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Google, Facebook & Microsoft top EU lobbying spending amid clampdown on Big Tech’s powers by Brussels – study

The paper, published by Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl campaign groups on Tuesday, revealed that the annual spending on lobbying…

3 years ago

US blaming China for Microsoft hack is an obvious deflection from the Pegasus spyware scandal

On Monday, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union accused China of being behind a hack of…

3 years ago

Pentagon cancels $10bn ‘JEDI’ cloud-computing contract with Microsoft amid Amazon dispute over deal

The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI) contract, part of the Pentagon’s modernization drive and worth up to $10 billion,…

3 years ago

Microsoft reports previously undetected security breach while investigating SolarWinds hack

The group, which Microsoft refers to as Nobelium, gained access to Microsoft customer support tools that allowed the cyber thieves…

3 years ago

As Bill and Melinda Gates split up, it’s time to divorce the Microsoft billionaire from calling the Covid shots for us

Gates and his wife of 27 years, Melinda, announced on Monday that they are divorcing. They will continue to run…

3 years ago

Microsoft lands $21 billion contract to arm US soldiers with futuristic augmented-reality headsets

The contract was announced on Wednesday and could earn Microsoft up to $21.88 billion over 10 years. Back in 2018,…

3 years ago

‘Largest-ever the world has seen’: Microsoft president claims 1,000+ software engineers must have worked on SolarWinds breech

The multifaceted breach, best-known for the company SolarWinds and its software, affected thousands of government and private computers in the…

3 years ago

Microsoft BANS donations to Republicans who objected to Biden victory & shifts lobbying focus to ‘promoting democracy’

The tech giant said on Friday that it will modify a policy change introduced last month freezing all political contributions,…

3 years ago

Bing there, done that: Microsoft could step in if Google exits Australia over content licensing row, PM Morrison says

Australia is mulling legislation that would require Google and Facebook to pay domestic media outlets for using their content on…

3 years ago

Real-life dystopia? Microsoft’s patent to reanimate dead as ‘chatbots’ has Black Mirror fans worried

The living-dead chatbot would be fed all available traces of the deceased – their “images, voice data, social media posts,…

3 years ago