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404 Media reported that Proton CEO Andy Yen has been pressuring employees to adopt AI tools more aggressively, reportedly disparaging workers who resist as 'losers.' The report details internal pressure tactics aimed at accelerating AI use across the company's workflows.
Proton CEO Andy Yen called off nearly company-wide 're-interviews' that would have required staff to justify their AI usage, a plan that employees feared could lead to firings. The reversal, detailed in a two-hour all-hands meeting, follows a 404 Media investigation showing Yen aggressively pushing AI adoption at Proton, including dismissing employee security concerns about rushing AI-written code into production.
404 Media reports that Proton CEO Andy Yen is pressuring engineers to rely more heavily on AI coding tools, based on interviews with eight current and one former employee, internal Slack messages, meeting recordings, and an AI manifesto from the company's CTO. Sources say Yen dismissed a request for extra security testing as 'loser thinking' and told staff that 'perception is more important than truth' regarding communication about Proton's post-quantum encryption rollout.
Proton AG is now hosting a map built from leaked Flock data showing over 300,000 license plate reader cameras, after Flock sent a cease-and-desist letter to the map's original creator, researcher Joshua Michael. Unlike Michael's U.S.-only site, Proton's version is accessible worldwide and lets users search camera locations by ZIP code, though it reflects a November 2025 snapshot rather than live data.
Proton, maker of Proton Mail and Proton VPN, has taken over hosting of an interactive map tracking Flock Safety's license plate readers and AI surveillance cameras across the US. The tool was created by security researcher Joshua Michael in September and survived a trademark complaint from Flock demanding its removal. Proton says the map counts over 214,000 Flock devices in service, far above the 120,000 Flock itself reported this summer.
An open-source app called DroidDeck lets supported Snapdragon Android devices run Valve's ARM64 Linux Steam client locally in Big Picture mode, without streaming, root access, or replacing Android's OS. Windows titles run via Proton with FEX handling x86 translation, and users can download games from their existing Steam libraries directly onto the device. It requires Android 9 or newer, Adreno 730+ graphics (6xx experimental), and several gigabytes of storage for the runtime and optional components.
PostEra, a Y Combinator-backed biotech company, is hiring AI researchers to expand its agentic research team. The company uses its Proton platform to speed up medicinal chemistry work, has nominated multiple clinical candidates in women's health and fertility, and has secured over $1 billion in AI partnerships with firms including Pfizer and Amgen. It also runs an antiviral drug discovery center backed by a major NIH grant.
A developer has released an open-source, unofficial FUSE-based filesystem that mounts Proton Drive directly into the Linux file system. The tool lists files via Proton's metadata and downloads file content on demand rather than syncing everything upfront, with remote changes propagated through Proton's event feed and local writes buffered before upload. The project is not affiliated with or supported by Proton AG, and the creator describes it as early-stage software that has only been tested on one Proton Drive share.
Physicists with the STAR Collaboration, publishing in Science, report new experimental evidence that a quantity called baryon number—assigned to protons and neutrons—resides not in their constituent quarks but in gluon structures known as baryon junctions. Protons and neutrons are baryons made of three quarks, and the finding bears on how this conserved quantity is physically carried within these particles.
AnyPS5 is an open-source tool that converts PS5 executables into Windows and Linux formats and recompiles shaders into SPIR-V for Vulkan, acting as a compatibility layer rather than a traditional emulator. Its GitHub page notes test builds have booted some games to the main menu, with a few reaching gameplay with audio, though a public build has not been released.
A blogger recounts a years-long struggle with undiagnosed digestive issues that culminated in emergency gallbladder removal surgery in February 2024. The post details a long diagnostic journey involving nutritionists, elimination diets, and misattributed symptoms before a gastroenterologist identified gallbladder sludge via ultrasound. The writer shares this account publicly to add first-hand patient experience to online health discussions.
A newly published Nix flake automates installing Microsoft 365 (click-to-run Office) on Linux without a virtual machine, using the umu-launcher tool alongside GE-Proton, the gaming-focused Wine build from Valve and GloriousEggroll, with Bottles' ProtoSoda Wine core offered as an alternative runner. The project doesn't bundle any Microsoft software itself; instead its ms365 script fetches the Office Deployment Tool and Office files at install time, requiring users to supply their own Microsoft 365 license and sign in. The approach builds on prior community work, including Bottles' reports of Office 365 running on Wine and older ruados/eylenburg registry and DLL tweaks.