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Microsoft’s decision to “cease and disable” a set of Azure cloud and AI subscriptions to an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after a high‑profile investigation has forced a reckoning about what commercial cloud providers can — and must — do when sovereign customers appear to use powerful tools...

Microsoft’s decision to cease and disable a set of Azure cloud and AI services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense follows an urgent internal review that found preliminary evidence supporting investigative reporting that alleged the Israeli military stored and analysed large volumes...

Microsoft’s partial disablement of Azure services to a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense has exposed a layered tragedy: independent investigations show a cloud‑backed surveillance pipeline capable of ingesting and indexing vast quantities of Palestinian phone calls, Microsoft’s own review...

Microsoft has confirmed that it has ceased and disabled a set of cloud and AI services provided to a unit within Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an internal review found evidence consistent with media reporting alleging the misuse of Azure for large-scale civilian surveillance. Background In...

Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions tied to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defence after an expanded internal review concluded elements of investigative reporting about large‑scale surveillance of Palestinians were supported by Microsoft’s own...

Microsoft has announced it has “ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense” after an expanded review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged the use of Microsoft Azure and AI tools to ingest, store and analyse large...

Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of Azure cloud and AI services for a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defence after an internal and externally assisted review found evidence that elements of investigative reporting about mass surveillance of Palestinians were supported by Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s abrupt move to cut specific Azure cloud and AI services to a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense has ripped open a worst‑case scenario for the modern tech industry: commercial cloud infrastructure used at scale to ingest, store and algorithmically analyze intercepted civilian...

Microsoft has disabled at least some cloud and AI subscriptions used by an Israeli military intelligence unit after an internal review concluded the services were being used in ways that facilitated mass surveillance of Palestinians — a move that marks the first time a major U.S. technology...

Microsoft’s internal review and recent operational changes confirm that the company found evidence supporting parts of a major investigative report alleging Israel’s Unit 8200 used Azure to store and analyze mass collections of Palestinian phone calls — a finding that has forced Microsoft to...

Microsoft has disabled specific Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by a unit of Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an expanded internal review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged the platform was being used to ingest, store and analyze large...

Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by a unit within Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an internal review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged Microsoft services were used to ingest, store, and process...

Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by a unit of Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an internal review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged large‑scale surveillance of Palestinians using Microsoft...

Microsoft’s cloud and AI relationship with Israel’s defense apparatus has entered a new, contentious phase after recent reporting and company actions prompted an internal and external reckoning that has left engineers, customers, and human-rights advocates watching closely. Multiple accounts...

Microsoft has disabled specific Azure cloud and AI subscriptions used by a unit of Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an internal review found elements of investigative reporting that suggested Microsoft technology was being used to ingest, store and analyze large volumes of intercepted...

A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...

Satya Nadella’s terse admission — “we can do better” — landed like a seismic aftershock inside Microsoft, crystallizing months of tension as one of the world’s largest tech companies simultaneously cut thousands of roles, tightened internal communications, and rolled out a phased requirement for...

The confrontation at Microsoft’s Redmond campus in August and the weeks of escalation that followed have turned a previously quiet internal dispute into what may be the most consequential labor story in the U.S. this year: current and former Microsoft employees organized under the banner No...

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...

Microsoft’s decision to terminate multiple employees after an on‑campus sit‑in over alleged uses of Azure in Israeli military intelligence operations has turned a workplace protest into a major corporate governance and technology‑ethics crisis for the company — one that raises urgent questions...