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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Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, was midway through his keynote address at the renowned Microsoft Build developer conference when the unexpected occurred—his presentation was disrupted by a protester demanding Palestinian rights. The incident, which swiftly drew widespread attention online, not...
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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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