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Proton, the Swiss privacy company behind Proton Mail, is putting some employees through what it calls re-interviews, asking staff how they use AI at work between November fourth and eleventh. A leaked internal email suggests the answers could affect roles, responsibilities, and even continued employment. Proton denies this is cover for layoffs, but the move fits a troubling pattern of companies using AI adoption as a performance metric with real consequences.
Meanwhile, South Korean police have booked eighty Tesla drivers for using aftermarket hardware to unlock Full Self-Driving in vehicles not legally permitted to run it in the country. Officers seized twenty-one of the devices in what authorities are calling the largest crackdown yet on FSD jailbreak hardware, a phenomenon that has been quietly spreading across China, Europe, and Korea for some time now.
And in workplace culture news with a data edge, PRRI's two thousand twenty-six American Values Survey finds a sharp divide over whether empathy is actually a good thing. Most religious groups and the unaffiliated broadly see it as a foundational social value, but only forty-two percent of white evangelical Protestants agreed, making it one of the starker fault lines in the survey's findings.
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