DINT #68 - Big Tech Doubles Down on Diversity

Plus: The Microsoft Outlook breach affects more than U.S. government agencies.

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Subsea Cable – China France and Peaceful Digital Infrastructure Expansion

Microsoft, Meta, Vodafone and Aqua Comms received the go-ahead to send data through the Amitie subsea cable network. It connects New England to England and Southern France. (Capacity Media / Saf Malik)

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Impact of Microsoft 365 Breach Expands Beyond Gov Agencies

State-sponsored hackers gained access to emails of 25 government agencies using Microsoft’s Outlook.com for email, the world discovered last month. New research reveals the impact of the breach is much more far reaching, even to your Microsoft accounts. See here for more. (Dark Reading / Tara Seals)

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Reddit Now Runs It: Beleaguered Platform Takes Over Account of Largest Protestor (The Verge / Jay Peters)

TSMC Says Lack of Skilled Workers Caused a 1-Year Delay for Its First US Chip Fab (Apple Insider / William Gallagher)

In NYC, think twice before jumping the turnstiles. The city is now employing AI to track subway fare dodgers. (NBCNews.com / Kevin Collier)

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Friday Feature

Since the Supreme Court’s recent ruling against race-based college admissions opponents of diversity efforts have been emboldened. Yet Big Tech stands firm, advocating for diversity and using the law to remain unbothered by critics of corporate diversity.

Apple and several other Big Tech peers signed an amicus brief (a statement of support for a particular decision before a court) imploring the Supreme Court to vote in favor of affirmative action and reward universities that reach out to underrepresented groups.

Microsoft, for its part, also stood up to the college affirmative action critics who have a target on diversity equity and inclusion’s (DEI) back.

Attackers of DEI have a playbook that looks like this: