Meta is laying off around 10% of staff at its Reality Labs division as part of sweeping cuts set to affect more than 1,000 people. This includes the closure of a number of VR-first studios, such as Tw...
The Wikimedia Foundation said it has inked agreements with Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta to use its content for training LLMs....
Article URL: https://www.afterbabel.com/p/how-metas-lawyers-perfected-the-playbook Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694378 Points: 31 # Comments: 1...
The roughly 1,000 job cuts in Reality Labs come as Meta reallocates resources from the metaverse to AI wearables and mobile products....
Article URL: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/lets-be-honest-generative-ai-isnt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605587 Points: 24 # Comments: 3...
Article URL: https://www.atredis.com/blog/2025/9/30/drawbot-lets-hack-something-cute Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46652914 Points: 5 # Comments: 2...
A long-dormant Satoshi‑era wallet has suddenly moved 909.38 BTC, now worth about $84.6 million, throwing fresh light on the massive upside of early Bitcoin bets....
Crypto majors are red following Trump’s tariff turmoil; BTC -2% at $91,100; ETH -4% at $3,105, SOL -3% at $129; XRP -2% to $1.93. CC (+12%), MYX (+5%) and SYRUP (+4%) led top movers. The NYSE began pr...
Marvel’s Deadpool VR. Meta is laying off about 10 percent of its Reality Labs metaverse division, and the cuts apparently include closing down some of its VR gaming studios. It "appears" Twisted Pixel...
Active AI users got promoted more quickly at Cisco, the company found. David Espejo/Getty Images Cisco said that employees recommended for promotion used AI more often than those who weren't recommend...
Steve Cohen is the owner of the New York Mets. Joe Raedle/Getty Images A new continuation vehicle has acquired stakes in Point72's fintech startups, a press release states. The new fund raised $280 mi...
The Kaoss Pad has seen many different iterations , but the mainline effect unit and sampler hasn't received an update since the launch of the KP3+ in 2013. Korg has finally given it the attention it d...
The GPU market is turning into a mess again. Asus told Hardware Unboxed earlier this week that it was winding down production of its RTX 5070 Ti, but the PC maker is now walking back that claim and bl...
Siri, are you there? It’s me, Gemini. For an AI loser, Apple did an awful lot of winning last year. The mess that was the Apple Intelligence rollout was embarrassing, to be sure, but through it all, t...
Across tech, pressure on workers to perform comes as leaders wait for AI bets to pay off. Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI Big Tech firms like Amazon and Meta are doubling down on worker oversight and p...
Sean Hollister demos the Lego Smart Brick at CES. The Lego Smart Brick won our Best in Show award at CES 2026, and it was no wonder after watching Lego designer Maarten Simons' expert demo there. So I...
Hi Everyone, Digital Carrot is a programmable and pluggable app blocker. It lets you block websites and apps on iOS, Mac and Windows until a set of conditions or goal is met. For example you can block...
I'm Dan, and I built a CLI that lets AI agents design in Figma. What it does: 100 commands to create shapes, text, frames, components, modify styles, export assets. JSX importing that's ~100x faster t...
Hi HN, When working with BGP data, I kept running into the same friction: it’s easy to get raw data, but surprisingly hard to browse networks over time — especially by when they appeared, where they o...
British Airways announced a deal with Starlink in November. Courtesy of British Airways Lufthansa is the latest airline to sign up for Elon Musk's Starlink WiFi. 31 carriers have announced deals for t...