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Pre-caffeine tech: Malware! Fax machines! Hippos!

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Our pre-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 today:

That survey that revealed Internet Explorer 6 users are dumb? Yeah, that was probably totally a hoax.

The long-awaited Skype for iPad app is available — really available after being released in the past 24 hours, then pulled from Apple's App Store, then being put back.

Security experts discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of 72 organizations, including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world.

Google snapped up a facial recognition technology company — now Google+ is one step closer to being just as creepy as Facebook!

Good news everybody! Research continues to debunk claims that the dark companion, nicknamed Nemesis or the "Death Star," might be out to get us in 2012.

Android malware is recording your phone calls.

Say goodbye to old Twitter — it'll be gone for good sometime this week.

Hey, remember fax machines? Soon, they may be little more than a memory.

Remember BlackBerrys? AT&T announced three new ones.

As it is still Shark Week, please enjoy 20 things that kill more people than sharks every year!

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