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March 1, 2016, 1:55 PM

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Aaron Souppouris / Engadget:

Sony's next big PS4 update brings Remote Play to PC and Mac — Sony surprised a lot of people when it announced you'd be able to remotely play PlayStation 4 games on a PC or Mac back in November. But we're just as surprised at how quickly it's turned this around: Remote Play will come with the next big PlayStation software update.

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 …

More: Reuters, GeekWire, BGR, TIME, Reuters, Motherboard, USA Today, ZDNet, Schneier on Security, USA Today, New York Times, Macworld, Washington Post, iPhone in Canada Blog, Associated Press, NPR, On Point with Tom Ashbrook, Digital Trends, Electronic Frontier Foundation, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, International Business Times, Silicon Republic, Wall Street Journal, Newser, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, MacNN, Washington Times, The Overspill, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, PhoneDog.com, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, International Business Times, New York Times, BuzzFeed, Washington Post, Freedex, Daring Fireball, BuzzFeed, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, EFF, The Daily Dot, Slashdot, Los Angeles Times, The Loop, Pocketnow, Business Insider, CNET, The Mac Observer, NPR, 9to5Mac, BGR, MacNN, Politico, WCTI-TV, Mercury News, Mashable, MacRumors, RT and Tech Insider

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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: 9to5Mac, Washington Post, TIME, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tech Insider, Pocketnow, Forbes, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Guardian, Cult of Mac, CBS San Francisco, Daring Fireball, CBS San Francisco and iLounge

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, Digital Trends, GeekWire, Engadget, ZDNet, International Business Times, SecurityWeek, Windows Central, TechCrunch, Fone Arena, TechnoBuffalo, Neowin, VentureBeat, WinBeta, WebProNews and TechCrunch

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

13M+ HTTPS sites, email services using TLS protocol open to decryption attack, made possible due to weak ciphers added prior to 2000 as part of US export regs — More than 13 million HTTPS websites imperiled by new decryption attack — Low-cost DROWN attack decrypts data in hours, works against TLS e-mail servers, too.

More: A Few Thoughts …, eWeek, PCWorld, Inquirer, The Register, ZDNet, The Hacker News, Qualys Blog, The Tech Report, The Next Web, CloudFlare and The Loop

Tweets: @geekanddad and @shamanseki

David Meyer / Fortune:

Brazilian authorities arrest senior Facebook exec Diego Dzodan, saying Facebook repeatedly disobeyed court order to help in drug case involving a WhatsApp user — Brazil Arrests Senior Facebook Exec Over WhatsApp Aid In Drug Case — Facebook's fb vice president for Latin America …

More: Associated Press, SiliconBeat, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Verge, RT and Bloomberg Business

Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:

SoundHound's virtual assistant Hound launches out of beta to take on Siri, with support for Uber and Yelp — SoundHound's virtual assistant launches out of beta to take on Siri, with support for Uber and Yelp — You may have thought that SoundHound had long ago ridden into the sunset, but you'd be wrong.

More: Engadget, Re/code, Android Authority, The Verge, 9to5Google, CNET, Digital Trends, Business Insider, Socialnomics, PCWorld, PC Magazine, New York Post, Motherboard, Mashable, TechCrunch and Lifehacker

Ben Popper / The Verge:

DJI's Phantom 4: obstacle detection makes it nearly crash proof, can auto-track human, very fast with top speed of 45 mph; retails for $1400, preorders now open — DJI's revolutionary Phantom 4 drone can dodge obstacles and track humans — When The Verge began covering “drones” …

More: Re/code, MacRumors, Computerworld, The Next Web, AppleInsider, ZDNet, CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, Wall Street Journal and Photoforward

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Shake-Up at VMware as COO Eschenbach Leaves for Sequoia Capital — Carl Eschenbach, the COO and No. 2 at VMware, the software company controlled by EMC, is stepping down to join the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, the latest executive shake-up ahead of EMC's effective acquisition by Dell later this year.

More: ZDNet, The Register, InfoWorld, SiliconANGLE and Fortune

Tweets: @jasonlk and @ahess247

Jonathan Vanian / Fortune:

Cisco to pay $260M for cloud management software provider CliQr — Cisco Just Spent Millions on This Hot Cloud Startup — Cisco's acquisition spree continues to roll in 2016. — The networking giant said on Tuesday that it will pay $260 million for cloud computing startup CliQr …

More: ZDNet, The Register, SiliconANGLE, SiliconBeat, InfoWorld, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, StreetInsider.com, Bloomberg Business and CRN. Tweets: @jasonlk. Thanks:@ravichandrans25

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.

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: Techdirt, TechHive, Wired, The Hill, DSLreports, FierceCable and Investor's Business Daily. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

The Associated Press debuts Election Buzz, an online dashboard that uses Twitter, Google data to track the conversation and searches concerning US elections — The AP debuts “Election Buzz,” a tool that uses Twitter and Google data to track the U.S. elections

More: Marketing Land and Search Engine Land. See also Mediagazer

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