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In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft

Why Microsoft has created its own print magazine
Microsoft has created its own print magazine, named Signal. It’s a reaction to the digital noise and ephemeral content.

In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft

Why Microsoft has created its own print magazine
Microsoft has created its own print magazine, named Signal. It’s a reaction to the digital noise and ephemeral content.

This is just sensationally bad: Microsoft struck a deal with the Israeli secret intelligence arm Unit 8200 that allowed it to build a powerful new mass surveillance tool that collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Tipp: Benachrichtigungen in Microsoft Outlook für Mac eingrenzen
Wenn Mails in Microsoft E-Mail-Software mehrfach annonciert werden, ist das nervig. So werden Sie störende Benachrichtigungen los.
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One might think that Microsoft's storage of the actual contents (not just the meta-data) all phone calls from Gaza and the West Bank might violate both US and EU privacy laws.
The US might ignore this, but I suspect the EU could use the GDPR to levy very large, punitive fines on Microsoft.
"‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians"

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe.
https://www.…

Microsoft bestreitet Mail-Blockade beim Internationalen Strafgerichtshof
Microsoft habe seine Dienste für den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof weder eingestellt noch ausgesetzt, behauptet Microsofts Präsident, Brad Smith.

Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system to collect millions of mobile phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank using Microsoft's Azure platform (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microso…

Fijn..... 🙄
"The system was built to sit on Microsoft’s servers behind enhanced layers of security developed by the company’s engineers with Unit 8200’s instructions. The leaked Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of the unit’s sensitive data may now be sitting in the company’s datacentres in the Netherlands and Ireland."

Microsoft-Entlassungen: Arkane-Gründer stößt wieder die Abo-Debatte an
Der Gründer des Spielestudios Arkane stößt nach der Xbox-Entlassungswelle die Grundsatzdebatte an: Ist das Spieleabo Game Pass schlecht für die Branche?