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it's Monday October 28th 2013 I'm Stephen Greenwood the Verge's resident lumberjack and this is 90 seconds on the verge President Obama appears to be the latest victim of Syrian hackers the links used by Obama's Twitter and Facebook feeds were hijacked with the seemingly innocuous URLs now redirecting users to a malware site and Syria propaganda video according to the White House the Twitter handle itself was never compromised the Obama administration has had a particularly rough week with a data center critical to healthcare gov experiencing an outage over the weekend in sad news this weekend rock and roll legend Lou Reed died at age 71 in 1964 read along with John Cale formed the influential group develop at underground after leaving the band in the early 70s Reed went on to have a successful solo career his notable hits include walk on the wild side sweet Jane and white light/white Heat former bandmate John Cale wrote that the world lost a fine songwriter and poet and that he lost his school yard buddy and finally the Jedi has returned on laserdisc buyers of a rare laserdisc found it full of raw footage from Return of the Jedi the laserdisc was purchased on ebay for nearly seven hundred dollars and was apparently used to show off the first digital editing system to prospective buyers nearly 30 years ago if you haven't had a chance to see the footage you're not missing that much at one point it's just a full minute of r2d2 fixing Luke Skywalker's x-wing fighter that's it for today's top stories coming up tomorrow we'll check out the video sharing site for ghosts boo tube booth to booth blue tube