic use is in the works.

Dashhacker has finally released a public beta for Open Remote Play, an app that lets you access the PS3's Remote Play feature from your laptop, desktop, or even your phone. This is good news, but only for Mac users as the beta is currently only for Mac OS X. Non-Mac users need not worry, though, as the dev says that the API and the Windows version will be released soon.

Download: Open Remote Play v1.0 Beta for Mac OS X

Truth be told, I haven't really kept up with Dashhacker's progress on his reverse engineering of the PS3's Remote Play feature. It's still good to hear that he's made great strides towards finally releasing a usable app, though. There's even talk of an Open Remote Play beta out by Friday.

Linux may be taboo for a lot of us, but you'd better be prepared to give it a shot to try out this impressive trick. Using Yellow Dog Linux on the PlayStation 3, efaustus9 used Qemu to emulate Windows 95 on the platform, allowing him to run StarCraft.

Don't expect to run Crysis with this setup though. Watch a vid of StarCraft running on the PS3 after the link.

If you're tired of TVersity, or are simply looking for a good program to stream media files to your PlayStation 3, then you can try this app out. PS3 Media Server is a program from shagrath that allows you to transcode and stream media from your PC to your console.

Download: PS3 Media Server v1.04 (Linux)
Download: PS3 Media Server v1.04 (Mac OS X)
Download: PS3 Media Server v1.04 (Windows)

StreetskaterFU has released another update for his Linux USB Logger homebrew tool. A couple of new features have been added in this release along with a new 32-bit version. The changelog for Linux USB Logger v 0.6 is available at the full article.


Download: Linux USB Logger 0.6 (32-bit)
Download: Linux USB Logger 0.6 (64-bit)

It looks like homebrew possibilities on the PS3 have yet to die out. StreetskaterFU has informed us that he has released a USB logger that could help devs get more info on the USB traffic of a PSP or PS3 port. Hit the full article for details.

Good news for those who use Linux on their PlayStation 3s!  Yellow Dog Linux v6.1 has been released, marking the final release from Terra Soft, and the first by Fixstars. Version 6.1 an updated Firefox and OpenOffice.org, and features ps3vram functionality, enabling the use of PS3 video RAM for temporary storage or swap.

More details after the link.