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Pre-caffeine tech: Tweet seats, Pee Wee Herman cycling suit!

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

Anonymous says it hijacked the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission to avenge the death of Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who committed suicide. The FBI is investigating.

Ashton Kutcher went "fruitarian" like Steve Jobs to get into his role in the biopic, and ended up in the hospital instead. 

Meanwhile, Facebook might owe you $10. 

A Turkish cultural center in Austria has stirred up an international tiff over a "Star Wars" Lego toy: specifically, a model of Jabba the Hutt's domed palace that the Turks say looks too much like Istanbul's sacred Hagia Sophia monument.

A movie theater is now setting aside a small number of seats — in the back — for those who promise to live-tweet from the performance using a special hashtag.

Apple's iconic iPhone is losing some of its luster among Asia's well-heeled consumers in Singapore and Hong Kong, a victim of changing mobile habits, its own runaway success and iPhone fatigue.

Whoops! Chicago Public School administrators were apologizing Thursday after a typo in a email to parents sent families to an erotic website.

Unlocking cellphones is illegal as of Saturday. Here's why.

In closing, a Pee Wee Herman cycling suit. Just because. 

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

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