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Jay Hill / Sam Bushman
When Technology Stops Serving You and Starts Owning You | 03-20-26
49 minutes Posted Mar 20, 2026 at 7:07 pm.
Meta Layoffs — 20% workforce cuts to fund AI infrastructure
Death of the Metaverse — Zuckerberg's VR bet failing
AI & the Productivity Myth — Does AI actually save time?
The Study — 443 million hours of tracked work activity
Gaming & Brain Scans — What 6,000 scans reveal about addiction
Gen Z Pushback — Reducing social media engagement
AI Code Quality — Carnegie Mellon study on AI-generated code
Windows Notepad Vulnerability — CVSS 8.8 security flaw
Microsoft 365 AI Watermarking & "Proudly Human" Labels
Nano Pro — $100 Credit Card-Sized Phone
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Sam Bushman and Jay Harrison break down the biggest stories in tech — from Meta's massive layoffs and the death of the Metaverse, to a sobering study showing AI is actually increasing workloads instead of freeing up time.
Plus, what 6,000 brain scans reveal about gaming addiction, Gen Z's social media pushback, a dangerous Windows Notepad vulnerability, AI watermarking in Microsoft 365, and a $100 credit-card-sized phone shaking up the market.
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