September 4, 2025 • 8 mins
Rich DeMuro joined Mendte in the Morning to talk about the latest changes to Instagram, as well as the rumors around a Google passwords breach.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now it's time for rich DeMuro on rich on Tech.
He's heard Sunday nights from eight to eleven pm on woor.
Riches with us every Thursday at this time. By the way,
you can also follow him at rich on Tech. That's
at rich on Tech on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
How you doing, Rich, I am doing fantastic. Thanks for asking.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hey, listen, one of the stories you have today is
Instagram on iPad. As you know, I'm a big Apple guy.
I guess I must not use Instagram that much because
I didn't even know it wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, a lot of people have gotten around this by
going to the website or installing the iPhone app, which
may not, you know, format properly on the large screen.
But yes, fifteen years after launching Instagram on the iPhone,
they finally launched a dedicated iPad app, which a lot
of people have been talking about. But here's the biggest difference.
(00:55):
The app opens directly to the real feed instead of
your photos feed, which is interesting because they're probably trying
to compete with TikTok. Everyone's watching those short videos and
that's what it's going to look like.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So you recommend this if you're a big Instagram user.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I mean, I think you know, it just depends if
you're surfing all day long. But to me, I think
less is more with all this social media, So keep
it on your phone if you already have it on there,
and I don't know. To me, I'm just going to
leave it on there.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So we all use Amazon Prime. I think we've talked
about this earlier on the show, and there is a
change in the shipping.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Is a good or bad, Well, it depends.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I don't like like the iPad app. I don't think
a lot of people knew about this program, but certainly
my family members were on my account for free. Amazon
in the past allowed you to share your Prime membership
with people that didn't live with you, so you can
literally just invite them to your account. They could create
their own account and enjoy free Prime shipping by logging
(01:57):
in with their own credentials. Now Amazon's saying, uh, We're not.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Doing this anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You cannot share Prime with people that don't live with
you inside your household. Now they keep using that name household,
which is a little confusing because you're like, well, wait
a second, what if I have teens off at college,
or what if someone only lives in my house six months.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Out of the year or whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You know, there's a lot of situations these days.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So you can still.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Share with something called Amazon Family, but they've kind of
cracked down on the rules. So it's they've tightened the rules.
It's sharing with one adult that lives in your household
and up to four kids teenagers. They want to get
their own account, which they do have a discounted sort
of Amazon College account for them.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So this next story you have titled as Google Google
breach rumors, So is this not true?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
No, And this frustrates me so much. On my radio show,
I really try to give people the actual news that
they need to know in the tech world. The problem
is I'm up against a lot of headlines out there,
a lot of websites that are just trying to get clicks.
And so one of those examples is this Gmail breach.
So there was a small problem with Gmail and Salesforce.
(03:10):
There was a database breach. If you had Salesforce connected
to your Gmail, mostly corporate people, you know, salespeople types,
there was an issue.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
But all these websites took.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That and blew it up to say Google is telling
all two point five billion Gmail users to change your passwords,
which I knew not to be true. There's no way
that two point five billion Gmail accounts were hacked all
at the same time, and so it took a couple
of days, but Google finally came out and said absolutely not.
This report is completely fake. Yes, there was a small
(03:40):
database breach with Salesforce. Those people have been notified.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
That's been locked down.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But if you have a regular Gmail account, you do
not need to change your password. But they did use
it as sort of a teaching opportunity to say, look,
you know, make sure your password is strong, make sure
that you update it regularly, make sure you have two
step verification, and if you want, you can try new
thing called a pass key, which I.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Don't even know if we have enough time in the
world to explain what that is.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, don't worry about it. But this is really important
information because even I had heard about the Google breach,
which turns out it's not true because it was on
social media and people were all talking about it on
social media. So thanks for that information to tell us
it's not true. That's that's a little bit scary that
something like that can spread so quickly, But I guess
(04:24):
I shouldn't be. I shouldn't be stunned by that, considering
what else is out there on social media. You know what,
I love this next story. You know, I'm a big
iPhone guy, and listen, I take pictures on my iPhone
all of the time. It took me a while to
come around to that, but I realized the pictures sometimes
are better on an iPhone. However, I have thousands of
(04:47):
pictures stored on my iPhone and never have the opportunity
to go through them all. But you found an app
for that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I found an app for that. It is excellent. It
is called Cleaner. And before you run to the app
store and just download the first app that says clever Cleaner,
there are a lot of apps that say this, I'm
only recommending the single app that has no ads, no
in app purchases. This is completely free and from a
company I trust. So my recommendation is go to my
(05:18):
website rich on tech dot tv get the actual link
to this app, because there are many imitations out there.
But what I love about this app is that you
install it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
On your phone.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
It scans your photo library locally so nothing leaves your device,
and then it sorts your files into categories, so we're
talking similar pictures, heavies they call them, which are your
biggest video files which always gobble up a lot of space. Screenshots,
and then you can help clean up your phone by
swiping through these similar photos and picking only the ones
(05:50):
you want, getting rid of a couple of those large
video files. And the app can help you do it,
or you can do it manually. So my advice goes
straight to the heavies. These are your biggest video files
that will free up storage not only on your phone,
but if you're paying for iCloud storage, it'll save you
money there too.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I think this app is just incredible.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
If you're on Android, there's an app called files by Google,
which also lets you find those large files.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
How much storage does do these pictures take on my
iPhone or in anybody else's iPhone?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You know, I don't even think it matters until you're
running up against your storage and all of a sudden
you're getting those messages that say, hey, we can no
longer store anything. So look on my phone. I've got
a ton of storage. I'm also using up a ton
of storage as long as I'm not at the limit.
I'm fine with it or at my limit of the
iCloud storage. So I think it depends on the individual.
(06:43):
But in general, if you have some of these really
large files, like these video files, they can be consuming
gigabytes on your phone.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And that's another thing I love about this app. It'll
tell you how many gigabytes these videos are taking up.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
So, for instance, my top video is twenty minutes, it's
taking up seven zero point twenty nine gigabytes of storage.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You know, Rich, There's been a lot of scary stories
about teenagers and AI. There's one kid that committed suicide
because they claim AI told him to. So what can
parents do well?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Right now, I think parents have to be a parent
and you have to talk to your kids about this stuff.
You have to understand the warning signs, see how much
they're using it, talk to them about this. This is
not a human being, this is not a real person.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
This is AI. It's a computer program. But open AI.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Because it seems like in response to that lawsuit from
those parents are rolling out new safeguards, which include if
you say something that might need some intervention, they will
get you to help, emergency services or a trusted contact,
And especially with teenagers. Parents specifically can now enable parental
(07:53):
controls that let you link up your account to THEIRS,
so you can set some rules and get notifications if
this is them to text signs of distress. So open
AI says they're working with like two hundred and fifty
doctors on this. And again you talked about the lawsuit.
This is all territory that we have not traversed yet. Right,
this is all brand new and open AI is learning.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Just as we are.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
We hope that this stuff doesn't happen, but the reality
is none of us know the implications of AI just yet.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Exactly Yeah, you're exactly right. Richarmiro rich on Tech is
heard Sunday nights from eight to eleven pm on WR
Riches with Us every Thursday at nine thirty five. Make
sure you sign up for his newsletter at Richontech dot tv.
Now it's time for rich DeMuro on rich on Tech.
He's heard Sunday nights from eight to eleven pm on woor.
Riches with us every Thursday at this time. By the way,
you can also follow him at rich on Tech. That's
at rich on Tech on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
How you doing, Rich, I am doing fantastic. Thanks for asking.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hey, listen, one of the stories you have today is
Instagram on iPad. As you know, I'm a big Apple guy.
I guess I must not use Instagram that much because
I didn't even know it wasn't there.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, a lot of people have gotten around this by
going to the website or installing the iPhone app, which
may not, you know, format properly on the large screen.
But yes, fifteen years after launching Instagram on the iPhone,
they finally launched a dedicated iPad app, which a lot
of people have been talking about. But here's the biggest difference.
(00:55):
The app opens directly to the real feed instead of
your photos feed, which is interesting because they're probably trying
to compete with TikTok. Everyone's watching those short videos and
that's what it's going to look like.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So you recommend this if you're a big Instagram user.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I mean, I think you know, it just depends if
you're surfing all day long. But to me, I think
less is more with all this social media, So keep
it on your phone if you already have it on there,
and I don't know. To me, I'm just going to
leave it on there.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So we all use Amazon Prime. I think we've talked
about this earlier on the show, and there is a
change in the shipping.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Is a good or bad, Well, it depends.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I don't like like the iPad app. I don't think
a lot of people knew about this program, but certainly
my family members were on my account for free. Amazon
in the past allowed you to share your Prime membership
with people that didn't live with you, so you can
literally just invite them to your account. They could create
their own account and enjoy free Prime shipping by logging
(01:57):
in with their own credentials. Now Amazon's saying, uh, We're not.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Doing this anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You cannot share Prime with people that don't live with
you inside your household. Now they keep using that name household,
which is a little confusing because you're like, well, wait
a second, what if I have teens off at college,
or what if someone only lives in my house six months.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Out of the year or whatever.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You know, there's a lot of situations these days.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So you can still.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Share with something called Amazon Family, but they've kind of
cracked down on the rules. So it's they've tightened the rules.
It's sharing with one adult that lives in your household
and up to four kids teenagers. They want to get
their own account, which they do have a discounted sort
of Amazon College account for them.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So this next story you have titled as Google Google
breach rumors, So is this not true?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
No, And this frustrates me so much. On my radio show,
I really try to give people the actual news that
they need to know in the tech world. The problem
is I'm up against a lot of headlines out there,
a lot of websites that are just trying to get clicks.
And so one of those examples is this Gmail breach.
So there was a small problem with Gmail and Salesforce.
(03:10):
There was a database breach. If you had Salesforce connected
to your Gmail, mostly corporate people, you know, salespeople types,
there was an issue.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
But all these websites took.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That and blew it up to say Google is telling
all two point five billion Gmail users to change your passwords,
which I knew not to be true. There's no way
that two point five billion Gmail accounts were hacked all
at the same time, and so it took a couple
of days, but Google finally came out and said absolutely not.
This report is completely fake. Yes, there was a small
(03:40):
database breach with Salesforce. Those people have been notified.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
That's been locked down.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But if you have a regular Gmail account, you do
not need to change your password. But they did use
it as sort of a teaching opportunity to say, look,
you know, make sure your password is strong, make sure
that you update it regularly, make sure you have two
step verification, and if you want, you can try new
thing called a pass key, which I.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Don't even know if we have enough time in the
world to explain what that is.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah, don't worry about it. But this is really important
information because even I had heard about the Google breach,
which turns out it's not true because it was on
social media and people were all talking about it on
social media. So thanks for that information to tell us
it's not true. That's that's a little bit scary that
something like that can spread so quickly, But I guess
(04:24):
I shouldn't be. I shouldn't be stunned by that, considering
what else is out there on social media. You know what,
I love this next story. You know, I'm a big
iPhone guy, and listen, I take pictures on my iPhone
all of the time. It took me a while to
come around to that, but I realized the pictures sometimes
are better on an iPhone. However, I have thousands of
(04:47):
pictures stored on my iPhone and never have the opportunity
to go through them all. But you found an app
for that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I found an app for that. It is excellent. It
is called Cleaner. And before you run to the app
store and just download the first app that says clever Cleaner,
there are a lot of apps that say this, I'm
only recommending the single app that has no ads, no
in app purchases. This is completely free and from a
company I trust. So my recommendation is go to my
(05:18):
website rich on tech dot tv get the actual link
to this app, because there are many imitations out there.
But what I love about this app is that you
install it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
On your phone.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
It scans your photo library locally so nothing leaves your device,
and then it sorts your files into categories, so we're
talking similar pictures, heavies they call them, which are your
biggest video files which always gobble up a lot of space. Screenshots,
and then you can help clean up your phone by
swiping through these similar photos and picking only the ones
(05:50):
you want, getting rid of a couple of those large
video files. And the app can help you do it,
or you can do it manually. So my advice goes
straight to the heavies. These are your biggest video files
that will free up storage not only on your phone,
but if you're paying for iCloud storage, it'll save you
money there too.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I think this app is just incredible.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
If you're on Android, there's an app called files by Google,
which also lets you find those large files.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
How much storage does do these pictures take on my
iPhone or in anybody else's iPhone?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
You know, I don't even think it matters until you're
running up against your storage and all of a sudden
you're getting those messages that say, hey, we can no
longer store anything. So look on my phone. I've got
a ton of storage. I'm also using up a ton
of storage as long as I'm not at the limit.
I'm fine with it or at my limit of the
iCloud storage. So I think it depends on the individual.
(06:43):
But in general, if you have some of these really
large files, like these video files, they can be consuming
gigabytes on your phone.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
And that's another thing I love about this app. It'll
tell you how many gigabytes these videos are taking up.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
So, for instance, my top video is twenty minutes, it's
taking up seven zero point twenty nine gigabytes of storage.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You know, Rich, There's been a lot of scary stories
about teenagers and AI. There's one kid that committed suicide
because they claim AI told him to. So what can
parents do well?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Right now, I think parents have to be a parent
and you have to talk to your kids about this stuff.
You have to understand the warning signs, see how much
they're using it, talk to them about this. This is
not a human being, this is not a real person.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
This is AI. It's a computer program. But open AI.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Because it seems like in response to that lawsuit from
those parents are rolling out new safeguards, which include if
you say something that might need some intervention, they will
get you to help, emergency services or a trusted contact,
And especially with teenagers. Parents specifically can now enable parental
(07:53):
controls that let you link up your account to THEIRS,
so you can set some rules and get notifications if
this is them to text signs of distress. So open
AI says they're working with like two hundred and fifty
doctors on this. And again you talked about the lawsuit.
This is all territory that we have not traversed yet. Right,
this is all brand new and open AI is learning.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Just as we are.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
We hope that this stuff doesn't happen, but the reality
is none of us know the implications of AI just yet.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Exactly Yeah, you're exactly right. Richarmiro rich on Tech is
heard Sunday nights from eight to eleven pm on WR
Riches with Us every Thursday at nine thirty five. Make
sure you sign up for his newsletter at Richontech dot tv.
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