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A New York Times report out of two thousand twenty six paints a striking picture inside Meta: employees say the company's aggressive push into artificial intelligence is hollowing out meaningful work, leaving engineers feeling sidelined by the very tools they helped build. It's a reminder that the human cost of automation doesn't always show up in the headlines — sometimes it shows up in the break room.
Shifting from the workplace to the inbox, a deep dive into email rendering explains why hero images still break in Outlook — and the fix involves techniques that predate most of the developers being asked to use them. Outlook's rendering engine leans on Word, not a browser, which means thirty years of workarounds remain stubbornly relevant. Legacy infrastructure has a long memory.
And on the privacy front, new research suggests that large language models can build surprisingly detailed personal profiles based solely on the pattern of ads you see — no browsing history required, no personal data accessed. The implication is unsettling: the shape of your attention, not its content, may be enough to give you away. Not even a VPN closes that gap.
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