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Microsoft

Microsoft data center in The Netherlands. | ANP/ZUMA Press/Newscom

Surveillance

'Tracking Everyone, All the Time': What Americans Need To Know About Israel's Secret Eavesdropping Program

Unit 8200's dragnet was designed by a U.S.-trained general, is powered by American-owned cloud computing, and could spell the future for domestic surveillance at home.

Matthew Petti | 8.7.2025 3:05 PM

Illustration of Skype's market share tanking | lllustration: Eddie Marshall | Midjourney

Antitrust

Skype's Shutdown Proves Bigger Isn't Always Better 

The death of a onetime powerhouse carries a lesson for antitrust enforcers—if they’ll listen.

Jack Nicastro | 5.7.2025 10:49 AM

Aerial view of a data center under construction. | ID 348250050 ©  Wirestock | Dreamstime.com

Subsidies

The New Stadium Scam Is a Server Farm

Local governments love giving sweetheart deals to billion-dollar companies—now data centers instead of football stadiums.

Marc Oestreich | 5.6.2025 11:45 AM

An illustration of a referee in a European Union uniform giving a red card to a player in a U.S. uniform | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson

Technology

The European Commission Is Assaulting American Tech Companies

Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and others have all faced legal action from the European Union in recent years.

Jack Nicastro | 3.23.2025 6:00 AM

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Tariffs

Trump's Tariffs Could Be the Final Boss for Affordable Gaming

As Trump’s trade wars with Canada and China escalate, tariffs could push console prices up, threaten U.S. jobs, and disrupt a $66 billion industry.

Daniel Idfresne | 3.17.2025 3:05 PM

Nuclear cooling towers with a Windows logo coming out of one. | Illustration: Adani Samat

Nuclear Power

Three Mile Island Nearly Killed Nuclear. Now It's Coming Back.

Microsoft has agreed to purchase Three Mile Island's energy to power its AI data centers for the next 20 years. It's the first time a U.S. nuclear reactor will come out of retirement.

Zach Weissmueller | 9.26.2024 10:45 AM

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Nuclear Power

The Owner of Three Mile Island Is Turning the Nuclear Power Plant Back on to Fuel Microsoft's AI Operations

In this latest skirmish between the future and its enemies, the future won.

Christian Britschgi | 9.20.2024 11:55 AM

An emoticon frowny face against a blue computer background, with white text saying "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart"—the dreaded "Blue Screen of Death" for Microsoft users | Wutianzeri | Dreamstime.com

Regulation

E.U. Regulations Made the CrowdStrike Fiasco Much Worse

The Brussels Effect makes meddlesome European regulations a global problem.

J.D. Tuccille | 8.9.2024 7:00 AM

Javier Miles smiles on stage |  Luciano Gonzalez Torres / Xinhua News Agency/Newscom

Argentina

The World's First Libertarian President

Plus: A listener asks the editors about libertarians and "reflexive contrarianism."

Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 11.20.2023 4:13 PM

Javier Milei | https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1703178063306203397

Argentina

My Own Personal Evita

Plus: OpenAI apocalypse, New York's problematic pie, Backpage trial concludes, and more...

Liz Wolfe | 11.20.2023 9:30 AM

Activision Blizzard logo on phone in front of screen with Microsoft logo | Cfoto/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Federal Trade Commission

Court Greenlights Microsoft Acquisition of Video Game Powerhouse Activision Blizzard

Plus: California social media law could backfire, Massachusetts may ban the sale of phone location data, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.12.2023 9:30 AM

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Artificial Intelligence

Google Comes Out Against a 'Department of A.I.'

As the company explains, pre-market licensing would delay—or even deny—our access to artificial intelligence's potential benefits.

Ronald Bailey | 6.16.2023 1:40 PM

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Artificial Intelligence

How To Restrain the A.I. Regulators

A more flexible model of oversight avoids hyper-cautious top-down regulation and enables swifter access to the substantial benefits of safe A.I.

Ronald Bailey | 5.30.2023 5:00 PM

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China

Banning Chinese Products in the Name of 'National Security' Could Have Disastrous Consequences

It would result in shortages, decreases in productivity, and higher production costs affecting millions of American workers and nearly every consumer.

Veronique de Rugy | 3.23.2023 2:35 PM

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Technology

Today's Tech Giants Show That Market Dominance Is Transitory

Market forces have historically disrupted the tech sector and will continue to do so.

David McGarry | 1.25.2023 4:13 PM

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Antitrust

Why In the World Is the FTC Trying to Block Microsoft From Buying Call of Duty?

Antitrust regulators don't seem to understand how the video game industry works.

Peter Suderman | 12.14.2022 1:31 PM

8123188_image | Graphic by Lex Villena

Bitcoin

Microsoft Is Using Bitcoin to Help Build a Decentralized Internet

The ION project promises to give individual users absolute control over their online identity and privacy.

Nick Gillespie | 7.9.2021 9:35 AM

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Reason Roundup

Is Microsoft 'Out To Get Conservatives'? And Is That Jim Jordan's Business?

Plus: Biden to back bill ending crack/cocaine sentencing disparity, the truth about tech startup creation, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.22.2021 9:30 AM

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Facial Recognition

Microsoft and Amazon Adopt Temporary Bans on Police Use of Their Facial Recognition Tech. That's Not Nearly Enough.

Both companies need to join IBM and others in entirely abandoning the development of this mass surveillance technology.

Ronald Bailey | 6.11.2020 3:20 PM

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Reason Roundup

A New Front in Trump's War on Amazon

Plus: Thousands of troops leaving Afghanistan, TV networks sue streaming site Locust, Gabbard calls Harris response "pathetic," and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.2.2019 9:30 AM

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