The future arrived, looked around at the empty virtual rooms, and left. Meta is shutting down Horizon Worlds on VR — departing the Quest store in March and going fully dark in VR on June 15 — after close to $80 billion in losses. Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse, the project that was supposed to define the next era of human civilization, has become a historical...
From the perspective of law enforcement agencies, Meta's decision to remove end-to-end encryption from Instagram direct messages is long overdue. The change, confirmed for May 8, 2026, comes after years of sustained pressure from police forces and child safety organizations. Meta disclosed the decision through a quiet update to its help documentation.
The FBI, Interpol, the UK's National Crime Agency, and Australia's federal police had...
