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 wave of worker-led direct actions that shut down parts of Microsoft’s Redmond campus this month has crystallized a larger crisis facing Big Tech: employee activism colliding with explosive investigative reporting, allegations that commercial cloud and AI services were used in mass surveillance...
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Microsoft employees have publicly rebelled against the company after investigative reporting showed that Israeli military units used Microsoft Azure and commercial AI tools at scale to process intercepted communications — a relationship that employees say amounts to complicity in mass...
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A surge of concern ricocheted across the open-source software community last week when Mike Kaganski, a prominent LibreOffice developer, found himself locked out of his Microsoft account for seven frustrating days. This event, echoing recent reports of arbitrary account lockouts affecting...
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Microsoft’s relationship with the Israeli government and military has thrust the global tech giant into a maelstrom of shareholder dissent, mounting employee activism, and sharp external criticism. Over the past year, the company’s provision of Azure cloud infrastructure and AI services to the...
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The recent firing of Joe Lopez, a firmware engineer in Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure (AHSI), marks another high-profile chapter in the wave of employee activism sweeping through the tech industry. Lopez’s public protest at the Microsoft Build 2025 event, during which he interrupted...
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The hum of anticipation in Seattle was interrupted by a piercing cry at Microsoft’s headline Build event, when an engineer stepped into the spotlight—not to debut the next great innovation, but to confront the tech giant’s CEO, Satya Nadella, over Microsoft’s alleged role in the Gaza conflict...
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The controversy erupted at a major corporate milestone when two Microsoft employees were abruptly fired after staging a protest during the company’s 50th-anniversary celebration. In an incident that has raised questions about corporate ethics, free speech in the workplace, and the role of...
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The Microsoft Build conference was meant to spotlight the company’s groundbreaking advancements in artificial intelligence, but instead it exposed simmering tensions not just within the tech giant’s workforce but across the broader tech community. What unfolded during a security-focused...
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On the second day of Microsoft’s Build 2025 developer conference in Seattle, the atmosphere was unmistakably tense as yet another protester commandeered the spotlight—this time during a keynote by Jay Parikh, the company’s Executive Vice President of CoreAI. Shouting, “Jay! My people are...
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The atmosphere at Microsoft’s flagship Build developer conference was fractured this week as a dramatic protest unfolded before CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote address. The incident, which saw a Microsoft employee interrupting the event to denounce the company’s business ties with the Israeli...
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During Microsoft's 50th anniversary celebration in April 2025, the event was notably disrupted by employee protests against the company's alleged involvement with the Israeli military. These demonstrations have sparked a broader conversation about the ethical responsibilities of tech companies...
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The atmosphere at Microsoft’s annual Build conference, an event typically dedicated to celebrating technological innovation and engineering prowess, shifted dramatically when an internal protester—Joe Lopez, an Azure firmware engineer—interrupted CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote with an emotionally...
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The keynote address at Microsoft Build 2025 in Seattle was abruptly thrown into the spotlight—not for a major product reveal or a breakthrough AI announcement, but for a passionate protest reflecting the global tech industry’s increasingly complex entanglement with matters of war, ethics, and...
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As Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, prepared to share the company’s vision at the annual Build developer conference in Seattle, the meticulously orchestrated event was abruptly disrupted by the impassioned shouts of “Free Palestine!” cutting through the air. The interruption originated from...
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At a high-profile Microsoft event in Seattle, demonstrations by pro-Palestinian activists erupted into tense confrontations with security, underscoring how global conflicts increasingly spill into the world of tech and corporate culture. What was intended as a showcase for Microsoft’s latest...
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During Microsoft's annual Build developer conference, CEO Satya Nadella's keynote address was disrupted by an employee protest. The protester, identified as Joe Lopez, a four-year veteran of Microsoft's Azure hardware systems team, interrupted Nadella's speech by shouting "Free Palestine" and...
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Microsoft's stance on the use of its technologies in global conflicts has become a focal point in conversations about corporate responsibility, the ethics of artificial intelligence, and the power wielded by big tech within geopolitical arenas. Amid ongoing violence in Gaza, the tech giant has...
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The controversy surrounding Microsoft’s role in the Gaza conflict has thrust the tech giant—and the entire industry—into the global spotlight. At the heart of this firestorm are accusations that Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technologies, especially its Azure platform, have...
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