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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 dismiss four employees involved in high-profile protests at its Redmond campus crystallizes a broader and growing crisis at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, corporate governance, and human-rights accountability—one that was triggered by investigative reporting...

Microsoft’s decision to terminate four employees after a sit‑in at company president Brad Smith’s Redmond office crystallizes a broader crisis at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, human‑rights scrutiny, and escalating worker activism — a dispute triggered by investigative reporting that...

What began as a succession of internal petitions and quiet town‑hall complaints has hardened into a public, high‑stakes confrontation: Microsoft employees and allied activists have staged sit‑ins and encampments at the company’s Redmond campus, occupied the office of company president Brad...

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...

A small but highly visible standoff at Microsoft’s Redmond campus this week crystallized a wider crisis for the company: employees confronting management over allegations that Microsoft’s cloud and AI technologies have been used by the Israeli military to store and process mass surveillance data...

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...

A coordinated pair of stories surfaced this week that together sketch two urgent and contrasting dilemmas at the intersection of technology, power, and public life: investigative reporting that Israeli military intelligence has been using Microsoft’s Azure cloud to store and analyze massive...

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...

Microsoft 365 Copilot is reshaping how knowledge workers draft emails, summarize meetings, and automate tasks—but for regulated industries the productivity upside comes with a non‑negotiable requirement: auditable, defensible recordkeeping and governance. Enterprise compliance teams now face a...

Microsoft has opened an urgent external review after media investigations alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 used a bespoke area of Microsoft’s Azure cloud to collect and store immense volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications—raising fresh questions about cloud governance, data residency...

Microsoft has opened a formal inquiry after fresh reports allege that Israel’s elite intelligence unit used Microsoft Azure to store and analyse vast volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications, raising urgent questions about cloud governance, corporate responsibility, and the role of big...

Microsoft’s cloud business is at the center of a fraught ethical, legal and commercial storm after new reporting tied Azure to intelligence workloads used by Israel’s military, forcing a reckoning over what cloud providers can — and should — do when sovereign customers appear to repurpose...

Pakistan’s ongoing contest between authority and civil liberty took center stage on July 17, as the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and the European Union convened a high-profile national roundtable in Islamabad. This event, triggered by deepening anxiety over draconian restrictions...

In late June, a United Nations report delivered a seismic indictment of three of the world’s most powerful technology companies—Google, Amazon, and Microsoft—asserting that their cloud and AI platforms have made them complicit in what the report characterizes as genocide in Gaza. This...

Artificial intelligence has woven itself into the very fabric of modern daily life, infiltrating not just our computers and smartphones, but even the most mundane household gadgets—think toothbrushes and razors equipped with sensors, smart speakers that double as personal assistants, and fitness...

Microsoft's deepening collaboration with Israeli military and intelligence agencies has sparked significant debate and concern, particularly regarding the ethical implications of its technology being used in conflict zones. This article examines the extent of Microsoft's involvement, the nature...

Microsoft’s involvement in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has put the tech giant under a glaring spotlight, as allegations mount over the role of its cloud and artificial intelligence platforms in military operations unfolding in Gaza. The company has now publicly stated that there is “no...

Microsoft Copilot’s Intelligent Leap: Enhancing Productivity Amid a Surveillance Era The modern tech landscape is in a state of rapid evolution. On one hand, Microsoft's Copilot is getting smarter by the day, promising to revamp the way we work and interact with our Windows devices. On the...

A recent Fortune report has cast a spotlight on a critical and controversial topic: the use of advanced technologies from tech giants Microsoft and OpenAI by Israel in military operations. According to the article published on February 19, 2025, U.S. technology companies have quietly provided...