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March 1, 2016, 9:30 AM

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The Intercept:

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 …

Hamza Shaban / BuzzFeed:

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 …

More: Forbes, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Verge, NPR, Pocketnow, Guardian, Ubergizmo, 9to5Mac, CBS San Francisco, CBS San Francisco, Daring Fireball and iLounge

Alex Heath / Business Insider:

Apple's general counsel Bruce Sewell submits opening statement for his testimony before Congress tomorrow, summarizing Apple's position in FBI case

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.

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

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 …

More: ZDNet, Tech Times, Pocketnow, Fone Arena, International Business Times, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, Geek.com, FierceMobileIT News and Investor's Business Daily. Tweets: @markgurman

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

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.

More: Windows Blog, ZDNet, Windows Central, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Neowin and WinBeta

Justin Pritchard / Associated Press:

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 …

John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:

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

More: Wired, The Hill, DSLreports, FierceCable, Investor's Business Daily and Tech Trader Daily. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: Objective-See's Blog, ZDNet, Reverse Engineering Mac OS X, InfoWorld, Help Net Security, Motherboard, MacNN and Engadget. Tweets: @patrickwardle

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.

More: Investor Relations, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, MacNN, Rude Baguette, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, International Business Times, VatorNews, The Next Web, Re/code, 9to5Google, Pocket-lint, Bloomberg Business, Engadget and silicontap.com

Tweets: @yenaphe, @alexjamesfitz and @jean_patry

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.

More: Harjeet and TechCrunch. Tweets: @patio11, @dylanpyle, @kneath, @jorilallo, @first_doit, @joshuatopolsky and @martindale

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:

Bill Maris Talks Uber, Zenefits, And Increasing GV's Yearly Fund To $500 Million — On Thursday night, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, I talked with GV CEO Bill Maris about a wide range of issues, including what happened with its Europe fund, why GV didn't invest in Zenefits …

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @mhkt and @semil

Daniel Tyson / Ausdroid:

Google adds Virtual Reality section to Google Store; starts selling Cardboard compatible viewers in the US — Google has been moving into the Virtual Reality space for a few years now, ever since Cardboard was announced as a throwaway at the end of Google I/O back in 2014.

More: Android Police, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, ResearchBuzz, International Business Times, Fone Arena, Phandroid and Android Central

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