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Meta Shuts 3 VR Studios and Lays Off Hundreds of Devs as It Pivots From Virtual Reality and the Metaverse to AI

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...

Jan 14IGNTechnologyImpact

OpenAI says its data centers will pay for own energy and limit water usage

OpenAI says it will minimize water use and pay for energy infrastructure upgrades needed to power its data centers. "We're being good neighbors," the company said , directly addressing the growing opp...

5dThe VergeTechnologyImpact

11 dead, over 60 missing after Pakistan shopping centre fire smoulders for 24 hours

Firefighters in Karachi began searching on ‌Monday for more than 60 missing people after a massive fire destroyed a shopping centre in Pakistan’s most populous city, while the death toll from the disa...

Jan 19South China Morning Postaccidents

More than half of US bracing for huge winter storm

Many US states have issued a state of emergency due to the severe snow and ice storm, which is set to move from Texas across the country to the northeastern cities of New York and Boston....

3dDeutsche Welleaccidents

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Calls for 'Different and Better DAOs'

Buterin argued that DAOs are currently “inefficient” and “vulnerable to capture,” calling for solutions based on ZK-proofs....

Jan 19DecryptTechnologyImpact

America's new sink-or-swim era is here

Tyler Le/BI A few years ago, HR practitioner T. Tara Turk-Haynes hired yoga instructors and meditation gurus to help employees handle burnout at the media company where she worked. She's not doing any...

Jan 19Business InsidereconomicsImpact

Oprah has endured as a weight-loss icon. Not even GLP-1s can change that.

Oprah Winfrey has massively influenced wellness and diet culture for decades, now taking the spotlight to share her experience with GLP-1s. Don Arnold/Getty Images Oprah Winfrey has long been an influ...

Jan 16Business InsiderHealthImpact

The US military's drone-defense confusion is leaving its bases vulnerable, Pentagon watchdog finds

A US Army solider trains with a counter-UAS weapon known as a "Drone Buster," at Fort Irwin, California., Oct. 31, 2024. Sgt. Quincy Adams/US Army A new watchdog report says unclear counter-dr...

1dBusiness InsiderPoliticsImpact

How Semafor turned Washington into a profit center

Semafor CEO Justin Smith says his company hosted close to 100 events in 2025. His ambition is to build a Washington, DC-based event that's supposed to rivals the annual Davos gathering in Switzerland....

Jan 16Business InsiderPoliticsImpact

America’s barbarian turn

No ideological code can fully capture Trump’s actions...

6dFinancial TimesPoliticsImpact

How to de-risk from America

There is no precedent of a dominant power abandoning its primacy, as Trump is doing...

Jan 13Financial TimesPolitics

Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

Article URL: https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719222 Points: 19 # Comments: 1...

4dHacker NewscultureImpact

Why the Tech World Thinks the American Dream Is Dying

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-the-tech-world-thinks-the-american-dream-is-dying-daf793dc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668394 Points: 5 # Comments: 3...

Jan 18Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact

ACA health insurance enrollment dropped by 1.4 million. See which states had the biggest swings.

Millions are at risk of losing health insurance without Affordable Care Act subsidies. The Washington Post/The Washington Post via Getty Images 1.4 million fewer Americans enrolled in ACA marketplace ...

Jan 17Business InsiderHealthImpact

RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid could be a disaster for the environment — if Americans actually follow it

The Trump administration announced last week that it wants Americans to consume more protein, churning out a colorful illustration of an inverted food pyramid that prominently features a big, red stea...

Jan 13The VergePoliticsImpact

Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems

Article URL: https://www.diljitpr.net/blog-post-postgresql-dlq Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46755115 Points: 10 # Comments: 0...

1dHacker NewsTechnologyImpact

US wants extra Winter Olympics spot for skeleton star Katie Uhlaender

IOC President Kirsty Coventry has been asked to intervene after Katie Uhlaender was the victim of alleged competition manipulation, causing her to miss out on February's Winter Olympics....

2dDeutsche WelleSports

Project 2025 director Paul Dans: ‘We are in a full-on scrimmage for the future of America First’

The Maga activist on rifts within the right, his primary race against Trump confidant Lindsey Graham — and the president’s mistake over the Epstein files...

3dFinancial TimesPoliticsImpact

40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households

Article URL: https://www.apolloacademy.com/40-million-americans-live-alone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46718299 Points: 8 # Comments: 6...

4dHacker NewssocietyImpact

Apple Creator Studio

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/introducing-apple-creator-studio-an-inspiring-collection-of-creative-apps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46601157 Points: 55 # ...

Jan 13Hacker NewsTechnologyImpact
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