Of all the gambles Mark Zuckerberg has taken in his career, the metaverse was the grandest — and the one that failed most visibly. Meta is shutting down Horizon Worlds on VR, removing it from the Quest store in March and terminating VR access on June 15. After close to $80 billion in losses, the gamble has come up empty, and Zuckerberg is quietly...
One of Instagram's most significant privacy features is being quietly retired. Meta has announced that end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages will be discontinued from May 8, 2026. Users who want encrypted messaging will need to switch to WhatsApp, Meta's other platform.
The feature had a complicated history on Instagram. Mark Zuckerberg first promised end-to-end encryption across Meta platforms back in 2019, but it took...
