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Pre-caffeine tech: Social media is totally dead!

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Before this weekend, you'd probably never heard of Epsilon Data Management. But the marketing firm behind the high-profile leak of data belonging to Best Buy, Target, The College Board, Walgreens and other big-name firms probably has an intimate relationship with you

Since yesterday, you can add Target, 1800Flowers.com and Red Roof Inn to the growing list of companies whose customer emails may have been exposed.

Meanwhile, infamous hacktivist group Anonymous announced that it will be waging a cyberwar on Sony ... and it appears to have already struck the first blow.

And in an ironic twist, the head of gaming security for Xbox LIVE had his own Xbox account, as well as his personal website, hacked by a disgruntled gamer.

Facebook for iPhone is getting a bucket of upgrades, including event check-ins, Google maps to find your friends, the ability to unfriend from your iPhone and more.

Twitter's MIA advanced search is back, and the microblogging service updated its algorithms.  

Alas, these Facebook and Twitter improvements are an enormous waste of time because social media is totally over... according to James Franco.

Perhaps James Franco should check out this cartoon: So True It’s Almost Not Funny: Tech Innovation Explained.

Perhaps we should all enjoy "My Parents Were Awesome" — the latest Tumblr-to-Book release.

And speaking of cartoons, Arnold Schwarzenegger is 'The Governator' in this apparently real cartoon.