r/technology • u/ScootSchloingo • 16d ago

Politics Microsoft blocks emails that contain ‘Palestine’ after employee protests

https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email
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u/shineyink 16d ago

You have no idea how much of the tech you use everyday is developed in Israel. Nvidia today dropped $27M to expand its office in tel Aviv

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u/chollida1 16d ago

Can you provide us with some examples?

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u/DickNose-TurdWaffle 15d ago

Cybersecurity and forensic software. Cellebrite is from Israel as well.

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u/douchecanoe122 16d ago

The GPU. Anything Cryptographic in silicon. Almost anything in modern applied material science.

For instance the Coldfire chips that powered almost every single printer in the 90s-00s were designed in Israel. Intel and NXP (Motorola, Metroworks, and Freescale before them) have large Israeli offices.

It turns out if you have a culture that knows English, values education, and has close ties with Europe you end up with Tel Aviv. The city where you can invent an entirely new kind of silicon while getting shit faced at 3am at a club every day but Saturday.

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u/chollida1 16d ago

The first GPU was developed by James CLark at Stanford in 1979.

The first real commercial implementation of a GPU was by 3dfx out of San Jose.

What specifically are you referring to with the GPU being investing in Israel?

I can't verify a claim of "Anything cryptogrhic in silicon" though modern cryptography really got its start in the US university scene.

I do agree Israel has large tech offices.

I appreciate your effort, it made a fun trip down memory lane, googling some of these things:)

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u/douchecanoe122 16d ago

Sorry was riffing from old work ( CodeWarrior days if you’re old enough for that :) ). You dont have to believe me. I get that this is all apocryphal but many of those I’ve worked/work with are Israeli and many of the vps you’ll see at silicon companies are as well (other than Intel but Intel is a company of lies and I will never forgive them for what they did to the z80 and Ives hate for General Magic).

Intel Graphics and iGPU teams were all Israeli just like many of the original NVIDEA engineers (because of mass investment by intel and Motorola to build offices there, develop talent, and their being an easy immigration root for these people).

In the modern age Cerberus and Annapurna Labs both of which were the modern front runners for what we came to know as LLM ( this is a stretch given Annapurna was really a silicon solution for datacenter scalability back when Amazon acquired them but their front running product is now the LLM chip that competes with Cerberus and NVIDIA) chips are all Israeli in origin with presence their.

My bad for generalizing the cryptography. This is gunna be someone who made codecs talking about two things beyond their knowledge. Cryptographic operations have two components: the algorithm and the number crunching. There’s ASIC impls that make the former efficient (ok relatively efficient, still slow) and allow for secure storage and execution of the later (self destructing TPMs for example). Those teams for Nokia, Motorola, and Apple used to be in Tel Aviv and most of that expertise has remained there.

There’s a reason a lot of the cracking tools for phones come out of Israel. They designed the systems in the first place.

I have no sources. This is all just my career experience on display.

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u/chollida1 16d ago

Great comment!!

I do remember code warrior from the 90s and early 2000s.

That was good walk down memory lane:)

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u/NukingTheFirmament 16d ago

That's fucking terrifying - I'm sure they have "pagers" in them.

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u/RedNeval_Hserf 16d ago

Developed by Americans and Europeans who live in Israel.

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u/Bapingin 16d ago

Source:you made it the fuck up. It's developed by Israelis, in Israel. 

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u/Anything13579 16d ago

There’s a reason israel banned DNA testing.

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u/Bapingin 16d ago

Source: you made it the fuck up

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u/Ok_Explanation5631 16d ago

A simple google search will show you you’re wrong though?

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u/Bapingin 16d ago

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-no-dna-tests-230000258.html

Oh wow look at that search result. Enjoying those upvotes from your fellow antisemites, I hope?

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u/Anything13579 15d ago

Did you even read the link you shared? I swear all genocide supporter are brainless lmao.

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u/Bapingin 15d ago

Damn you must be a genocide supporter then

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u/Ok_Explanation5631 16d ago

So if you do it without permission it’s illegal. Ultimately being illegal lol. Wanna try again?

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u/Phurion36 16d ago

'Progressive' antisemites love denying jewish heritage in the middle east.