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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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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


AI and Older Adults: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Truth
Someone has to say it out loud. Might as well be us. I want to talk about something that almost nobody is talking about honestly. Not because the information isn't out there. Because saying it clearly, to people who need to hear it, feels inconvenient for the people with the most to gain from your confusion. So let's fix that. Not the breathless headlines about AI changing everything. Not the doom-and-gloom predictions about robots taking over. Not the corporate press release

Michael Routhier
Apr 168 min read
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