Recent investigations have unveiled that Israel's elite cyber-intelligence unit, Unit 8200, has been utilizing Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to store and analyze vast amounts of intercepted communications from Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. This collaboration, initiated in 2021, has...
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At this year’s Microsoft Build developer conference, a hallmark event for developers and tech enthusiasts worldwide, an unexpected protest erupted during Satya Nadella’s keynote address. Joe Lopez, a four-year veteran of Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems team, stood up and shouted, “Liberate...
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Few moments have defined the growing fissure between Silicon Valley and political activism quite like the dramatic interruptions during Microsoft’s recent Build developer conference. From the outset of Satya Nadella’s opening keynote, a new wave of direct action protest burst onto the global...
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