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:
Good news everybody! Turns out location is constitutionally protected from intrusion —this one judge says feds need a warrant for cellphone info.
That doesn't change the fact that it's apparently boom times for surveillance technology.
And here's why: The feds are also looking into a report that hackers managed to remotely shut down a utility's water pump in central Illinois last week, in what could be the first known foreign cyber attack on a U.S. industrial system.
In somewhat less distressing news, more than 200 indie lables pulled out of Spotify. Here's why.
Also, Google's Ice Cream update doesn't come with Flash.
Oh, and Google updated Chrome, fixing a high-risk vulnerability that leaves outdated versions of the popular Web browser open to attack.
(Could this be the browser that left Facebook vulnerable to those ongoing porn and gore spam attacks?)
Albert Einstein's brain will go on display at Philadelphia's Mutter Museum, thanks to a donation from a neuropathologist who has been holding onto the samples for decades. Um ... awesome?
Meanwhile, kids today are just so full of themselves and it's totally Steve Jobs' fault, according to this one rabbi.
Also, do your best not to text any of these words to women in Pakistan.
In closing, Leonardo DiCaprio Vs. Occupy Protesters. SO RUDE!
— compiled by Helen A.S. Popkin, who invites you to join her on Twitter and/or Facebook. Also, Google+.
