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Personal Data May Have Been Accessed During November Steam Intrusion

by Max Eddy | 2:11 pm, February 13th

Steam, the online gaming distribution system we know and love, announced back in November that they’d been the victim of a security breach. At the time, it was reported that the hacker had accessed the Steam user database, but that no information appeared to have been compromised. However, the ongoing investigation seems to indicate that it might be worse than originally thought.

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Weird Al’s Lady Gaga Parody [Video]

by Erin Podolak | 5:54 pm, June 20th

Weird Al Yankovic has released the music video for “Perform This Way”, a parody of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” which is the first single off his new album. Weird Al fans have been anticipating the video ever since the controversy over whether Lady Gaga would approve the song caused Yankovic to announce in April that “Perform This Way” would not be on the album.

Yankovic tried to get permission from Lady Gaga for the parody, but her manager shot down the idea without forwarding the song to Gaga herself.  Weird Al fans were disappointed until Lady Gaga came to the rescue, approving the song.The video features Yankovic’s head superimposed on a the body of a young woman, dancing and donning crazy outfits (including a version of Lady Gaga’s infamous meat dress). Proceeds from “Perform This Way” will go to Human Rights Campaign, due to what Yankovic describes as the “human rights anthem” nature of Lady Gaga’s original song.

(via Laughing Squid)

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Disappointment At Tevatron: No New Particle

by Erin Podolak | 2:28 pm, June 10th

Scientists have been buzzing about the potential discovery of a new particle at Chicago’s Fermilab Tevatron Collider since April when data that could have been evidence for a new particle was announced by the CDF group. On first estimate, CDF concluded that there was a one in ten thousand chance of the evidence being a statistical fluke, but as the strength of the signal grew upon further analysis, those odds were revised to be one in a million.

It turns out that the “new particle” data is actually one in a million. Following analysis of the evidence by Fermilab’s second detector DZero, the researchers have concluded that there is no new particle. The DZero analysis, combined with the lack of any indication that a particle of the right mass has been detected by CERN’s Large Hardon Collider, suggests that the initial evidence may be unique to the CDF detector rather than an actual new particle.

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PR Firm Behind Facebook’s Anti-Google Campaign: Job “Should Have Been Declined”

by Robert Quigley | 2:23 pm, May 12th

Now that it’s out in the open that Facebook was the client that asked heavy-hitting PR firm Burson-Marsteller to stealthily manipulate the media to spread an anti-Google whisper campaign, Burson, which has some serious PR damage control to perform on its own reputation, has spoken out publicly, throwing its former client under the bus just a little bit. In a statement, Burson-Marsteller explained Facebook’s reasons for asking for what it did, but concluded that what it was asked to do was “not at all standard operating procedure and is against our policies, and the assignment on those terms should have been declined.”

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