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I used to make Word documents. Now I make apps even for the silliest things

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In Xataka, our colleagues were organizing some procedures. Some that, until now, we were doing in the cheesiest way possible: through bullets in Slack. Until my colleague, Javier Pastor, decided to create an application with Claude Code and glm-47. It reminded me a lot of my case. For a couple of months now, with Claude fever, I have gone from creating Word documents, Excel lists or even notes, to creating applications for everything. The era of vibe coding. We are facing a completely different era. one in which we don’t need to know about programming to create simple solutions that make our lives easier. This type of apps, Claude’s artifacts or websites have nothing to do with what a developer could do manually, but they are a fantastic solution for executing tasks that, until just a few months ago, were quite tedious. You don’t even need a complex prompt: just tell us what you want in natural language, and the apps will take care of it. Claude and Antigravity. In my particular case, I have been obsessed with what Claude calls artifacts for a few weeks now. It is editable and executable content locally (although it can also be uploaded to the web), super simple interfaces that are created in just over five minutes. Recently, I was asked to correct a 21-item clinical test with reverse scores where it was especially relevant to know the score on each item, and to scale according to the score in which state the interviewee was. It seemed completely anachronistic to me to do this process by hand, so I got to work. Be clear about where there is failure and where there is not.. I still don’t trust AI because of its ability to hallucinationbut there are aspects where it is practically impossible for it to fail. One of them is simple mathematical calculations: test corrections, random numerical generation apps, automated records… The possibilities for creating tools in which it is practically impossible for AI to fail are countless. This is just a simple example of a questionnaire with automated correction and interpretation (there are dozens of websites trying to achieve the same thing with much less elaborate interfaces). But I have used it to create my own social media analysis systems, automated calendar management with Google Drive and Sheets, etc. There is no turning back. The results of apps made using vibe coding are fascinating. From Open Source platforms to set up a homemade Google Photos to obsessions such as being informed about the harshest news through interactive websites vibecodeadas. They are relatively easy to create (they usually take no more than 20 minutes), open the door to a world of possibilities and, for the most nerd (and denied in programming, as a server), they are the new toy in the age of AI. In Xataka | Vibe coding wants to help Open Source. But developers don’t want AI botches

The trial against Meta increasingly resembles that of tobacco. Zuckerberg has sworn things that his internal documents contradict

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Mark Zuckerberg has been testifying under oath in Los Angeles in what is already considered the largest trial in history against a social network. And each session leaves uncomfortable headlines for Meta. What is happening. A Los Angeles court judges whether Instagram is a platform designed to hook minors. The plaintiff, a 20-year-old woman identified as KGM, alleges that she became addicted to Instagram when she was nine years old and that it ruined her mental health during her adolescence. It is not the only case, since behind this trial there are more than 1,600 plaintiffshundreds of families and more than 250 school districts with similar complaints against Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snap. These last two reached a financial agreement before the trial began. Meta and Google are still in. Tobacco. The parallel that is most repeated in the American media is that of the tobacco companies in the nineties, since the companies that knew about the damage caused by their products hid it and paid for the consequences decades later in court. Here the accusation holds that Meta designed features like the infinite scroll‘likes’, push notifications… All with the deliberate objective of maximizing the time that users spent in the app, including minors. The company’s internal documents are being the heaviest ammunition in the trial. What those documents say. During cross-examination, the plaintiff’s attorney, Mark Lanier, was presenting emails and internal messages from Meta before the jury. One of the most striking: a researcher from the company itself wrote in an email that “Instagram is a drug… we are basically traffickers,” according to shared the Financial Times. Another document, from 2018, estimated that in 2015 there were four million users under the age of 13 on Instagram, which was equivalent to approximately 30% of all American children between 10 and 12 years old. Zuckerberg had declared before Congress that minors under that age could not use the platform. Where the testimony squeaks. Zuckerberg insisted before the jury that Meta never aimed to maximize the time users spent in the app, that the company focuses on long-term “value” and “utility.” The problem is that the accusation brought to the table emails of his from between 2013 and 2022 in which this increase in screen time appears explicitly as an internal goal. He also presented documents from Adam Mosseri, director of Instagram, with specific objectives: reaching 40 minutes of daily use in 2023 and 46 minutes in 2026. Zuckerberg responded that these data are “milestones” to measure results, not objectives in themselves. lyou filters. One of the most tense moments of the statement came with questions about Instagram filters, you know, the ones that users can apply to their face through the camera. In 2019, Meta temporarily suspended them to study its impact. 18 experts consulted by the company itself concluded that they caused well-being problems, especially among adolescents, with effects linked to body dysmorphia. Zuckerberg decided to lift the restriction as well. At the trial he explained that he preferred “to err on the side of giving people the opportunity to express themselves” and that the restrictions seemed “paternalistic” to him. The prosecution also showed the jury an email from Margaret Stewart, then vice president of product design at Meta, warning that, although he would comply with Zuckerberg’s decision, he did not believe it was “the right decision given the risks.” Between the lines. What makes this trial especially delicate for Meta is not only what Zuckerberg says now, but the distance between that story and what has been revealed over time through internal documentation and emails. The accusation opts for a strategy in order to show that the company knew about it, that it discussed it internally and that it still prioritized the growth of its platform. What is at stake? Goal. An unfavorable ruling in Los Angeles would not only be an economic blow, as it would set a precedent for thousands of similar lawsuits that are waiting in courts across the country (and around the globe, perhaps). For now, there are similar cases planned for this summer in Northern California, focused on the impact on schools, and another trial already underway in New Mexico where the state attorney general accuses Meta of failing to protect minors from sexual predators on its platforms. “For the first time, Meta’s CEO will have to sit before a jury, under oath, and explain why the company launched a product that its own safety teams warned was addictive and harmful to children,” counted Matt Bergman, attorney representing hundreds of plaintiffs. And now what. The trial is expected to last until the end of March, according to they count from Bloomberg. Meta maintains its defense on two fronts: that science does not prove that social networks are addictive and that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act exempts them from responsibility for the content that users publish. The prosecution, however, insists that the case is not about content, but about deliberate decisions about how the application is built. Cover image | Solen Feyissa and Wikimedia Commons In Xataka | TikTok’s infinite scroll has just entered the EU’s crosshairs: Brussels marks it as “addictive design” and demands changes

From now on your Word documents are automatically saved to OneDrive. It’s a disturbing idea

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Until now, when we saved a file that we worked with in Microsoft Word We used the hard drive or SSD of our computers. However, that just changed, and Microsoft has decided that your files are stored by default in your cloud. It is an idea that has its advantages, but also important drawbacks. what has happened. At an event dedicated to OneDrive and Copilot this week, Microsoft has announced new features for your cloud storage service. In the version of Word for Windows, new documents will be saved directly to OneDrive and automatic saving of those documents will be activated automatically. Good on the one hand. At Microsoft they explained that they knew “how frustrating it can be to search for important files on different devices and locations.” That has made them decide that instead of saving them directly to your device, are saved in the cloudwhere they are always available and from any other computer and place. It’s a good idea to have those documents ready to be accessed from other computers, but it has several major drawbacks. Also activating automatic auto-save will prevent us from losing work. Privacy and security. For starters, uploading documents to the cloud by default can raise privacy and security concerns. What happens if the document contains confidential or sensitive information? Would we really want to upload that document to the cloud? If someone gets our OneDrive credentials—and that happensespecially when we reuse passwords— you will be able to access all our documents and, if there is sensitive information in them, collect it. Will they use those files to train their AI models? Microsoft Support Managers they have made it clear in the past that “our terms of service clearly state that we do not use customer data to train our AI models.” The privacy terms and the website of theMicrosoft Responsible AI” seem to confirm this, although they do point out that they do use the conversations with Copilot—but not the documents themselves—to improve those models. It is not a backup, it is the only copy. Normally we turned to OneDrive and other cloud storage services as ways to have a backup copy of our documents and thus get closer to that philosophy of “Backups 3-2-1“. With this type of feature, the files are stored directly in OneDrive, and although we have a local folder synchronized with the OneDrive files on our computer, Microsoft reverses the process here: before we saved those files in another folder and then we also uploaded them to OneDrive if we wanted. Now that copy of OneDrive is the only one. You can go back to business as usual. Microsoft will set this option by default, but users can deactivate it so that the office application behaves in a traditional way and offers the saving of files on our PC or laptop. It is likely, however, that many users will not even do it if they do not know about this change. They will simply assume it, something that can end up causing confusion. What if I don’t have a connection? It is true that it is normal that at this point we work on documents when we have the computer connected to the internet, but that cannot be the case. If that happens, we will not be able to save to OneDrive or have the autosave option working with those cloud operations. What will happen then? It is likely that in this scenario Microsoft Word will save files temporarily in the computer’s storage system, but that detail is not clarified. Another way to encourage you to pay for OneDrive. Microsoft is obsessed with getting you to use (and pay for) its services. We already saw how they are blocking the installation of Windows 11 with local accountsand this automatic autosave in OneDrive also aims to boost the use of OneDrive and Microsoft 365, its two great solutions for end users and businesses. Image | Ed Hardie In Xataka | Microsoft embraces the ‘working vibe’: it has launched Excel and Word that are controlled with prompts

How to scan documents with WhatsApp to send them as PDF

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Let’s explain How to scan documents with WhatsApp To be able to send them as a message. It is a function within the messaging application, which allows you to take a picture of a document, and Send it in PDF format choosing what you want to keep from him. The document scan function is available for Android and iOS, although it is a bit hidden. However, once you find it you will see that it is quite complete. We are going to tell you step by step how to use it. Scan documents and send them by WhatsApp The first thing you have to do is enter the chat where you want to send the document. So, click on the File button of the chat. When options are opened, click where it puts Document To tell you what this is what you want to send. A menu will open in which you will be told from where you want to add or select the document to be sent. In this menu, click on the option of Scan document That will appear below. This will open the screen of your mobile, where two things can happen. First, you will see that WhatsApp himself marks the object to be scanned, and when you leave the mobile quiet will take a capture automatically. You also have a button to get them manually. Simply, make a document capture That you want to send. This will show you a capture of the text, and in it you can do several things. For example, you can select the text itself to copy it, but below you have a button Adjust for select what you want to capture inside the photo That you have taken. Come on, if many things go out you can adjust so that only the fragment you want comes out. You also have filters and the option to turn. When you have it to your liking, click on the button Ok. Once you accept the document after editing it, you will go to the preview before sending it as a message. Below you can add a comment, write something next to the attached file in PDF that you are going to send. Here, when you have it click to send. And that’s it. With this you will send the document you have scanned with the camera and whatsapp, and will be sent in PDF format to be read by the other person. In Xataka Basics | Stop of stealing your WhatsApp by video call and ask for bizums to your contacts: what is and how to avoid it

How to safely share your ID and other documents with the Safelayer online tool

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We are going to tell you how to safely share your ID or other sensitive documents with a website that hides the dangerous data to show. Share your DNI safely on the Internet It is something very important, since it contains data with which they can do several things in your name. However, in addition to online scams there may also be some legitimate cases in which your identity document is requested digitally, such as registering in accommodation. In these cases it is important to edit it to hide some data, and we will tell you A tool that helps you do it Very easily, with a website that at no time keeps your data. The tool is called Safelayer, and has been created by Bytelantic. Allows any document to Add a watermark. With this, what you get is to share the data without this document being valid for anything else, since if you try to pass through originals it will be seen that there is a water mark where it is indicated for what it is, and the colors. Protect your ID with Safelayer The first thing you have to do is enter the website saferlayer.com. In it, click on the option of Choose an image That you have up at all. This will open the file explorer of your mobile or computer, and you have to Choose the image of the ID or the digitalized document you want to protect. After uploading the document, you have to specify the use you want to giveindicating who you authorize for it. This is A text that will appear as a water brand next to the digital document that you are going to generate. And that’s it. Just by doing this, your document will appear with a watermark in which the text you have generated in the previous step is included. Now, you will have The option to share or download it on your device to be able to send it or manage it as you want. In Xataka Basics | How to take the DNI on your mobile with this trick while waiting for DNI 4.0

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