A small, live‑streamed sit‑in at Microsoft’s Redmond campus that ended with arrests and multiple firings has blown open a simmering internal dispute over the company’s government contracts — and crystallized a broader industry reckoning about cloud ethics, sovereign deployments, and the limits...
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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’s president doubled down on a promise to investigate the company’s ties to Israel because a cascade of investigative reporting, a forceful United Nations inquiry, escalating employee activism, investor pressure and fresh allegations about large-scale use of Microsoft Azure by Israeli...
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Microsoft’s Redmond campus erupted into a high-stakes showdown this month as employee-led protesters occupied public spaces, splashed paint on the company sign, and drew law-enforcement intervention — all over one fundamental allegation: that Microsoft Azure has been used at scale by the Israeli...
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Microsoft has opened an externally supervised review after investigative reporting alleged that Israel’s intelligence services used a bespoke environment running on Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse very large volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications — a development that...
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Arkane Studios’ Lyon-based union has publicly joined calls for Microsoft to sever ties with the Israeli military, putting one of the games industry’s most respected studios at the center of a widening debate about cloud providers, AI, corporate responsibility, and the ethics of doing business in...
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Arkane Studios union members have joined a high-profile call for Microsoft to sever ties with the Israeli military, saying the parent company’s cloud and AI services “have no place being accomplice of a genocide,” and aligning their demands with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)...
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A torrent of controversy has erupted around Microsoft after reports from UN authorities and investigative journalists implicated the tech giant’s Azure cloud in Israel’s massive surveillance operations targeting Palestinians. Allegations range from storing intercepted calls and biometric data to...
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A storm of controversy has engulfed Microsoft amid widespread reports that its Azure cloud platform is central to the storage and processing of vast volumes of Israeli surveillance data on Palestinians, including biometric records, intercepted communications, and intelligence data allegedly used...
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When the meticulously orchestrated atmosphere of Microsoft’s milestone events is pierced by public protest, the resulting turbulence often reverberates far beyond the Redmond campus. This was made abundantly clear during both Microsoft’s high-profile Build developer conference and its...
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When allegations surfaced that Microsoft was censoring pro-Palestinian language in its internal communications, it sent shockwaves through the global IT community and raised urgent questions about the responsibilities of tech giants at the intersection of innovation, war, and human rights...
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The eruption at Microsoft’s Build developer conference, where a former firmware engineer publicly confronted CEO Satya Nadella onstage, has magnified simmering tensions over Big Tech’s involvement in the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict. As employee activism spills beyond digital forums into the...
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Microsoft’s confirmation of its involvement in supplying advanced artificial intelligence and cloud services to the Israeli military marks a significant and controversial moment in the relationship between Big Tech and armed conflict. The revelation, coming directly from the company after months...
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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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The war in Gaza has heightened world attention on the nexus of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and military conflict. As the devastation of the ongoing hostilities continues to prompt global condemnation and fierce debate, large tech companies like Microsoft find themselves at the...
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Microsoft’s handling of internal dissent and external scrutiny over its technology’s use in conflict zones has emerged as a focal point in the ongoing debate about the responsibilities of global tech companies. The company’s recent actions—firing employees for staging pro-Palestinian protests...
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Microsoft’s relationship with national governments has always been a point of intense scrutiny, but recent events have thrust the company into the global spotlight over its ties to the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the broader implications for ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. The...
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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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