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Extinction Rebellion pelt Microsoft data center site with acid-filled balloons
Targets under-construction data center near Sloterdijk Station in Amsterdam
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Microsoft wraps up investigation into Israeli military's use of its cloud platform
Posits some steps to improve effectiveness of its human rights governance
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Iran makes further threats against Big Tech in the Middle East
Says it is in response to US attempts to kill Iranian leadership
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Microsoft suffered "power interruption" at West US cloud region in February
Details problem in incident report, with full outage avoided
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Excavation incident at Finnish data center construction site injures one
Police investigating after stones blasted too far
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Microsoft Azure experiences outage in European cloud region due to data center "thermal event"
While AWS sees brief outage in US
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US Defense Sec Hegseth confirms Chinese engineers no longer working on DoD's Microsoft services
"It's over," he summarizes
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Microsoft employees arrested during protests against company's ties to Israel
Employees and supporters protested at company's headquarters
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Microsoft launches investigation into Israeli military surveillance agency's use of its cloud platform
While protests are staged at the company's Netherlands data center said to host surveillance data
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Microsoft stops using China-based engineers in US military cloud computing systems
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders review of Pentagon cloud deals
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Three arrests in £3m fraud probe involving Microsoft data center in the Netherlands
UK authorities launch raids of six properties
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Microsoft to increase European data center capacity by 40 percent, pledges to protect local customers over US threats
Brad Smith pens plea to European community after Trump hostility
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Microsoft "investigating" limited Outlook and Teams outage
Mostly impacting European users
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State-linked Chinese entities use AWS for access to high-end chips - report
Continues to work around export restrictions
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Microsoft says Delta declined help for mass outage, calls for info on IBM and AWS cloud usage
CrowdStrike also says its offers of help were ignored
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Azure Front Door configuration change causes Microsoft cloud issues
Azure DevOps outage comes after several weeks of problems
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Delta claims CrowdStrike/Microsoft outage will cost airline $500m
But at least they didn't get a virus
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Microsoft hit by global outage of some Azure and Office cloud services
Nothing to do with CrowdStrike this time
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CrowdStrike offers $10 Uber Eats gift card to partners as apology for global IT outage
That'll make it right
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CrowdStrike IT outage brought down 8.5 million Windows devices, will take time to recover
Software was more likely to be installed on enterprise and critical IT
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Microsoft Azure outage and faulty CrowdStrike update grounds flights, delays trains, impacts banks around the world
Perfect storm of IT disasters
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Xbox Live back in the game after lengthy outage yesterday
But as of yet no explanation for the downtime has been given
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions nation-state nuclear-powered supercomputers surrounded by machine guns
That sure would spice up DCD's data center tours
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Microsoft Azure's March outage in South Africa due to subsea cable cuts
Company lost 3.5 out of four redundancy routes
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Nebraska man indicted for defrauding two cloud providers in cryptojacking scheme
Stole $3.5m of compute to make $1m in cryptocurrency
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Outages spike in West Africa: Subsea cable damage off Ivory coast
WACS and ACE cables said to be impacted
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Microsoft's LinkedIn suffers brief outage
Down around the world