While I saw it in the Washington Post, this New Scientist article covers the same press conference without requiring registration:

Analysis of the diminutive cranium of Homo floresiensis - a tiny hobbit-like human that lived in Indonesia just 13,000 years ago - confirms it as a unique species and reveals remarkably advanced features for such a small brain.
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This adds weight to the theory that H. floresiensis may have possessed an intelligence and tool-building ability traditionally associated with much larger-brained humans. The charred bones of animals were also found in the caves on Flores. "It may well be that the population was hunting, making tools and using fire," says Falk. "I'm conservative by nature but in light of these features we find nothing to contradict this speculation."

Scientific American did a big write-up on this in their last print issue. It looks as if many of the objections raised there (microcephaly in particular) are being answered. It would also seem the fear that the Indonesian scientist who had taken ultimate possession of the fossils would hide them away forever is turning out to be unfounded.