{"id":5679,"date":"2010-03-30T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ps3-firmware-update-v3-21-incoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/5679-ps3-firmware-update-v3-21-incoming","title":{"rendered":"PS3 firmware update v3.21 incoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has announced via the official<a href=\"http:\/\/www.n4g.com\/ClickOut.aspx?ObjID=498989\" target=\"_blank\"> PlayStation Blog <\/a>that the next PS3 firmware update will be released via the PlayStation Network on April 1.<\/p>\n<p>The update will remove the ability to operate Linux on old PS3 &ldquo;fat&rdquo; consoles. It is thought that Linux funtioonality presents a security risk, as it allows potential hackers access to core software components in the console.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there is the option to not download the update, but then users will forfeit all access to the PlayStation Network.<\/p>\n<p>They may will also have problems with the following:<\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp; Playback of PS3 software titles or Blu-ray Disc videos that require PS3 system software version 3.21 or later <br \/>&bull;&nbsp; Playback of copyright-protected videos that are stored on a media server (when DTCP-IP is enabled under Settings) <br \/>&bull;&nbsp; Use of new features and improvements that are available on PS3 system software 3.21 or later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update removes Linux support, adds nothing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}