national security

For decades Microsoft was treated in Washington and in the enterprise as a virtual public utility; the latest reporting and independent analysis now force a reckoning about what decades of commercial decisions with China mean for U.S. national security, corporate governance, and the resilience...

Australia’s head of national security quietly used a generative AI chatbot to draft speeches and internal communications while the federal government simultaneously launched a sweeping “whole-of-government” AI plan that will push tools like Microsoft Copilot and a purpose-built GovAI assistant...

In a development that reads like a modern Cold War thriller, U.S. prosecutors this month accused a former executive tied to a government cyber-intelligence contractor of stealing and selling proprietary hacking tools to a Russian-based buyer for roughly $1.3 million — allegations that expose...

You can set up Windows 11 offline — but how you do it and whether the tricks still work depends on the build you’re installing and on Microsoft’s current enforcement of OOBE behavior. This feature guide walks through every practical method to complete a Windows 11 installation without an active...

President Trump’s public demand that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco has transformed what began as a corporate hire into a high-stakes clash over national security, federal contracting, and corporate independence — and it raises immediate, concrete questions about what private-sector executives can...

President Trump on Friday publicly demanded that Microsoft remove Lisa Monaco from her role as the company’s president of global affairs, tying his call to national‑security concerns about Microsoft’s government contracts and to recent company actions limiting some services to the Israel...

President Trump’s public demand that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco, the company’s newly minted president of global affairs, thrusts modern corporate-government relations into the crosshairs of partisan politics and raises immediate questions about how a major technology vendor safeguards sensitive...

President Donald Trump’s public demand that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco — the company’s newly installed president of global affairs and a former senior Justice Department official — escalated a fraught intersection of politics, corporate governance, and national security this week, touching on...

President Trump’s public demand that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco, the company’s president for global affairs, has opened a rare and volatile collision between the White House, Big Tech, national security policy, and corporate governance — unfolding amid Microsoft’s recent decision to restrict...

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...

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...

Ottawa’s recent disclosure that federal departments have spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. hyperscalers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and the Department of National Defence (DND) confirming mission‑critical workloads running on Amazon Web...

Ottawa’s revelation that federal departments have spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. hyperscalers since 2021 — with Microsoft receiving the lion’s share and the Department of National Defence (DND) confirming mission‑critical workloads running on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft...

Ottawa’s recent disclosure that the federal government has spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. providers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and portions of that budget underpinning what the Department of National Defence calls “mission‑critical”...

Microsoft’s announcement of an “urgent” external investigation into allegations that Israel’s Unit 8200 used Azure to store and process recordings of millions of Palestinian phone calls crystallizes a larger, underappreciated shift: the world’s leading cloud providers are not just vendors — they...

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...

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...

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...

The U.S. government has brokered an unprecedented deal that lets Nvidia and AMD resume sales of specific AI accelerators to China — but only after the companies agree to hand over a 15% share of revenues from those Chinese sales to the U.S. government as a condition of newly issued export...

Microsoft’s recent suspension of Nayara Energy’s access to its own data has ignited a storm of debate within India’s tech and policy spheres, highlighting profound risks surrounding national digital sovereignty and global cloud dependency. On July 22, 2025, Microsoft, the world’s largest...