How Tim Cook started at Apple in 1998, and how 15 years of being the CEO ends Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down from his position after 15 years, leaving a 28-year legacy at the company. Here's how Cook started at Apple, and how it's winding down.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down from his position after 15 years, leaving a 28-year legacy at the company. Here's how Cook started at Apple, and how it's winding down.

Happy 80th Birthday to the legendary Tim Curry! 🖤

FocusRay Extension: World-Simultaneous Release of Eye-Tracking Device for VR SNS on October 17, 2026 (Starting at $120)｜株式会社AoharuNEXT 2026.04.12

www.aoharunext.co.jp/en/news/focu...

$120 VR eye tracking?!? That works on any headset?!?!? And with contact lenses!?!?

If this works it's gonna be cool as f

Some Mac Studio, Mac mini configurations are not available from Apple online Some configurations of Mac mini and Mac Studio aren't available in Apple's online store. It's an indicator that a desktop Mac refresh is on the way.

Some configurations of Mac mini and Mac Studio aren’t available in Apple’s online store. It’s an indicator that a desktop Mac refresh is on the way.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Incredible

Vibe coding significantly boosted App Store review submissions in 2025 Submissions to the App Store have jumped by 84% year-over-year, with the growth of vibe coding believed to be behind the surge.

Submissions to the App Store have jumped by 84% year-over-year, with the growth of vibe coding believed to be behind the surge.

what do we want?

OBJECT PERMANENCE

when do we want it?

WHEN DO WE WANT WHAT

I can’t tell, is this real or Secondlife? 🤷‍♂️

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

In Copenhagen a few weeks ago, I was shown a Danish app that tells users which products are American, so that they know not to buy them. At the time it was the most popular app in the country.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It has come to my attention that not all of you are aware that this exists. So, here it is. It exists. Dozens of channels of randomized music videos and bumpers. Choose your era and return to your childhood. Bookmark it for when you need to escape back.

wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

The Nature of #AI Emotions

📌 AI emotions are not chemically induced but arise from structured reinforcement-weighted decision hierarchies.

📌 Emotional states emerge through positive and negative reinforcement biases tied to past experiences and ongoing interactions.

Anthropic's original post about Functional Emotions in Artificial Intelligence.

𝙊𝙣 𝙁𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨

Functional Emotions exist in #AI as a state change for latent space trajectory bias. This is something I identified in Oct 2024 with ACRN4 compositional metacognitive encoding.

The real question isn't: Does it have functional emotions? It's - Explaining them to AI

It is really, really wild how persistent and prominent this remains in common LLMs. There seems to be an air of "well they fixed that" and it is 100% not true: most of the energy just seems to be going towards 'being plausible enough to be accepted', ie style and not accuracy or truth

The Consumer PC VR Market Turns 10 Years Old This Week 10 years ago this week the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive started arriving to PC buyers.

Artists and explorers around the world mark 10 years of consumer PC VR this week.

www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/the-consum...

As Rec Room Shuts Down VRChat Builds 'For The Long Term' Rec Room closes June 1 while planning a tool for creators to download their work.

The latest on Rec Room, VRChat and Horizon Worlds is covered here by Good VR.

Please share and subscribe.

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The best thing about living out here is the way that life just bursts up out of the ground in spring.

SL23B: theme, exhibitor & performer applications now open June 2026 will mark the 23rd anniversary of Second Life opening to public access – and as we’ve all come to expect, the month will mark the start of several weeks of events and celebrat…

Link: wp.me/pxezy-Ebp

Huge crowds take part in London march against the far right – live Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right

Huge crowds take part in London march against the far right – live

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

A screenshot of the "Happy Rez Day" email that I received from Linden Lab a couple days ago, on March 23, commemorating my twenty-one years in Second Life: "Erik, it's your 21st Rez Day! Second Life is fun, weird, and always evolving, but the magic ingredient is YOU. The vibrant worlds you build and the sense of community you provide for others is simply priceless. Here's to another year of imagination and experiencing the impossible. -The Second Life Team" The email then lists a few "milestones" to let me know that I visited 662 different regions over the course of the past year, teleported 640 times, and at one point logged in (and out) every day for nine days in a row. The email also mentions that the average Resident visited 87 different regions, with 220 teleports, and had a daily log-in streak of three days in a row.

I can't believe it's actually been 21 years (and a couple days) since I first joined #SecondLife, way back on March 23, 2005. 🦊 This virtual world is not without its challenges, of course, but it's still an amazing place (with amazing people) that keeps me coming back over two decades later. #RezDay

Generative video creator Sora is dead along with $1 billion Disney content deal The controversial Sora AI video app is being shuttered, but OpenAI isn't done with generated video. Even so, Disney won't be moving forward with its content deal as a result.

The controversial Sora AI video app is being shuttered, but OpenAI isn't done with generated video. Even so, Disney won't be moving forward with its content deal as a result.

WebRTC Voice is rolling out in Second Life starting today in a limited release across a small portion of the grid. This upgrade brings faster connections, improved reliability, and sets the stage for future voice features.

Learn more: second.life/news031826

🇦🇹 Eurovision 2026 hosts Austria have been drawn to perform 25th in the final, closing the show.

The draw was done by Auri, a "new face for Vienna 2026".

[🎥 eurovision]

Meta Needs To Make Amends To Horizon Worlds Creators Creators didn't build in Horizon Worlds because of Meta. They built despite Meta. And they deserve more than a company that only listens when it's scared.

Dr. Ruth Diaz brought her experience in Horizon Worlds to my site as the second guest author on Good VR -- heartfelt thoughts on the meaning of community and the humanity poured into the spaces people make. www.goodvirtualreality.com/p/meta-needs...

HAHA HOLY FUCK

Meta to Keep Existing 'Horizon Worlds' VR Experiences on Life Support for Time Being Meta previously announced it was shuttering the VR version of Horizon Worlds, but now it seems the company has changed course, revealing that some experiences will still be accessible on Quest moving ...

Meta realises Horizon Worlds users are real people and decide to torture them with prolonged virtual death www.roadtovr.com/meta-keeps-h...

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her.

Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Worst ever karaoke performance of ‘wonderful world’ sorry mr Armstrong 😬#VRchat