News from Dark Alex (king of custom firmware and PSP hacking in general) has confirmed that the new PSP-3000 (PSP Brite) will not be hackable when it becomes available.

- DC7 does NOT work. (Probably already assumed by most of you)
- 3000 version probably has the same CPU as 88v3, or with the same hashes checks made on this second.

What does this mean – well, if you are buying a new PSP-3000 model, don’t expect to be playing any homebrew games or apps on it for a while. Until a new potential exploit is discovered, the PSP-3000 will only be able to use Sony sanctioned games and applications.

This may also restore some developer confidence that their games are not going to be pirated within hours of being released. Expect to see new games released with minimum firmware requirements and potential checks against hardware versions.

The guys over at PSPoste have released a new version (beta 7) of their fantastic portable email client.

Changelog as follows -

• Support more IR keyboards by using the pspirkeyb library, see PSPoste/Data/pspirkeyb/ for configuration of your keyboard.
• Better random number generation for TLS based connections, acknowledgements to Zx81 for his work on PSPSSH and Theodore Tso for the original RNG work.
• On first start, users will be prompted to press buttons randomly to generate the random seed file.
• Use the extra RAM of the PSP Slim.
• Fix a crash when opening the settings window when no network connections are defined.
• Fix another crash opening the settings window that would occur randomly.
• Fix a bug in the logging mechanism that meant errors and output weren’t properly being written out to the log files.
• Fix a problem connecting using a manually configured WPA connection.
• Make the cursor visible at all times while typing (as opposed to blinking throughout).
• Explicitly load the IrDA module so IR Keyboards work on firmwares > 3.03OE.
• Adjust heap and thread stack sizes.
• Fix some memory leaks and uninitialzed variables.
• Set the timezone to whatever the PSP has configured.

Grab the file from PSPoste