dual-use technology

Big Tech’s cloud stacks, commercial AI models, and social-media engines are no longer peripheral tools of war — they are integrated enablers that speed targeting, amplify state narratives, and complicate accountability in the Israel–Gaza conflict. Overview The last two years have exposed a...

Microsoft has quietly added a dedicated channel inside its internal Integrity Portal — called Trusted Technology Review — giving employees an explicit, anonymous route to flag concerns about how Microsoft builds, sells, or deploys its products after months of investigative reporting and an...

Microsoft has disabled a discrete set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after an external review found evidence that elements of investigative reporting about large‑scale collection and processing of Palestinian communications were supported by...

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...

Eliezer Yudkowsky’s call for an outright, legally enforced shutdown of advanced AI systems — framed in his new book and repeated in interviews — has reignited a fraught debate that stretches from academic alignment labs to the product teams shipping copilots on Windows desktops; the argument is...

Millog’s new Riihimäki test centre opens a direct lane between Nordic startups and NATO-linked defence customers, combining a low-threshold, standards-focused testing environment with HAMK’s GPU-backed AI infrastructure to accelerate dual-use technology development for both civil and military...

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...

A small, live‑streamed sit‑in at Microsoft’s Redmond campus that ended with arrests and multiple firings has blown open a simmering internal dispute over the company’s government contracts — and crystallized a broader industry reckoning about cloud ethics, sovereign deployments, and the limits...

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’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...

Microsoft’s president doubled down on a promise to investigate the company’s ties to Israel because a cascade of investigative reporting, a forceful United Nations inquiry, escalating employee activism, investor pressure and fresh allegations about large-scale use of Microsoft Azure by Israeli...

Microsoft’s Redmond campus erupted into a high-stakes showdown this month as employee-led protesters occupied public spaces, splashed paint on the company sign, and drew law-enforcement intervention — all over one fundamental allegation: that Microsoft Azure has been used at scale by the Israeli...

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...

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...

Arkane Studios’ Lyon-based union has publicly joined calls for Microsoft to sever ties with the Israeli military, putting one of the games industry’s most respected studios at the center of a widening debate about cloud providers, AI, corporate responsibility, and the ethics of doing business in...

Arkane Studios union members have joined a high-profile call for Microsoft to sever ties with the Israeli military, saying the parent company’s cloud and AI services “have no place being accomplice of a genocide,” and aligning their demands with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)...

A new wave of reporting is forcing Microsoft’s relationship with Israel’s security apparatus into the harshest spotlight yet, after fresh investigations alleged that the company’s Azure cloud became a backbone for storing and analyzing intercepted Palestinian phone calls at massive scale—and...