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February 24, 2016, 2:25 PM

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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.

More: Facebook, Facebook, The Verge, GeekWire, Guardian, Slate, SiliconBeat, Android Police, Vox, USA Today, Computerworld, BuzzFeed, Adweek, AppleInsider, Quartz, The Daily Dot, Guardian, Macworld, ZDNet, CNET, Digital Trends, Social, Redmond Pie, ValueWalk, Windows Central, SlashGear, Newser, Re/code, Phandroid, Associated Press, Washington Post, AndroidGuys, Droid Life, tech.co, MacRumors, The Verge, the Econsultancy blog, Yahoo Tech, BetaNews, The Huffington Post, SocialTimes, Refinery29, 9to5Google, Reuters, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, internetretailer.com, Ubergizmo, WebProNews, PhoneDog.com, TechnoBuffalo, App Advice, Pocketnow, Tech Times, ABC News, iDownloadBlog.com, Marketing Land, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and NBC Bay Area

Tweets: @stevenlevy, @nathanjurgenson, @robbievmyers, @gt and @profjeffjarvis

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 — Facebook Reactions, the Totally Redesigned Like Button, Is Here — Your News Feed is about to get a lot more expressive. After months of user testing in a handful of countries …

More: Computerworld, ResearchBuzz, CNET and WebProNews

Tweets: @mattnavarra and @b_fung

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 …

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Google Fiber coming to some San Francisco properties, 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 to bring its fast gigabit internet to …

More: Google Fiber Blog, Gizmodo, The Next Web, DSLreports, Mercury News, VentureBeat, Engadget, USA Today, Slate, Android Central, Techdirt and Re/code

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 — WordPress Sites Now Support Google's AMP To Make Mobile Pages Load Much Faster — Google has some big plans when it comes to making the web faster on your mobile phone.

More: Official Google Blog, Wall Street Journal, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com, WebProNews, Consumerist, Wired, Search Engine Journal, ResearchBuzz, MediaShift, Adotas, 9to5Google and Android Central. See also Mediagazer

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: Nieman Lab, Adweek, Macworld, The Verge, CNET, Re/code, Engadget, WordPress.com News, New York Times, Search Engine Land, Backchannel, Google Europe Blog, GitHub and Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @mdudas. See also Mediagazer

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: Securelist, PCWorld, Motherboard, Wired, eWeek, The Register and SecurityWeek

Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com:

Microsoft launches Hub Keyboard for Android with app content sharing, built-in translation, multi-item clipboard, and contacts integration — Microsoft Hub Keyboard Brings App Content Sharing to Android — Microsoft Garage this week released a new keyboard replacement app for Android called Hub Keyboard.

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg Business:

Source: Apple to argue that code should be protected as speech under First Amendment in FBI case — Apple-FBI Fight Asks: Is Code Protected as Free Speech? — IPhone maker is seeking to use First Amendment as a defense — Case may set precedent for considering software as expression

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 — The Apple Case Will Grope Its Way Into Your Future — To understand what's at stake in the battle between Apple and the F.B …

More: Ars Technica, TIME, Fortune, Federal Computer Week and eWeek

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.

More: ScottGu's Blog, VentureBeat, The Official Microsoft Blog and Business Insider. Tweets: @bradwilson

Erik Crouch / Tech in Asia:

Xiaomi launches Mi5 with 5.15" Full HD display, Snapdragon 820, 4GB RAM, and 16MP camera for $413, only available in China for now — Xiaomi's Mi5 flagship looks like one of the best phones on the market — Xiaomi Mi5. Image by Xiaomi. — Xiaomi today announced the launch of the Mi5, the company's latest flagship smartphone.

More: Computerworld, BetaNews, The Verge, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Xiaomi MIUI Official …, BGR, Gizmodo, Android Authority, Ars Technica UK, Re/code, FierceWireless, Computerworld, The Register, The Verge, BetaNews and VentureBeat

Tweets: @jonrussell, @thenextweb and @thenextweb

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Stripe unveils Stripe Atlas to help international entrepreneurs incorporate their businesses in the US — Stripe Atlas Aims to Ease the Way for Foreign Entrepreneurs — Stripe, the San Francisco-based e-commerce start-up, thrives when other businesses do well.

More: The Next Web, The Irish Times, TechCrunch, Re/code, Wired, Motherboard, Inc.com, International Business Times and Fortune

Tweets: @sean_a_rose, @sarahcuda, @stripe and @paulg

Thanks:@sarahvallarino

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Google launches Project Shield, a free DDOS mitigation service, to all non-state news sites — Google Wants to Save News Sites From Cyberattacks—For Free — Mehdi Yahyanejad thought that after Iranians voted on June 12, 2009, he would finally get some rest.

More: The Next Web and 9to5Google. See also Mediagazer

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