A 19-year old teenager named Ryan Cleary has been arrested in Essex, UK after authorities believed he was involved in a number of denial-of-service attacks and other hacks. The police have also taken a computer that may be related to the attacks. Authorities will go over the contents of the computer to find more possible evidence to use against the teen.

The internet was shocked to hear that the infamous PS3 hacker George Hotz went to South America in the middle of his litigation with Sony. To be fair, Hotz technically wasn’t fleeing the country to escape his legal troubles. His actions however, tend to work against him more than anything. Since the story was first reported, Hotz has confirmed through his blog that he is currently in South America on spring break.

George Hotz really doesn’t appear to be taking his legal troubles with Sony very seriously. This was evidenced in his freestyle rap that made its rounds throughout the internet last month. Sony is currently trying to convince the court that California is the proper state to hold its trial instead of Hotz’s state of New Jersey. Lawyers on both sides have been trying to get an argumentative advantage over the other, but it’ll be hard to defend why Hotz recently decided to pick up and head to South America.

Sony is serious you guys. It does not want anyone circumventing the PS3′s security measures. It especially doesn’t want anyone telling the whole world how to do it themselves. Sony has already gotten court orders to keep George Hotz from telling the internet how he hacked the PS3. Sony is also taking down anything it can find that links to hacking procedures. The company’s latest act of technology policing occurred in Germany, where police and someone from Sony participated in a raid on a hacker’s home.

Frogster, a publisher of MMORPGs, has come under attack by a hacker who uses the forum handle Augustus87. The hacker claims to have stolen the account data of 3.5 million Frogster users and is threatening to release all the data if their demands aren’t met within two weeks. Log-in data for 2,100 users has already been released. Augustus87 claims to have hacked and verified 500,000 of the accounts in their possession.

If you have a Kinect, are talented in reverse-engineering technology, and are not afraid of possibly being arrested, then you may be able to earn some cash. New York company Adafruit Industries is offering a reward of $2,000 to the first person who can deliver them its open-source drivers.

On page 42 of the April 2008 issue of Wired magazine is a photo featuring six stereotypical Geeks: a Fanboy, Music Geek, Gamer, Gadget Guy, Hacker and Otaku. Each over-generalized category is exemplified by a person modeling what Wired deems appropriate garb and a brief description that includes disposition, beliefs and turn-ons.

Here’s the unusually derogatory description Wired writer/contributor, Troy Brownfield, writes of Gamers…

Dark Alex, infamous un-locker of Sony’s PSP, has decided to end his firmware development for the platform. The following message was left on his site:

Bye, scene.I’ve decided to cease OE development, and leave PSP scene.The reasons are various.One of them is the time it consumes, which i’m losing from other things.The other is related to my security. I didn’t like Sony menaces to PS3 hackers.I think it is better to leave now rather than end paying the consequences.