Arizona early voting disrupted by global Microsoft Windows outage
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization that covers voting access and election administration across the United States. Sign up here for Votebeat Arizona's free newsletter. A worldwide Microsoft-based computer outage early Friday crippled the electronic systems Arizona's two largest counties use for early voting, forcing election officials to scramble to switch to backup plans to […]
Communist Party Talent Program Scooped Up Former Microsoft Researchers. Now They Work In China’s AI Industry
A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found that the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) talent recruitment program has hired former Microsoft researchers, including some who now work in China's artificial intelligence (AI) industry. The “Thousand People Development Program” is maximum China's talent recruitment program aims to poach U.S.-educated scientists and engineers for the Chinese Communist […]
Microsoft President Visited White House Dozens Of Times Amid Effort To Influence Biden On AI Policy
Microsoft President Brad Smith visited President Joe Biden's White House multiple times while the company sought to shape the administration's policy on artificial intelligence, according to visitor records. Leaders from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI were instrumental in advancing Biden's campaign, according to data from the Federal Election Commission. “Make no mistake about it, Microsoft […]
FACT CHECK: Is Microsoft Disabling The Computers Of People Who Share ‘Non-Mainstream’ Content Online?
post Shared by X Microsoft claims it is disabling the computers of people who share “fringe content” online in an effort to “combat misinformation” ahead of the 2024 presidential election. 🚨 Microsoft has announced plans to disable the computers of people who share “fringe” content online to combat so-called “misinformation” in the run-up to the […]
Microsoft Announces Hack Behind Early June Service Outages
In a release on Friday, Microsoft said the June 5 outage, which affected multiple services, was caused by hackers carrying out a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Attacks carried out by Storm-1359 did not compromise user data, tech giant said in article release, but instead made a name for itself by sabotaging various Microsoft […]
