Owners of the new 2012 iPad barely had time to get their new tablets out of the box before we got news of the first jailbreak working on the model. We've seen some evidence from devs showing that such feats are within reach, but we haven't had a public release just yet. Notable iOS guru pod2g took to Twitter earlier today to update anxious users on his own work towards such a goal, and why we might not be seeing any release in the immediate future. The Chronic Dev Team has reportedly made some progress towards coming up with a userland jailbreak, but its work is incomplete. Just finding ...

So if you're on the list of people that cringed their teeth when they hit the Install button of the OTA upgrade of iOS 5.1 and forgot all about their Jailbreak, you might be in luck. The Dev-Team has just updated RedN0w to version 0.9.10b6 and it brings you the option of getting a tethered jailbreak of your device as long as it doesn't run on an A5 chip (Sorry iPhone 4S and iPad2 readers). There's nothing hot about a tethered jailbreak of any iOS device, but if you lost it by mistake, you're sadly out of of choices. Make sure you download the version of Redsn0w for either your Mac or PC ...

A couple years ago, the smartphone user community scored a major victory in the United States when the Copyright Office added jailbreaking phones to the list of anti-circumvention exemptions allowed under the DMCA. While a manufacturer could still use jailbreaking as an excuse to void your warranty, there was no longer any doubt that the owners of phones could now legally modify them is such a manner. Problem is, the exemptions granted under the Act aren't permanent (though the restrictions sure as heck are), requiring petitions to renew them every three years. It's just about time to ...

Last week, after following the progress of the efforts to bring an untethered jailbreak to Apple hardware based around its new A5 chip, we finally saw the triumphant arrival of Absinthe, the first such tool to manage the feat. While a huge accomplishment in-and-of itself, some users reported buggy behavior from the tool's initial release. Just a couple days later now, a new version is out, available for both Mac and Windows platforms and fixing a few of those bugs. Specific problems targeted in this bugfix release include a problem where you'd see all your apps' icons whited-out following ...

We've been keeping a close eye on the recent work of pod2g as he attempted to bring the iOS community some new jailbreak tools, supporting both the latest hardware and iOS revision. Tools for classic devices didn't take too long to deliver, but coming up with something that would work on Apple's new A5 chips, the ones at the heart of the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S, proved more difficult. There's power in numbers, so pod2g recruited some of the biggest names from over the years in the iOS world for help. Today he's posted an update of their progress, and it sounds like a release is nearly here. ...

Over the course of the past month, we've seen tons of progress towards developing jailbreaks for the latest iPhone hardware and software. Near the end of December, an untethered jailbreak for older Apple devices running iOS 5.0.1 became available, but the exploit wasn't yet ready for jailbreaking models built around A5 chips, like the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S. Developer pod2g has been keeping us all updated on his progress towards finally tackling that mission, informing us about the new challenges he faced going up against dual-core architecture. It now looks like everything's very nearly ...

Last week, we heard whispers of the coming arrival of a new jailbreak for Windows Phone devices. All we knew at the time was that it was supposed to be an alternative to paying the $9 required for a Chevron Labs unlock. Today, details of the hack were announced, and while it won't replace existing unlocks, it does provide an easy way to expand the usefulness of unlocked hardware. The WindowBreak project has released a tool for conveniently performing an interop unlock on a handset already set up for development thanks to an AppHub or Chevron Labs unlock (Update: the author has clarified ...

It was about a week ago that we heard about progress towards an untethered jailbreak for Apple devices running iOS 5. The developer of the tool, pod2g, noted that he expected work on adapting the jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 to be relatively simple, and was turning to work on it. We didn't have any idea back then when he might hope to complete his work, but pod2g has published a new post today updating as all on his progress, and it looks like we could see a release any day now. The jailbreak is functional on hardware with A4 chips, running iOS 5.0.1. There's still a little work to be done ...