Last month, Instagram began rolling out a new set of controls that allowed users to personalize the topics recommended to them by the Reels algorithm. Now, Meta is making that feature available to all English users of the app globally, along with the ability to highlight their top topics for the coming year.

The feature begins with a selection of topics Meta’s AI thinks you’re interested in based on your recent activity, and has controls to remove them or add new categories. There’s also a separate field for identifying what you want to see less of, and a new ”build your 2026 algorithm” that allows you to highlight three topics in particular.

Several of Meta’s VR studios have been affected by the company’s metaverse-focused layoffs. The company has shuttered three of its VR studios, including Armature, Sanzaru and Twisted Pixel. VR fitness app Supernatural will no longer be updated with fresh content.

Employees at Twisted Pixel, which released Marvel’s Deadpool VR in November, and Sanzaru, known for Asgard’s Wrath, posted on social media about the closures. Bloomberg reported that Armature, which brought Resident Evil 4 to Quest back in 2021 has also closed and that the popular VR fitness app Supernatural will no longer get updates.

Jim Rockford may be going back onto the streets of Los Angeles.

NBC has ordered a pilot for an update on The Rockford Files, the beloved private eye series that starred James Garner. The project comes from Universal Television, which produced the original 1974-80 series, and writer Mike Daniels (NBC’s The Village, Sons of Anarchy).

Also Tuesday, NBC ordered a pilot for Protection, a drama centered on a law enforcement family targeted by an assassin. Also from Universal TV, the pilot is written by Josh Safran (Gossip Girl, Quantico) and counts Today fourth hour co-host Jenna Bush Hager among its executive producers.

The Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional), in close cooperation with the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt) and with the support of Europol, has conducted an operation against the international criminal organisation ‘Black Axe’. The action resulted in 34 arrests and significant disruptions to the group’s activities. Black Axe is a highly structured, hierarchical group with its origins in Nigeria and a global presence in dozens of countries. The core group of arrested suspects consists of 10 individuals of Nigerian nationality.

Apple has released a new teaser for the second season of ”Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,” confirming the sci-fi drama will return globally on Friday, February 27, 2026. The preview offers a first look at ”Titan X,” a new bioluminescent creature that emerges from the ocean to join Godzilla and Kong in the expanding Monsterverse.