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February 25, 2016, 12:30 AM

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New York Times:

Sources: Apple is working on a security upgrade to prevent the exploit method FBI is seeking from working in the future — Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can't Hack — WASHINGTON — Apple engineers have already begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible …

More: ABC News, Daring Fireball, Guardian, USA Today, CNET, MacRumors, App Advice, The Verge, SlashGear, Tech Insider, Ubergizmo, Fortune, The Huffington Post, The Loop and DISPLAYBLOG

Tweets: @mattblaze, @elizabeth_joh, @ktbenner, @csoghoian, @snowden and @puiwingtam

Enjoli Francis / ABC News:

Tim Cook defends Apple's stance, says company cooperated with FBI, but won't trample civil liberties: full ABC interview — Exclusive: Apple CEO Tim Cook Says iPhone-Cracking Software ‘Equivalent of Cancer’

More: ABC News, Washington Post, PCWorld, NPR, BuzzFeed, ABC News, VentureBeat, BGR, iMore, Associated Press, Daring Fireball, CIO.com, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, Patently Apple, Mashable, Silicon Valley Business … and App Advice

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

If Apple is forced to break its iPhone security, it would cast doubt over the ability to avoid surveillance in a future with more and more connected devices

More: Ars Technica, Tech Times and TIME

Tweets: @cjchivers and @emilysteel

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft is buying mobile tool vendor Xamarin — In a move many have been anticipating, Microsoft is buying mobile tool maker Xamarin for an undisclosed amount. — In a move that was expected and rumored for a long time, Microsoft is buying tool maker Xamarin.

Jay Greene / Wall Street Journal:

Source: Microsoft paid between $400M and $500M for four-year-old Xamarin

Tweets: @smartyp and @daniellemorrill

Quentin Hardy / New York Times:

With Xamarin deal, Microsoft aims to solidify Azure as cloud of choice for developers as competition with AWS, Google heats up

Lucas Mearian / CSO:

Unsecured Nissan APIs allow anyone with VIN number to access battery management, climate control, more; Nissan says it's aware of problem, doesn't affect safety — Hackers can access the Nissan Leaf via insecure APIs — A hacker could control the charging functions related to the electric vehicle's lithium-ion battery

More: Troy Hunt's Blog, BBC, The Daily Dot, USA Today, Engadget, Digital Trends, ZDNet, Jalopnik, Motherboard and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @amdev

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple plans Siri for Mac as tentpole feature for this fall's OS X 10.12 launch — Apple currently plans to use its next major release of the Mac operating system, known as OS X 10.12, this fall to continue to expand Siri across its product lines. Last year, Apple implemented Siri …

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Starts Highlighting AMP Pages In Its Mobile Search Results — Smartphones and networks are constantly getting faster, but somehow the mobile web now feels slower than it ever did. That's largely thanks to all the ads and trackers that most sites now use (and maybe the abundance of large GIFs, too).

More: ampproject.org, WordPress.com News, Backchannel, Search Engine Land, Accelerated Mobile …, Greenbot, Adweek, WordPress Tavern, GitHub, Google Europe Blog, Nieman Lab, Re/code, CNET, The Verge, New York Times and Engadget. Tweets: @mdudas. See also Mediagazer

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

WordPress.com sites now automatically support Google's AMP to speed up mobile page loading; self-hosted WordPress sites can enable AMP with a plugin

More: eWeek, Android Police, Official Google Blog, TechnoBuffalo, BBC, CIO.com, SiliconBeat, SlashGear, PhoneDog.com, ResearchBuzz, Consumerist, Wall Street Journal, WebProNews, Search Engine Journal and Android Central. See also Mediagazer

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Google Fiber coming to San Francisco for some apartments, condos, and public housing units, will use existing fiber networks — Google Fiber is coming to San Francisco — Google Fiber is heading close to home for its next location: San Francisco. Google announced this morning that it intends …

Nikkei:

Sharp accepts Hon Hai's $6.2bn buyout offer — OSAKA/TOKYO — Sharp's board on Thursday morning decided to accept a roughly 700 billion yen ($6.2 billion) takeover offer from Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry. — The Japanese electronics maker intends to restructure its operations under …

More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business, The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Engadget, Reuters, 9to5Mac, Associated Press, CNBC, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocketnow and MobileSyrup.com

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook rolls out Reactions to all, adding Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry buttons to Like; each button has same impact on News Feed ranking for now — Facebook Enhances Everyone's Like With Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, Angry Buttons — Humanity has been boiled down to six emotions.

Liz Stinson / Wired:

Behind Facebook's decision to narrow Reactions down to a set of six, the design of the icons, and their layout in posts

More: Wall Street Journal, Digital Trends, ResearchBuzz, Computerworld and The Loop

Kate Kochetkova / Kaspersky Lab:

What is known about the Lazarus Group: Sony hack, military espionage, attacks on Korean banks and other crimes — The morning of November 24, 2014 is engrained into the collective memories of Sony Pictures Entertainment employees. On that day, an unknown cybergang hacked the company's server …

More: Wired, Motherboard, AlienVault Unified …, Securelist, PCWorld, eWeek, The Register, SecurityWeek and Cisco Blog. Tweets: @kimzetter

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

Google Docs now lets you edit and format text using your voice — Google today announced updates to Google Docs that builds on the speech recognition capabilities it introduced a few months ago. — “We launched Voice typing in Google Docs to help you capture ideas, compose a letter …

More: Google Docs Blog, The Next Web, Official Google for Work Blog, BetaNews, 9to5Google, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider

Alex Konrad / Forbes:

Andreessen Horowitz Names Nicira And VMware Veteran Martin Casado Its Ninth General Partner — As Andreessen Horowitz looks to ramp up its investing in enterprise software and infrastructure, the venture firm is looking to a past founder who scored it one of its best exits ever for help.

More: Andreessen Horowitz, VentureBeat, The Register, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, Light Reading, Fortune, Business Insider and TechCrunch

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Sources: Google to add Chromecast-like features to TV sets, starting with Vizio, could become available as early as spring — Google to Add Casting to TV Sets, Starting With Vizio (Exclusive) — Move could signal shift in company's living-room strategy — Google is getting ready …

More: The Verge, TWICE, The Next Web, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, Liliputing, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, TIME and Android Central

Juan Garzon / CNET:

OnePlus 3 will launch by end of June, to be sold in US and other markets as unlocked phone — Exclusive: The OnePlus 3 will launch by June … Juan Garzón/CNET

More: Fone Arena, Android and Me, Ubergizmo, Phandroid, 9to5Google, PhoneDog.com, Pocketnow, Droid Life, TechnoBuffalo, MobileSyrup.com, Android Beat and Android Central. Tweets: @caseynewton

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple says functionality removed from the Apple Pencil in iOS 9.3 will return in next beta — Apple Pencil Navigation Functionality to Return in Next iOS 9.3 Beta — The early iOS 9.3 betas removed key functionality from the Apple Pencil, an unpopular move that eliminated its ability to be used for navigation.

More: Digital Trends, The Verge, 9to5Mac, iMore, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac and AppleInsider

Joseph Cox / Motherboard:

New court document confirms FBI subpoenaed Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute for IP addresses captured through its DoD-funded Tor research — Confirmed: Carnegie Mellon University Attacked Tor, Was Subpoenaed By Feds — Update: Kenneth Walters, a spokesperson from CMU …

More: Ars Technica and Fusion

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