Following my post the other day on jailbreaking the iPhone, I've been getting a lot of questions from readers related to jailbreaking. These Q&A is aimed at the newbies to jailbreaking, so if you're ...

The iPad has recently been jailbroken. Even if you’ve held off jailbreaking your other iPhone OS devices, the iPad’s substantially faster hardware and difficult-to-define “3rd device” role make the ...

Many smartphone and tablet users, whether on the iPhone or Android, prefer to jailbreak or root their devices in order to better customize them. But not all device makers agree with these practices, ...

Editors' note: This is a guest column. See Larry Downes' bio below. The U.S. Copyright Office on Monday granted an exemption to users who install unapproved ...

To help answer some questions about this week's Copyright Office announcement regarding the legality of so-called cell phone jailbreaking, or the modification of the ...

Have you ever looked at someone’s iPhone home screen, and noticed that it has five icons in the dock? Or maybe you’ve seen a classic console emulator running on an iPad? Don’t go looking for these ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

The whole notion of DRM took a tiny bashing today as users’ rights won out over those of copyright holders. First up: Jailbreaking iPhones is now legal. Jailbreaking your iPhone (hacking it to “free” ...

I know why you’re excited: You can’t wait for your iDevice to update to iOS 6.1 which was just released. Now Siri will be able to misunderstand what movie you want to see and present you with a link ...

"Jail" refers to file system limitations put in place by Apple on standard iPhones. These limitations restrict iPhone read and write access to just a small part of the media partition. You cannot ...

U.S. government says iPhone jailbreak is legal, over Apple's objections. July 27, 2010— -- Federal regulators lifted a cloud of uncertainty when they announced it was lawful to hack or "jailbreak ...

A jailbreaking technique called "Skeleton Key" lets users persuade OpenAI's GPT 3.5 into giving them the recipe for all kind of dangerous things.