Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, April 17, 2018.

Today is Apple reading a new subscription reading app.

Tech companies pledge not to help government's wage cyber war.

Facebook outlines its web tracking practices,

and Netflix has an earnings blowout.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Today, 34 tech companies signed what they are calling a tech accord, pledging not to help any government, including the U.S.

launch cyber attacks against any other government or entity.

The agreement is being called the Cybersecurity Tech Accord,

and companies led by Cisco, Dell, Facebook, HP, Microsoft, and Nokia,

all signed on to promise to defend customers around the world from hacks,

regardless of who might be behind the hack.

The agreement sets quote high cybersecurity standards that any company looking to join

the accord must adhere to.

The devastating attacks from the past year demonstrate that cybersecurity is not just

about what any single company can do, but also about what we can all do together.

So said Microsoft President Brad Smith.

Quote,

This tech sector accord will help us take a principal path

towards more effective steps to work together and defend customers around the world.

I think what we have learned in the past few years is that we need to work together in much bigger ways,

Mr Smith told the New York Times. that we need to work together in much bigger ways.

Mr. Smith told the New York Times,

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