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March 2, 2016, 11:40 AM

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Financial Times:

US House committee skeptical of some FBI claims, also critical of Apple for offering no solution after both sides ask for laws on new encryption technologies — Apple and FBI in plea for encryption legislation — The FBI and Apple on Tuesday both urged Congress to produce legislation …

Agam Shah / Computerworld:

DisplayPort 1.4 to support 8K displays, work with USB-C — Big changes are coming to the popular DisplayPort display standard, with version 1.4 promising support for 8K displays. — DisplayPort 1.4 will allow 8K displays to hook up to laptops, smartphones and other devices via a USB Type-C port.

More: VESA, Ars Technica, Android Authority, TFT Central News, Android Police, The Tech Report and BetaNews

Agence France-Presse:

Brazil judge orders release of Facebook executive — Sao Paulo (AFP) - A Brazilian judge ordered the release Wednesday of Facebook's vice president for Latin America, a day after he was arrested for refusing to hand over WhatsApp messages to the police investigating a drugs case.

More: The Verge, Engadget, International Business Times, Associated Press, NBC Bay Area and Techdirt

Caroline Wall / FierceMobileIT News:

iOS 9.3 may let IT admins dictate homescreen layout, blacklist or whitelist apps, and enforce notification settings on employee iPhones — IOS 9.3 might let IT admins dictate app position on employee iPhone homescreens — Employers will have greater control of company-issued iPhone with iOS 9.3 …

More: The Next Web, Business Insider, Forbes, iPhone Hacks, iClarified, Ubergizmo, App Advice, 9to5Mac and iPhone in Canada Blog

Tweets: @stroughtonsmith and @stevesi

Will Oremus / Slate:

Facebook will now show Live Videos higher in News Feed provided they are currently live and not recordings — Facebook Is Becoming Less Like a Newspaper ... and More Like Cable News — Facebook's News Feed long functioned as a sort of personalized newspaper—a collection of stories …

More: SiliconANGLE, Facebook, Adweek, Fone Arena, Social, Engadget, Mashable, Social Media Today, New York Magazine, WebProNews, TIME and SocialTimes. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Source: Facebook may pay up to six figures for some celebrities to use its live streaming service in promotional push

More: Tubefilter, Fortune, Tech Times, Silicon Republic and Marketing Land. See also Mediagazer

Aaron Tilley / Forbes:

Qualcomm agrees to pay $7.5M to settle SEC allegations it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by bribing government officials in China — Qualcomm Settles SEC Charges That It Repeatedly Bribed Chinese Officials To Gain An Edge — For at least a decade, Qualcomm has bribed government officials …

More: U.S. Securities …, Tech Trader Daily, TechNode, Seeking Alpha, Law360, City A.M., BBC, The Register, The San Diego Union … and Android Central

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

US military launches cyber attacks on ISIS in Mosul, openly announces it probably for the first time — US military launches cyber attacks on ISIS in Mosul, and announces it — Secretary of defense reveals cyber attacks in advance of ground battle for city.

More: Defense One, Digital Trends and CNN

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:

Source: Slack is looking to raise more than $150M in new round of financing — Slack Technologies Seeks Funding for Business Messaging App — Business software startup looking to raise more than $150 million in new round of financing — Slack Technologies Inc. is approaching investors …

Tweets: @wsjd, @jasonlk, @sallyshin, @ychernova and @danprimack

David Meyer / Fortune:

Facebook Hit With German Antitrust Investigation Over User Terms — The German federal competition authority has opened an investigation into Facebook fb , over what it suspects is “an abusive imposition of unfair conditions on users.” — The Bundeskartellamt said Wednesday that Facebook's terms …

More: VentureVillage, VentureBeat, Bloomberg Business, Bundeskartellamt, The Next Web, TechCrunch, International Business Times, New York Times, NASDAQ.com, Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Associated Press

Matt Weinberger / Business Insider:

Zynga board member Frank Gibeau to replace founder Mark Pincus as CEO; Pincus now executive chairman — Mark Pincus is out as CEO of Zynga after less than a year — and a turnaround expert is in — Mark Pincus has stepped down from his role as CEO of publicly-traded social game developer Zynga …

More: GeekWire, Zynga Company Blog, Fortune, New York Times, Zynga, Guardian, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney and Re/code. Tweets: @danprimack

Alan Travis / Guardian:

Revised Investigatory Powers Bill introduced in UK parliament, said to include safeguards for privacy but requires ISPs store browsing data for 12 months — Snooper's charter: wider police powers to hack phones and access web history — Latest version of investigatory powers bill …

Gedalyah Reback / GeekTime:

Cisco buys two-year-old Israeli semiconductor startup Leaba for $380M — Cisco buys two-year-old Israeli startup Leaba for $380 million — As far as semiconductors go, they aren't exactly the headline grabbers of modern tech. But when you see a multinational like Cisco drop $380 million …

More: Reuters, Globes Online, StreetInsider.com, Fortune, Globes Online, Bloomberg Business, Cisco Blog and bvp.com. Tweets: @jasonlk. Thanks:@geektime

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