Prego Records Dinner, Microsoft's 8,000 Buyouts, AI Breaks Cybersecurity, Xbox's Fake Price Drop

Prego just released a device that records your family's dinner conversations, and we have questions. This week, John and Logan break down the strangest brand pivot of the year, why Microsoft's 8,000 person buyout is really a layoff in disguise, how a new AI model is finding zero-day vulnerabilities at 10x the normal rate, and whether Xbox actually dropped prices or just rearranged the math. Stories in this episode: Prego's Connection Keeper, a tabletop recorder built with StoryCorps that asks families to press record on dinner. Opt-in surveillance wrapped in nostalgia. Microsoft's voluntary retirement offer to 7 percent of its U.S. workforce, the age plus tenure math behind who qualifies, and why targeted layoffs almost always follow a buyout that misses its number. Claude Mythos, the new Anthropic model surfacing decades old bugs and generating working exploits, the collapsing gap between finding a vulnerability and weaponizing it, and the embarrassing credential leak that exposed the system itself. Xbox dropping Game Pass Ultimate from $30 to $23 a month while quietly removing day one releases, and why this is a repositioning, not a discount. Plus John's take on parking meters in busy parts of town and why the system is built to catch you slipping. New episodes weekly. Follow Zero Downtime for cybersecurity, AI, privacy, and the tech stories that actually matter.