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2025-09-25 16:07:04

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians | Israel | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/2025/sep

Equipped with Azure’s near-limitless storage capacity and computing power, Unit 8200 had built an indiscriminate new system allowing its intelligence officers to collect, play back and analyse the content of cellular calls of an entire population.

The project was so expansive that, according to sources from Unit 8200 – which is equivalent in its remit to the US National Security Agency – a mantra emerged internally that captured its scale and ambition: “A million calls an hour.”
According to several sources, the enormous repository of intercepted calls – which amounted to as much as 8,000 terabytes of data – was held in a Microsoft datacentre in the Netherlands. Within days of the Guardian publishing the investigation, Unit 8200 appears to have swiftly moved the surveillance data out of the country.

According to sources familiar with the huge data transfer outside of the EU country, it occurred in early August. Intelligence sources said Unit 8200 planned to transfer t…
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-23 10:37:21

Deep Synthetic Cross-Project Approaches for Software Reliability Growth Modeling
Taehyoun Kim, Duksan Ryu, Jongmoon Baik
arxiv.org/abs/2509.16939

@arXiv_eessSP_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-10 07:41:41

Cross-device Zero-shot Label Transfer via Alignment of Time Series Foundation Model Embeddings
Neal G. Ravindra, Arijit Sehanobish
arxiv.org/abs/2509.06966