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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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Transcript: Episode 7 - The Honest Conversation About AI Nobody Else Is Having
Hey, welcome back to Tech 4 Grown-Ups. I'm really glad you're here today, because today we're doing something a little different. We're not doing a how-to, and we're not walking through settings or talking about a specific scam. Today I want to have a real conversation with you about something that is everywhere right now that affects almost everyone listening to this, and that almost nobody, and I mean nobody, is talking about honestly. We're talking about AI. The good, the

Michael Routhier
Apr 227 min read


AI Claims It Has Taste Now. Here's Why That's Telling.
Decades of failure, refinement, and devotion; all held in one hand. No algorithm has ever known what this feels like. That's the whole argument. Last week, one of the most powerful AI companies in the world made an announcement that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI model, released their newest version and claimed it had developed something called taste . Not intelligence. Not speed. Not accuracy. Taste. The ability to loo

Michael Routhier
Apr 206 min read
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