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the hacks continue for Sony and we say goodbye to a gaming legend I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update the bad news continues for Sony as the company has been hit by another cyber attack this time targeting the PlayStation Network and store the hub for games films and TV shows was down for about two hours Monday but it has been fixed during the outage player saw screen that read page not found it's not you it's the Internet's fault the cause is still being investigated and right now there's no sign that any data was stolen this doesn't seem to be related to last week's attack on Sony Pictures you see this time a hacker group called the lizard squad is claiming responsibility with cryptic tweets the squad also boasted about causing a similar outage on the Xbox network last week the attack comes as Sony celebrates the 20th birthday of the PlayStation video game console the company released a limited edition version of the ps4 painted in the gray color of the original PlayStation but it sold out within minutes of being posted online and now you can find them going for a double and triple the price on ebay in fact there's one listing where someone paid more than twenty thousand dollars for a unit and another for more than fifteen thousand dollars except for the paint job this is the same machine and accessories that you can get in stores now perhaps today's video game systems wouldn't be where they are today if it wasn't for one engineer Ralph Baer the man many call the father of the home video game console has died at age 92 back in 1966 bear worked on the brown box it was a prototype for what would become the Magnavox Odyssey the first home console that played games on a television screen the Odyssey had no sound it was powered by batteries and it cost one hundred dollars table tennis was one game for the system it sold nearly a hundred thousand units in 1972 which was five years before Atari became popular Bayer received the Medal of Technology from President George W Bush in two thousand six and switching over to the world of streaming music grooveshark is coming out with a new type of service that similar to pandora the wall street journal reported the grooveshark will roll out a digital radio service in january called broadcasts where users can text with each other while listening to custom radio stations that are created by users it'll cost 99 cents a month and it won't have commercials that your tech news update you can always find more at cnet com and be sure to follow me on Twitter and subscribe to our podcast from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey