Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of some services after review over mass surveillance of Palestinians

Microsoft says it has stopped providing some of its cloud and AI services to Israel’s Ministry of Defense following a report in Britain’s Guardian newspaper, which alleged Israel used the services to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Guardian report, published in August in conjunction with Israeli outlets…

Read More

Amazon Web Services outage persists as recovery stalls, impacting many websites and apps

Internet users on Monday afternoon continued to report issues with platforms that rely on Amazon Web Services, hours after Amazon’s cloud computing unit said it was recovering from an outage that started earlier in the day.  The Amazon division provides remote computing services to many apps, websites, governments, universities and companies. Early Monday, users reported…

Read More