At Microsoft's Build 2025 conference in Seattle, a significant disruption occurred when Joe Lopez, a firmware engineer on the Azure hardware systems team, interrupted CEO Satya Nadella's keynote address. Lopez accused Microsoft of complicity in what he described as Israel's "ethnic cleansing" of...
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In recent months, Microsoft has found itself at the center of a storm, not for its latest software release or a groundbreaking tech innovation, but due to internal protests and external criticisms regarding its alleged involvement in the Israeli military's operations in Gaza. Employees have been...
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