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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
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The Machine Is Thirsty. And It's Drinking Your Town Dry.
This is what progress looks like when nobody asks who pays for it. Let me ask you something nobody in the tech industry wants you to ask. Every time you type a question into ChatGPT, every time you ask an AI assistant to draft an email or explain your medication or summarize the news; where does the energy for that come from? Where does the water go? Because it goes somewhere. It always goes somewhere. And right now, it's going into the ground underneath communities that had
Michael Routhier
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