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Pre-caffeine tech: Porn censoring, wombats!

Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.

The BlackBerry 10 launch is today, if you're interested. 

In other news, a 23-year-old high-school teacher in Aurora, Colo., is on administrative leave pending an investigation after a local news station exposed half-naked pics and pot-smoking boasts posted from her Twitter account.

Also, a man who authorities say tricked women into posing nude on the Skype Internet video service has been arrested.

Twitter cleaned up Vine's hashtags, censoring #porn, #sex, and other naughty terms.

Meanwhile, photo-sharing app 500px has returned to Apple's App Store after a week's absence, after being kicked out for allegedly providing easy access to pornographic material. 

When video-sharing apps do managed to keep porn out, here's how they do it. 

A whopping 156 million views of Lady Gaga's videos have been removed from her account after the online video provider decided to audit the site to clear out old videos.

And Ke$ha's 'Die Young' is the top workout track ... at least on Spotify.

Microsoft's highly anticipated Surface Pro tablet, which runs the full version of Windows 8 rather than the poorly received Windows RT, will come out of the box with nearly two-thirds of its 64 GB of storage filled up.

In closing, the Northern hairy-nosed wombat. 

Compiled by Helen A.S. Popkin, who invites you to join her on Twitter and/or Facebook

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