Microsoft is a major provider of cloud services and artificial intelligence for the Israeli military, according to internal documents related to the contracts between the Israeli Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Microsoft Israel obtained by Drop Site News. The leaked documents show that Israel’s usage spiked dramatically in the months following October 7, 2023 when Israel was using AI and other technology to wage its brutal war on Gaza.
The trove of documents reveals that Microsoft’s ties to the Israeli military are deeper and more lucrative than previously known, exposing the tech giant’s role in supplying advanced cloud and AI services during the war that multiple international bodies, including the International Court of Justice, ruled may plausibly constitute a genocide.
Leaked data show a dramatic spike in Microsoft cloud storage used by the Israeli military, jumping more than 155 percent between June 2023 and April 2024, and peaking just before the Rafah offensive in May 2024. Storage use is an important indicator showing the extent of AI usage, since storage usually grows along with the usage of other cloud products.
Was super obvious last year when Israel was running ads on blogs about their occupation. Super cringe AI stuff.
So I guess there is a use case for AI,
It’s almost like out of a movie, the technology can only be used to benefit evil.
Ironically, IBM also does a lot of business with the Israeli military.
Until proven otherwise assume every United States Corporation supports the Likud Government and their genocidal aspirations in one way or another, especially US Tech and Military Corporations.
The irony is in the fact they sold databases to the Reich for asset manager and business process management (hey kids, did you know the Holocaust forearm tattoos were the database entry ID? Can’t go wrong buying blue!)
(12° 23’ 23.456", 66° 15’ 45.789", skin=brown, has_glasses, action=looking_for_food) -> copilot rolls a 24 -> 13/24 it’s a terrorist -> BOOM
“Copilot, read this map of Gaza, and prioritising plausible denyability, give me a list of coordinates of sites that I can claim were being used by Hamas. Rank them in order of increasing atrocity, and make the list really really long, so that by the time we’re literally just bombing schoolchildren, everyone’s kinda got used to it and it’s not much of a headline.”
“Sure thing, IDF, I am well trained to help you with the media management of your atrocities, and you can rest assured that I won’t let facts get in the way of your genocidal plans. I am engineered from the bottom up to sound plausible and like I know what I’m talking about, and I never cared much for the distinction between reality and narrative-confirming fiction anyway.”
And what are we gonna do about it?
Install Linux
And libreoffice, and stop using copilot or game pass or any of their services
Stop using copilot? Has anyone started?
Unfortunately, a lot of people. Probably not so many here on Lemmy but a lot of people. And I even know a couple of them irl :(
How does Linux fair with gaming, game dev, and modding? I don’t wanna get on Linux and have to jump through hoops just to get Vortex working for Nexusmods or something.
Pretty well unless you’re playing AAA games with anticheat. Check out protondb for steamy details.
Modded Cyberpunk is kinda my thing right now, would that be a problem on Linux?
I can’t remember specifics but I remember a bunch of games i’ve modded don’t have tools supported on Linux.
Cyberpunk runs ±5 frames from windows for me on a 3070, I don’t mod it though so can’t speak to that
If you want those mindless online shooter games who slobber all over that absolutely useless anticheat software, then stay on windows honestly. Everything else is mostly even better on Linux because you have less overhead. Every single game I play works 100%.
If you want those mindless online shooter games who slobber all over that absolutely useless anticheat software, then stay on windows honestly.
But i’m currently on Windows and I don’t play those games. What I want is an alternative that I don’t have to jump through hoops and follow a recipe just to boot up games, and have access to modding tools that most if not all are only built for Windows.
I use Linux daily for work and gaming. Honestly, it’s not there yet for gaming. The closest you’ll get to “it just works” is with the Steam Deck, and even then, modding is not as straightforward most of the time. Very few things, gaming-wise, are easier than Windows and I would’ve struggled had I not already known my way around Linux, thanks to work.
I own a steam deck, almost all games that have mods are as easy as
- Download mod
- Drag and drop files into the “Mods” folder, provided the game has one
- Run game.
To me, that’s just as easy as Windows is. That’s how all mods used to be installed 10 years ago.
Good for Israel! Thanks Microsoft, the one good thing you’ve done recently
Boy I hope no one blows up your kids school, daycare, hospital, etc.
Thanks! Same for your family and public service buildings!
one night in Gaza would break you
Lmaooo
You are closer to living in a tent like the people in Gaza than you are to the oligarchs that want to level it for their beachfront properties.
Remember that next time you want to dehumanize the 50 000+ people that are dead.
(And, no, I don’t support Hamas)
Don’t start a war if you don’t want consequences
