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Microsoft has moved to sever parts of the Israeli Ministry of Defence’s access to Azure cloud and certain AI services after an internal review found evidence supporting a joint investigation alleging that an elite Israeli military intelligence unit used Microsoft’s platform to collect, store and...

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 has formally disabled and ceased a set of Azure cloud and AI services used by a unit of the Israel Ministry of Defense after an internal review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged the platform was being used to store and process large volumes of...

Microsoft’s cloud business has taken an unusually public step: the company says it has disabled specific Azure cloud and AI subscriptions tied to an Israeli Defence Ministry unit after investigative reporting revealed those services were used to store and process massive volumes of intercepted...

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 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...

MIT’s new AI system, VaxSeer, promises to sharpen the blunt instrument of seasonal influenza vaccine selection by predicting which viral strains will dominate and which vaccine candidates will provide the best antigenic match months before manufacturing decisions must be locked in. Background...

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...

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...

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 Redmond campus erupted this week when a small group of protesters — including two current employees — broke into the office of company president Brad Smith and staged a sit‑in that culminated in arrests and immediate terminations, intensifying an already fraught, months‑long dispute...

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 employees have publicly rebelled against the company after investigative reporting showed that Israeli military units used Microsoft Azure and commercial AI tools at scale to process intercepted communications — a relationship that employees say amounts to complicity in mass...

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...