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Watch Saturday Night Live skewer Google Glass-obsessed tech reporters. [The Verge]

A drone got stuck on a statue on top of a courthouse in Ohio. Welcome to the future! [AP]

"When some future Mars colonist is able to open his browser and watch a cat in a shark suit chasing a duck while riding a roomba, they will have Vint Cerf to thank." Mmmkay. [Wired]

Betabeat feels obliged to point out that the world's first 3D-printed gun, the "Liberator," has the same name as a sex pillow. [Forbes]

The sci fi folk at Tor Books say removing DRM hasn't put a dent in its ebook sales. [Ars Technica]

Earlier today, NBC's website was hacked. The site returned to normal for a few minutes, but now even the homepage is having problems. This afternoon, users who clicked on the "Shows" or "Full Episodes" tab were shown a black page with glowing lights, loud music, and references to Guy Fawkes Night, which is celebrated on November 5th.  NBC's mobile landing site, Saturday Night Live page, 30 Rock clips, and NBC Sports Rotoworld were also hacked.

Despite the Fawkes reference, Anonymous has not yet taken credit for the hack. A message on the site said "Hacked by pyknic." It's also unclear why NBC was a target. Not a Louis C.K. fan, perhaps?

The defaced page claimed that user info was exposed and passwords were dumped. We've reached out to NBC for comment and will update you as soon as we learn more.

UPDATE 2.30 p.m: The hacker "pyknic" has also taken down the Lady Gaga fansite: GagaDaily.com.

UPDATE 6 p.m.: An NBC representative says the site has been almost entirely restored.

If you have any information about the hack, please email Tips@Betabeat.com.

Mr. Mars

If you went to Hulu or NBC.com this morning to catch up on this weekend's Saturday Night Live--the highest-rated episode of the season--you could find Bruno Mars as a sad mouse mascot, Bruno Mars as a 17-year-old dropout in drag, Bruno Mars doing a monologue, and even Bruno Mars singing his own songs. The one clip you couldn't find is Bruno Mars playing a very versatile Pandora intern--one of the better-rated sketches from the evening.

"The very, very obvious culprit here are music licenses, which are almost always the culprit behind missing SNL sketches," reports AllThingsD. 

In the course of seven minutes, Mars belts out pieces of songs from Katy Perry, Green Day, Aerosmith and  Michael Jackson. And if the show doesn’t have the digital rights to a single piece of a single song, the whole thing goes black on the Web, legally speaking.

But NBC's loss is Dan Abrams gain, notes ATD. A video aggregator called GossipCop, which is part of the Mediaite empire, is hosting the video with an option to embed. We imagine NBC hasn't asked GossipCop to take it down yet because what  better way to communicate to the music industry that its policies aren't working than watching digital revenues get siphoned off by a legal analyst?