“This is my home”: At a VR comedy club in Horizon Worlds, users mourn Meta's plans for the platform.
WIRED
• Boone Ashworth
The Comedy Club at the End of the Metaverse
WIRED
• Boone Ashworth
“This is my home”: At a VR comedy club in Horizon Worlds, users mourn Meta's plans for the platform.
WIRED
• Brad Bourque
The JBL Bar 500MK2 boasts Dolby Atmos support and easy setup and streaming.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Christine Quinn, president & CEO of Win, the largest provider of shelter and supportive services for homeless families in New York City, talks about the mayor's seeming turnabout on a campaign promise to expand the CityFHEPS rental assistance program and offers her take on City Hall's approach to addressing homelessness.
Photo: A for-rent sign displayed outside. (Credit: Photos Public Domain/Dipankan001 via Wikimedia Commons)
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404 Media
• Becky Ferreira
Masturbation has long been a scientific “mystery,” but a massive cross-species study shows that increased ejaculation has fertility benefits.
WIRED
• Nena Farrell
New gear for spring cleaning just got cheaper. Don't miss these discounted robot vacuums, stick vacuums, and hand vacs.
Defector
• Billy Haisley
WIRED
• Kat Merck
These Amazon Spring Sale picks actually deserve a spot in your yard.
This is cool: Bridgy Fed now supports long-form blog posts in AT Protocol via the standard.site lexicon. I guess I need to hurry up with my own implementation of this.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
On MLB's opening day, Ken Davidoff, sports journalist and former New York Post baseball columnist, and Harley Rotbart, MD, pediatrician, former Parents Magazine columnist and little league coach, talk about baseball's lessons for success in life beyond the game. Rotbart and Davidoff are co-authors of the new book 101 Lessons from the Dugout: What Baseball and Softball Can Teach Us About the Game of Life (Bloomsbury, 2026).
Photo: Cover art for 101 Lessons from the Dugout. (Credit: Bloomsbury)
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Lab Notes 025: launching v1 of Leaflet Pro, our paid plan for writers, with publication analytics and lots more planned!
WIRED
• Boutayna Chokrane
Ultrahuman is officially back in the U.S. and looking to disrupt the status quo with its most advanced smart ring yet.

If you’re a platform engineering leader managing Kubernetes at scale, a new pressure has entered the room. The business wants
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Lindsay Ellis, Wall Street Journal reporter, talks about the tough job market for new college graduates, and how much AI is responsible for it.
Photo: Graduation hats being tossed in air by business school graduates. (Credit: Artessa via Wikimedia Commons CC 4.0)
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AI and I
• Dan Shipper
404 Media
• Jason Koebler
It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.
404 Media
• Matthew Gault
"The way they have behaved here is profoundly harmful and I would deem it a type of psychological torture from corprotate neglect."
404 Media
• Joseph Cox
A company is listening to Zoom meetings en masse and making AI podcasts; the multi-millionaire who wanted to become a cocaine kingpin; and RIP the metaverse.
WIRED
• Makena Kelly
John Kiriakou went to prison after exposing the CIA's torture program. Now he's going viral as he campaigns to get his name cleared and his pension restored.
WIRED
• Maxwell Zeff
As the ChatGPT-maker eyes an IPO, it's ditching Sora in favor of a unified AI assistant and enterprise coding tools.
Defector
• Barry Petchesky