On topic: Tech news to know now

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Here’s what’s going on in tech.

ICYMI: Major ISPs say they won’t sell customers’ browsing histories after outrage over Congress vote to reverse  privacy rules. (Reuters)

Tesla releases self-driving data to the press when it has to defend itself — usually to say it wasn’t at fault in accidents — but won’t let the vehicle owners themselves see their driving logs, the Guardian reports.

Facebook, Mozilla, Craig Newmark and others launch News Integrity Initiative to focus on news literacy. (Poynter, CUNY announcement)

Google X employee working on Project Wing drone program collapsed on the job. He was then demoted and eventually pushed out of the company. (Business Insider)

Boy, 14, arrested in connection with Facebook Live sexual assault. Chicago police seeking other suspects, including at least one adult. (Reuters)

Amid advertising boycott, YouTube is allowing outside firms to verify ad quality. It’s also ramping up AI to try to deal with the problem of ads appearing on hate-filled videos. (Bloomberg)

Pittsburgh, one of the cities where Uber is testing self-driving cars, is putting pressure on the company to give back to the city. (WSJ)

Facebook is pushing the outside law firms it uses to be more diverse, requiring that women and minorities account for at least 33 percent of teams working on its legal matters. (NYT)

Apple, Amazon, Google join bidding for Toshiba’s NAND flash memory chip unit. (Reuters)

 

Photo: Amid outrage over lawmakers passing a bill to roll back privacy protections, Internet service providers such as Verizon are saying they won’t sell customers’ individual browsing histories to third parties. (Amy Sancetta/AP)

April 03, 2017 at 11:59PM

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