New firmware 2.42 is causing PS3 Failure

http://kotaku.com/5033332/users-report-firmware-242-causing-ps3-failure

Mine froze on me 3 times today.

Once while playing Soul Calibur 4. I got a message during the game, I paused, and went to check the message. When I came back, the game was stuck

Twice, when I was in the middle of Stranglehold, I shot down a door, walked in, and the game stopped right there, yet you could hear in the background, people speaking and a car driving away...

Third, is when I was downloading a demo and it beeped and shut off automatically.

Could these problems be related to the firmware?

Um... good thing I've been to lazy to download it if that's the case. :lol But geez... Seems like every other patch that comes out causes some kind of failure with the PS3.

Dude, I'd say that Sony have once again stooged off it's customers with faulty downloads.

... No surprise here.

my sister's boyfriend had a problem with MGS4 today, the game's framerate went to screenshots.... like if he was playing brawl on-line the day it came out (because now is totally fine XD)

but i had no problems with our PS3 today, however i was playing MGS3, and a little bit of timeshift (trying to like the game again....it didn't work)

No I havent had problems. My game of HSG had slowed down in the gameplay like a few weeks ago but I think that was just a regular chugging problem or something.

One thing with Sony is that they always check into any issues, no matter how trivial or small the occurrence is, with these firmware updates.