George Hotz - Wikipedia
George Francis Hotz (born October 2, 1989), alias geohot, is an American security hacker, entrepreneur,[1] and software engineer. He is known for developing iOS jailbreaks,[2][3] reverse engineering the PlayStation 3, and for the subsequent lawsuit brought against him by Sony. Since September 2015, he has been working on his vehicle automation machine learning company comma.ai.[4] Since November 2022, Hotz has been working on tinygrad, a deep learning framework. He attended the Academy for Engineering and Design Technology at the Bergen County Academies, a magnet public high school in Hackensack, New Jersey.[5] Hotz is an alumnus of the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth program.[6] Hotz also briefly attended Rochester Institute of Technology[7] and Carnegie Mellon University. In August 2007, seventeen-year-old George Hotz became the first person reported to remove the SIM lock on an iPhone.[8][9][10][11] He traded his second unlocked 8 GB iPhone to Terry Daidone, the founder of C
George Hotz - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American software engineer George Hotz Hotz in 2016 Born George Francis Hotz ( 1989-10-02 ) October 2, 1989 (age 36) Glen Rock, New Jersey , U.S. Other names geohot, tomcr00se Years active 2007–present Known for • Jailbreaking • Comma.ai and openpilot • Tinygrad Website Official website George Francis Hotz (born October 2, 1989), alias geohot , is an American security hacker , entrepreneur, [ 1 ] and software engineer . He is known for developing iOS jailbreaks , [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
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