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A ‘customer success story’: leaked documents show Cisco doubled down on Israeli military deals during Gaza war

Tech giant leaped to shore up relationship even as company was roiled by worker protest over its role in the war A year into the war in Gaza, the networks of Israel’s military intelligence community were plagued with technical problems. There were major, multi-hour outages to their systems, and repeated crashes. Built-in debugging mechanisms failed. The problems, which started as intelligence operations were undergoing updates to digital infrastructure, became so persistent as to undermine the “confidence” of Israeli intelligence agencies in one of their top network providers: the multinationa

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Entertainment

Amy Winehouse inspired me to quit a soul-crushing job

I was driving to work feeling miserable when Rehab came on – and I realised there’s more to life than a steady wage in a job you despise At 6am on a bleak October morning in 2006, I was driving down the North Circular in London to a job I hated. I usually kept the radio low, a background murmur to keep me focused on the road. But that morning I turned up the volume allowing the buoyant bassline from Amy Winehouse’s Rehab to reverberate through my Ford Ka. As Amy’s rich voice conveyed the depths of her despair, I stared blearily at the empty road ahead and wondered how I’d taken such a wrong tu

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