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    Microsoft Protests Spotlight Cloud AI and Mass Surveillance Debates

    A wave of worker-led direct actions that shut down parts of Microsoft’s Redmond campus this month has crystallized a larger crisis facing Big Tech: employee activism colliding with explosive investigative reporting, allegations that commercial cloud and AI services were used in mass surveillance...
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    Microsoft Azure under scrutiny: Israel data, external review and cloud ethics

    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...
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    Windows 7 FREE W7 Upgrades after 28 June 2009

    Hi guys It looks like anybody buying a computer after 28 June 2009 with VISTA ialready installed on it will be eligible for a FREE Windows 7 upgrade. What this also shows (if it's true) that W7 will be released earlier rather than later so Q3 2009 is a real possibility. The original article...
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