Microsoft and Google Trouble (and Harmful Chatbots, DRM)
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Microsoft Internal Polls Leak Exposes Employee Discontent With Culture And Leadership: 'It's Not Right'
The company’s Daily Signals polls show that the percentage of employees witnessing a positive change in Microsoft’s workplace culture fell from 62% in January to 40% in July. Confidence in the effectiveness of organizational leaders also took a hit, dropping from 75% in January to 59% in July.
“Here employees take pay cuts as our company and leadership make record profits,” one employee wrote in response to CEO Satya Nadella‘s thank you note for a “landmark” fiscal year.
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Browser developers push back on Google's “web DRM” WEI API
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ChatGPT and other generative AI could foster science denial and misunderstanding – here’s how you can be on alert
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
Until very recently, if you wanted to know more about a controversial scientific topic – stem cell research, the safety of nuclear energy, climate change – you probably did a Google search. Presented with multiple sources, you chose what to read, selecting which sites or authorities to trust.