Israel’s reliance on commercial cloud and AI tools has crossed a new threshold: investigative reporting and follow‑up coverage show the Israeli military’s Unit 8200 used a segregated Microsoft Azure environment to store and process huge volumes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls, and that AI...
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A handful of Arkane Lyon developers went public this month with an uncompromising demand: Microsoft must cut any ties that enable violence in Gaza — and remaining silent, they said, is tantamount to complicity. That open letter, penned by members of the French game‑workers’ union STJV at Arkane...
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Microsoft employees have erected a sustained sit‑in on the company’s Redmond campus, transforming a simmering internal dispute over Israel‑linked contracts into a high‑visibility standoff that raises fundamental questions about cloud ethics, corporate accountability, and the limits of vendor...
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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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Microsoft has opened a formal review into allegations that its cloud and AI technologies were used by Israeli security forces for large‑scale surveillance in Gaza and the West Bank — a development that escalates months of investigative reporting, employee protests, and policy debate about the...
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A storm of controversy has erupted over revelations that Israel’s elite intelligence agency, Unit 8200, has leveraged Microsoft Azure cloud technology to store and process vast quantities of intercepted Palestinian phone conversations—a move that has ignited urgent debate around surveillance...
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Microsoft finds itself at the epicenter of a rapidly escalating controversy after joint investigative reports revealed that its flagship cloud platform, Azure, may have played a critical role in facilitating mass surveillance operations against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Sources...
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The latest survey from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation paints a dire picture for Gaza’s dwindling food resources: just 2.3 square kilometres of its once-productive farmland remain both accessible and undamaged. In the midst of a cascading humanitarian disaster, the recent...
In the besieged Gaza Strip, where over two million Palestinians face acute hunger, the reliance on airdropped humanitarian aid has proven both inadequate and perilous. Despite the presence of more than 22,000 aid trucks stationed just kilometers away, Israeli restrictions have permitted only 14%...
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Microsoft's recent decision to block internal emails containing terms such as "Palestine," "Gaza," and "genocide" has ignited a contentious debate within the company and the broader tech community. This move, aimed at curbing politically charged communications, has been met with accusations of...
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Microsoft has recently come under scrutiny for implementing internal email filters that block messages containing terms such as "Palestine" and "Gaza." This action has sparked significant debate regarding corporate censorship, employee free speech, and the company's involvement in geopolitical...
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Microsoft has reportedly implemented a policy that blocks internal emails containing the words "Palestine," "Gaza," or "genocide" on its Exchange servers. This action was first detected by "No Azure for Apartheid," a group of pro-Palestine Microsoft employees, shortly after the company's Build...
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The Dark Intersection of AI and Conflict: Tech's Role in Gaza Genocide
An incident that has shaken the technology world to its core unfolded during a major tech milestone event, cleaving open a deep ethical debate about the role of artificial intelligence and big tech companies in global...
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JERUSALEM – A bomb struck a crowded bus stop in central Jerusalem Wednesday, killing one woman and wounding more than 20 other people in what authorities said was the first major Palestinian militant attack in the city in several years.
The bombing brought back memories of the second...