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Meta just killed the product it renamed its entire company after. Horizon Worlds VR goes dark June 15. The “metaverse” that Zuckerberg said would reach a billion people and host hundreds of billions of dollars in digital commerce peaked at 200,000 monthly users. For context, a single popular Roblox game gets more traffic than Meta’s entire virtual universe ever did. Reality Labs has now burned through roughly $80 billion in operating losses since 2020. In Q4 2025 alone, the unit lost $6.02 billion while generating $955 million in revenue. That means for every dollar Reality Labs brought in, it spent more than six. Here’s what $80 billion actually bought: legless avatars that became a meme, a Wendy’s metaverse collaboration called the “Wendyverse,” Godzilla tie-ins nobody asked for, and a platform where 91% of user-created worlds were never visited by more than 50 people. The rebrand was October 2021. The layoffs started in 2022. By 2025, Zuckerberg was personally slashing the metaverse budget 30% and recruiting AI talent from OpenAI and Apple. In January 2026, 1,500 Reality Labs employees lost their jobs. In February, Meta announced Horizon Worlds would become mobile-only. Today, they set the execution date. The mobile app that survives is competing against Roblox, Fortnite, and every other social platform that built their user base without $80 billion in subsidies. Meta’s own ad business generates over $200 billion in annual revenue. Reality Labs generates lawsuits, memes, and quarterly losses. Zuckerberg changed his company’s name to Meta in 2021 because the metaverse was the future. In 2026, the future is a mobile app.

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Not knowing how to code giving you an advantage is absolute nonsense. The more you understand, the better your prompts, the better the feedback you give, the better product you ship. What will change is that the intricacies of syntax, compilers, module systems, the finer details of type systems, won’t matter as much to everyone. But you should absolutely understand how the pieces fit together. From syscall to pixels. Learn how data flows, because you’ll be able to secure your systems. Learn about performance, because you’ll be able to push your agent further. Learn about APIs, because they determine how to integrate systems. Learn about how systems fail, because you’ll be able to make reliable programs.

Andrew Tate has been detained in Saudia Arabia for suspicion of Terrorism. He was caught while moving to Dubai. Giving his criminal history, the incel king risks death by beheading in the country.