Tag Archives: Israel

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Google workers stage sit-ins to protest company’s work with Israel – The Washington Post  The Washington Post Google employees protest company’s work with Israeli government  The Hill Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel’s Government  WIRED Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Iran fires drones and ballistic missiles at Israel in unprecedented revenge attack  Yahoo! Voices Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministry  TIME Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Won’t Say Anything About Israel Using Its Photo Software to Create Gaza “Hit List”  The Intercept Source link

Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Google confirmed it fired an employee who protested publicly against Israel. The worker stood and shouted during a presentation by Google Israel’s managing director. The employee was protesting Project Nimbus, Google’s $1.2 billion contract with Israel’s government. A Google engineer who publicly protested a talk by the head of Google Israel is now out of a job. The employee… Source link

There was more internal controversy this week, also tied to the crisis in Gaza. Ahead of an International Women’s Day Summit in Silicon Valley on Thursday, Google’s employee message board was hit with an influx of staffer comments about the company’s military contracts with Israel. The online forum, which was going to be used to help inform what questions were asked of executives at the event, was shut down for what a spokesperson described to CNBC as “divisive content that is disruptive to… Source link

A Google engineer sparked a ruckus at a New York tech conference when he accused an executive from the search giant’s Israel-based operations of “powering genocide” by cooperating with the Israeli government. Barak Regev, managing director of Google Israel, was delivering a lecture at the “Mind the Tech” conference in New York City on Monday when a man wearing an orange Google T-shirt stood up and identified himself as an engineer in the company’s Cloud… Source link

More than four months since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip. The conflict, now the deadliest between the warring sides since Israel’s founding in 1948, shows no signs of letting up soon and the brief cease-fire that allowed for over 100 hostages to be freed from Gaza remains a distant memory. Click here for updates from previous days. Latest Developments Feb 25, 7:06 PM Netanyahu’s office presents war cabinet… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Israel bombs Gaza after warning Hamas nears ‘dissolution’  Yahoo News Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Google Maps and Waze temporarily disable live traffic data in Israel  CNN Google and Apple disable map functions in Israel, Gaza Strip as invasion looms  The Hill Google Maps and Waze temporarily disable live traffic data in Israel  Channel3000.com – WISC-TV3 Source link