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Mustafa Suleyman Leads Microsoft’s DeepMind Poaching Spree, Securing Key AI Engineers for Copilot
Microsoft has lured more than two dozen engineers and researchers away from Google’s DeepMind in a dramatic escalation of the artificial intelligence talent war, according to a new report from The...
Microsoft Lays Off 15,000, Scraps Flexible Remote Work in All-in Bet on AI
Microsoft has axed more than 15,000 jobs and is ending its era of ultra-flexible remote work, demanding employees return to offices three days a week as it channels $80 billion into artificial...
Microsoft Azure Hosts 11,500 TB of Israeli Military's Palestinian Surveillance Data, Investigation Finds
A colossal trove of raw intelligence—11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls and communications—has been quietly stored and processed on Microsoft Azure cloud servers under a...
Resume Prioritization: The Insider Strategy That Won Offers at Microsoft, Amazon, and eBay
The odds are stacked. For every software engineering opening at Microsoft, Amazon, or eBay, thousands of hopefuls hit submit. Yet during the wave of layoffs and hiring freezes that ravaged tech in...
Microsoft Poaches Over 20 DeepMind AI Talents, Pushing ‘Low Ego’ Culture Over Nine-Figure Pay
More than 20 top artificial intelligence researchers and engineers have left Google DeepMind for Microsoft in a matter of months, drawn not by unheard-of salaries but by a promise of something harder...
Engineer Storms Microsoft 50th Bash to Protest Azure's Role in Palestinian Mass Surveillance
A Microsoft software engineer disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary Copilot event in April 2025, storming the stage to denounce what she called the tech giant’s complicity in mass surveillance...
Leaked Documents Expose Microsoft Azure's Role in Storing 200 Million Hours of Palestinian Call Data for Israeli Military Targeting
Israel’s elite signals intelligence agency, Unit 8200, has used Microsoft Azure to warehouse more than 11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls—equivalent to 200 million hours of...
Microsoft Fixes One Windows 11 Nag, Introduces a Harder-to-Ignore OneDrive Prompt in Start Menu
Windows 11 testers are confronting a classic good-news-bad-news scenario. In the latest Dev channel build 26200.5722, Microsoft has finally streamlined the persistent “second-chance out-of-box...
Bing Diverts Searches for ChatGPT and Gemini to Microsoft’s Copilot, Igniting Debate Over Search Neutrality
Microsoft has quietly begun intercepting searches for top competing AI models on Bing and replacing the usual blue links with a prominent invitation to use its own Copilot assistant. Searching for...
The Evolution of Windows 11 Hardware Requirements: Community Workarounds, Risks, and Future Outlook
The recent evolution of Windows 11’s deployment strategy has dramatically reshaped the operating system’s public narrative, particularly around the contentious topic of hardware requirements....
Dr. Chan Wai Mun Joins VCI Global as Chief AI & Data Officer to Drive Enterprise AI Transformation
The appointment of Dr. Chan Wai Mun as Chief AI & Data Officer at VCI Global Limited marks a milestone not only for the firm but also for the broader movement toward artificial intelligence (AI)...
Microsoft and Israel’s Unit 8200: Unveiling the Controversial Azure-Powered Surveillance Partnership
A tectonic shift has emerged at the nexus of global technology, military intelligence, and human rights: Microsoft, one of the world’s most powerful technology corporations, stands at the center of...