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Atlas Obscura plans to launch Obscura Society, a WebXR-based lounge offering users 3D avatars for voice chats, portals to other VR apps, and more, in early 2026 (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/847182/atlas-obscura-society-3d-virtual-…

How Atlas Obscura plans to embrace the 3D web
The Obscura Society will be a virtual lounge that Atlas Obscura community members can visit to hang out with the help of 3D avatars, have voice chats, and explore places from the site’s massive catalog together.

NASA’s #SPHEREx Observatory Completes First Cosmic Map Like No Other: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-spherex-observatory-completes-first-cosmic-map-like-no-other/ - the space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors.

Meta Chief Revenue Officer John Hegeman is leaving, after 17 years at Meta; Clara Shih, who joined in November 2024 to lead its Business AI unit, is exiting (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

😂 ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally! 😂
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/ice-arrests-chicago-suburb-police-officer-hanover-park

Dow Jones hires ex-Bloomberg Media CEO M. Scott Havens as its first chief growth officer, overseeing subscription growth and other consumer revenue streams (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/dow-jones-hires-scott-havens-chief-growth-officer/

Dow Jones Hires M. Scott Havens As First Chief Growth Officer
The former Bloomberg Media CEO will oversee subscription growth across The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and MarketWatch

Your console.log is useless: A Guide to Production-Grade #Observability in #Nodejs

ICE arrests suburban Chicago cop, accusing him of being an unlawful immigrant from Montenegro
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/ice-arrests-chicago-suburb-police-officer-hanover-park

Im Offshore-Windpark #BalticPower wurden erstmals in #Polen gefertigte #Windgondeln installiert.
Die 15-MW-Turbinen stammen aus dem neuen

Erste Offshore-Windgondeln wurden im Offshore-Windpark Baltic Power installiert | Windkraft-Journal
Die ersten in Polen gefertigten Offshore-Windgondeln wurden im Offshore-Windpark Baltic Power installiert. (WK-intern) - Das Projekt Baltic Power – ein Joint Venture der ORLEN Group und Northland Power – bestätigte die erfolgreiche Installation der ersten drei 15-MW-Turbinen. Die Gondeln stammen aus dem Vestas-Werk in Stettin. Die Installation dieser Gondeln markiert einen Meilenstein für die Entwicklung

Nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was walking to a store in 1981
when two members of the United Klans of America abducted the Black youth,
beat him, cut his throat and hung his body from a tree on a residential street in Mobile, Alabama.
Angry that an interracial jury had failed to convict a Black man for killing a white police officer in Birmingham,
the Klansmen selected Donald at random
and lynched him to threaten the Black community.
On the same evening…

Donald v. United Klans of America
Michael Donald Lynching Case Shutting down the notorious United Klans Nineteen-year-old Michael Donald was walking to a store in 1981 when two members of the United Klans of America abducted the Black youth, beat him, cut his throat and hung his body from a tree on a residential street in Mobile, Alabama. Angry that an interracial jury had failed to convict a Black man for killing a white police officer in Birmingham, the Klansmen selected Donald at random and lynched him to threaten the B…

OpenAI's chief communications officer Hannah Wong will leave in January; Wong joined in 2021 and led PR during Sam Altman's brief ouster and return in 2023 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-communications-officer-hannah-…

OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company
Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her “next chapter.” The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo.