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Helen A.S. Popkin

Ourpre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning. Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee.

Popular Internet cartoonistMatthew "The Oatmeal" Inman wants your help in raising money for a Nikola Tesla museum on the site of the revolutionary futurist's lab.

The feds want a law thatwould force companiessuch as Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter to build "backdoors" into their software.But privacy advocates say that may make the United Statesmore vulnerable to cyberattacks.

Speaking of security,AT&Tsays unknown attackers hit its network this week, causing loss of service forsomebusiness customers.

Yoinks! This programmer says there's a hole in iPhone iOS that invites phishing attacks!

At least Photobucket put the ban hammer on Reddit's nude photo thieves!

Instagramupdated with a new location-centric feature that puts each and every one of your photos on a map. As long as you don't mind people knowing where you are as soon as you post a picture, it's a fun addition to the service.

The days of Twitter welcoming outside devlopers with open arms are long over --Twitter announced new restrictions thatsternly discouraged independent software developers from creating Twitter apps.

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