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Your iPhone Is Watching, Even When You Tell It Not To.
Your phone knows exactly where you are. It knows how fast you're going. And it's storing all of it, even when you think you turned it off. Have you ever turned off Location Services on your iPhone; done it deliberately, felt good about it, assumed that was that, and then wondered if it actually worked? It didn't. Not completely. And I don't say that to be an alarmist. I say it because this is the conversation we should have been having years ago, and the tech industry has bee

Michael Routhier
Jul 18 min read


An AI Just Broke Into the NSA, And Nobody's Talking About What That Actually Means.
"It broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours." - Gen. Joshua Rudd, Head of NSA & U.S. Cyber Command I'm not being dramatic. I'm not writing a clickbait headline to get attention. What I'm about to tell you is real, it happened this month, and the fact that most people are already scrolling past it, or worse, arguing on the internet about whether it "counts", tells me everything about where we are right now. We have a problem. And it is bigge

Michael Routhier
Jun 267 min read


75,000 Fake Songs a Day - And Nobody's Stopping It
One hand spent a lifetime developing something real. The other generated 75,000 imitations overnight. Only one of them moved you. A few weeks ago, Deezer, one of the major music streaming platforms, published a report. Buried in it was a number I haven't been able to stop thinking about. 44% of all new music being uploaded to their platform is AI-generated. Not 4%. Not some niche corner of the internet where tech people run experiments. Forty-four percent of all new music on

Michael Routhier
Apr 245 min read
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