top of page
WhatsApp's New "Read and Delete" Feature Is Coming, And It's Actually a Big Deal for Your Privacy
WhatsApp is testing a new feature that deletes messages after they've been read, not just after a timer. Here's what you need to know. Okay, this is a good one. WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Meta and used by over two billion people worldwide, is quietly testing a new feature that will delete your messages automatically after the other person has read them. Not after a timer. After they've actually read it. That's a meaningful difference. And if you care about your priv
Michael Routhier
Featured Post
Big Tech Watch
The Company That Built It Is Begging You to Stop
The company building one of the most powerful AI systems on earth just raised its hand. What they said next should change how you think about everything. I want you to read one sentence. Just one. And then I want you to sit with it for a moment before you read the next one. "We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development." That sentence was not written by a protester. It was not written by a politician. It was
Michael Routhier
Jun 58 min read
The Man Who Built AI Says It Could End Us. Nobody Is Listening.
The man who helped build modern AI says we have roughly ten years to change course. He is not guessing. I want to tell you about a man. Not a journalist. Not a podcaster. Not someone with a book to sell or a documentary to promote. The actual man. One of three or four human beings on earth most responsible for making AI what it is today. And he is terrified of what he built. Who He Is And Why It Matters His name is Yoshua Bengio. He is the most-cited living scientist in the w
Michael Routhier
May 216 min read
Zuckerberg Just Fired 8,000 People to Pay for AI. And His Stock Barely Flinched.
8,000 jobs. $145 billion in AI spending. The stock barely moved. Let me give you the short version first. Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp; is cutting approximately 8,000 jobs starting this week. On top of 1,000 cuts in January. On top of hundreds more in March. That's before whatever they're planning for August. At the same time, Meta has increased its capital expenditure projections for 2026 by up to $10 billion. Total AI spending for the year:
Michael Routhier
May 196 min read
Apple's $250M Siri Settlement: Here's How to Claim Your Money Before the Deadline
You bought the phone. You trusted the advertising. Turns out the features Apple was selling you weren't ready yet. A court agreed and now there may be money owed to you. Let me tell you something that doesn't happen very often. A trillion-dollar company got caught. Admitted it. And now has to pay. Apple has agreed to a $250 million settlement over a class action lawsuit that accused the company of advertising AI-powered Siri features that, and this is the important part, didn
Michael Routhier
May 74 min read
bottom of page