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Pre-caffeine tech: Grammy trolls, hack attacks!

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.

News of Whitney Houston's death hit Twitter 27 minutes before it hit the "news." ...

Want to hear something amazing? Whitney Houston's isolated vocals (without music) on "How Will I Know."

Not so stunning: Less than 30 minutes after her death made news, online prices for Whitney Houston albums suddenly went up.

In other news, the CIA website back up after Anonymous claimed attacks on it and the state of Alabama.

Meanwhile, Microsoft India's retail website was down on Monday after being hacked, with a purportedly Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team posting screenshots the hackers said were customers' obscured usernames and passwords found unencrypted on the site.

And a hacker claims to have compromised the personal information of more than 350,000 users after breaking into a disused website operated by pornography provider Brazzers. 

Sneaky, sneaky: A new SOPA bill creeping into congress?

Google would prefer you didn't use the word "Gchat," thank you very much.

MySpace has 1 million new users ... for some reason.

In other news, we may never know what made the purple squirrel of Jersey Shore purple, but experts don't doubt that it really was a squirrel of a different color. And now it's free.

Apple launched new legal attack on Samsung phones, alleging a patent infringement. It's the latest in more than 20 court battles!

And now, the only thing relevent about the Grammys: Deadmau5 Pranks Skrillex By Wearing His Cellphone Number On The Red Carpet! #trololo