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Brooklyn federal judge rules in drug case that government can't use All Writs Act to force Apple to unlock iPhones — Apple Wins Major Court Victory Against FBI in a Case Similar to San Bernardino — Apple scored a major legal victory in its ongoing battle against the FBI on Monday …
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One San Bernardino survivor's husband supports Apple in amicus curiae, doubts shooter's iPhone contains valuable information — San Bernardino Survivor's Husband To Judge: Terrorist iPhone “Unlikely” To Hold Valuable Information — As Apple and the FBI tangle over encryption in courtrooms and Congress … | Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
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New 9.7-inch iPad Pro may best 12.9-inch model with 12MP camera, 4K video — While Apple's upcoming 9.7-inch iPad Pro will mostly match the 12.9-inch version in terms of functionality, there likely will be one key difference. Internal prototypes of the smaller model include … | David Gianatasio / Adweek: |
McDonald's Sweden trialing $4.10 Happy Goggles, Happy Meal boxes that turn into Google Cardboard-like VR viewers — McDonald's Is Now Making Happy Meal Boxes That Turn Into Virtual Reality Headsets — McDonald's Sweden is launching a promotion that invites kids to turn Happy Meal boxes into virtual-reality viewers.
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Microsoft announces Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection service for enterprise, uses cloud to detect breaches by analyzing system behavior — Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection uses cloud power to figure out you've been pwned — New service can detect network breaches by spotting unusual system behavior.
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Google's self-driving car may have caused its first accident, hitting public bus in California at 2mph, according to company's report to DMV — Google self-driving car strikes public bus in California — LOS ANGELES (AP) — A self-driving car being tested by Google struck a public bus on a city street …
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FCC investigating whether cable firms use contract provisions to keep media companies like Disney, Fox, HBO, others from bringing programming to the Internet — FCC Probes Cable Firms' Influence on Web TV — Some contractual clauses prevent media firms from sending content to online providers| Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
GoPro acquires startups Stupeflix and Vemory, developers of mobile video editing apps Replay and Splice, for $105M — GoPro Shells Out $105 Million For Two Video Editing Startups To Address Its Biggest Problem — The pounding waves of the public market have batters and bruised GoPro.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Largely undetected Mac malware suggests disgraced HackingTeam has returned — Researchers have uncovered what appears to be newly developed Mac malware from HackingTeam, a discovery that's prompting speculation that the disgraced malware-as-a-service provider has reemerged since last July's hack …
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Objective-See's Blog, ZDNet, InfoWorld, Reverse Engineering Mac OS X, Help Net Security, Motherboard, MacNN and Engadget. Tweets: @patrickwardle
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Snapchat hires Sriram Krishnan, who ran Facebook's Audience mobile ad network — Snapchat Hires Exec Who Ran Facebook's Ad Network — Sriram Krishnan, the Facebook exec who's been running the company's ad network, is headed to Snapchat. — Krishnan joined Facebook in 2013 and helped launch … | Harj Taggar / Triplebyte: |
Y Combinator to begin recommending that their startups adopt 10-year stock option exercise windows — Fixing the Inequity of Startup Equity — tl;dr Short stock option exercise windows suck. They force startup employees to make hard decisions, and often rob them of fairly earned compensation.
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