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Worlds collide at Amazon Spheres as pro-Palestinian group protests cloud giant’s Israel contracts

Carrying bullhorns and signs depicting Amazon executives as war criminals, about two dozen people protested outside the Spheres in Seattle on Thursday evening, calling on the company to stop providing technology to Israel for what they described as genocide in Gaza. Read More

Filing: Human rights proposals win more than 25% of votes at Microsoft shareholder meeting

Two human rights proposals at Microsoft’s annual shareholder meeting drew support from more than a quarter of voting shares — far more than any other shareholder proposals this year. Read More

Internal memo: Microsoft creates new way for workers to flag issues after Gaza surveillance probe

Microsoft is creating a new internal mechanism for employees to report concerns about how its technology is developed and used — making the process similar to how workers already flag incidents of workplace misbehavior, security issues, or legal concerns. Read More

Microsoft cuts off Israeli military’s access to tech that was reportedly used in Palestinian surveillance

The move by the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant is in response to an Aug. 6 report by The Guardian, which revealed how Microsoft Azure was being used to store and process millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank. Read More

Amazon suspends engineer who urged colleagues to oppose Israel contract, citing conduct policy

A Palestinian software engineer at Amazon says he was suspended this week after calling on colleagues to protest the company’s role in the “Project Nimbus” contract with Israel. Amazon cast the situation as a workplace conduct matter, not a political speech issue.
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Internal memo: Microsoft creates new way for workers to flag issues after Gaza surveillance probe

Microsoft cuts off Israeli military’s access to tech that was reportedly used in Palestinian surveillance

Protesters occupy Microsoft president’s office at Redmond HQ in latest action over Israel contracts

Microsoft calls protest a ‘destructive’ act by outsiders; group alleges police brutality in arrests

Seattle startup’s co-founder rejoins Israeli military in war: ‘I cannot just stand aside and do nothing’

Microsoft CEO ‘heartbroken’ by attacks on Israel; tech giant has nearly 3k employees in the country

Amazon CEO calls attacks on civilians in Israel ‘shocking,’ says company will support relief efforts

Israeli president coming to people’s homes via unique hologram video tech from Seattle startup

Archaeological dig in Jerusalem unearths evidence of biblical Babylonian conquest

A rush of rockets: SpaceX Falcon 9 puts Israel’s Amos-17 telecom satellite in orbit

Exclusive: Archaeologists confirm contested tale of the Crusades, 920 years after battle

NASA’s lunar orbiter spots the smoking hole left behind by Israel’s moon lander

Beresheet bummer: Investigation of Israeli lunar lander’s crash points to human factor

Israel’s Beresheet lander crashes on moon, ending privately funded space odyssey

Israel’s lunar lander switches from Earth orbit to moon orbit; touchdown in a week

Israeli lunar lander looks back at Earth

‘Big step for Israel’: SpaceX launches lunar lander along with high-flying satellites

To the moon? Israel’s SpaceIL says SpaceX will launch team’s lunar lander this year

Oracle opens second cloud accelerator program, attempting to court startups

Microsoft to acquire Israeli cyber security firm Secure Islands for reported $77M

Microsoft reportedly paying $200M to buy Surface digital pen maker N-trig