Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...
A profound wave of controversy has engulfed Microsoft following revelations that its Azure cloud platform underpins a sweeping mass surveillance operation for Israel’s elite military intelligence Unit 8200, casting the technology giant and its leadership into the global spotlight over corporate...
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President Donald Trump's recent executive order aims to eliminate "woke" artificial intelligence (AI) from federal government use, mandating that AI systems procured by federal agencies adhere to principles of truth-seeking and ideological neutrality. This directive has sparked significant...
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With the stroke of a pen, U.S. President Donald Trump has thrown the tech industry—and America’s AI policy—into the center of a combustible new culture war. Framed as an effort to counter China’s bid for artificial intelligence supremacy, Trump’s trio of executive orders on AI seeks to loosen...
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Protests, Prosecutions, and Precedents: Examining the Fallout from the Elbit Systems Demonstration
As global awareness and activism around contentious international issues intensify, the methods used by authorities to respond to protests—especially those targeting defense or state-linked...
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A Radical Shift in Enforcement
Traditionally, the EEOC has been a staunch advocate for enforcing anti-discrimination laws, evidenced by landmark cases such as the one where an Army transgender employee was found to have been subjected to discrimination for being denied the use of her preferred...
A black Arkansas teen who graduated top of her class is suing her high school for racial discrimination after the principal decided to name a white student with a lower GPA as co-valedictorian.
Read Full Story: Student Sues School After Barred From Being Sole Valedictorian - ABC News
Dianne Irons is suing the city of Dallas for violating her civil rights after being arrested and thrown in a drunk tank for six hours.
Read Full Story: Stroke victim sues Dallas for Public Intoxication charge - Mix 102.9
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Think about this:
1. Cows
2. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments
COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept...
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