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Meta’s aggressive push into artificial intelligence is facing growing resistance from an unexpected group: its own employees. According to a recent report from WIRED, frustration inside Meta has reached a boiling point following a series of AI-related restructuring efforts, layoffs, and workplace policies. The tensions became public this week when an employee interrupted a company-wide livestream with an expletive-filled rant directed at Meta’s AI leadership, shocking thousands of colleagues watching the presentation. The incident may sound like an isolated outburst, but employees say it reflects a much broader problem inside the company. Over the past several months, Meta has reorganized…
When shopping for a new laptop, most buyers compare specifications like performance, battery life, display quality, and price. But a new AI-powered initiative could soon add another metric to that list: carbon footprint. Researchers are developing AI agents capable of calculating and displaying the environmental impact of consumer electronics in real time, potentially giving shoppers instant access to sustainability information before making a purchase. The effort aims to bring the kind of emissions transparency already available in services like flight booking platforms to the world of consumer technology. Today, consumers can easily compare the carbon emissions of different flights through…
Facebook and Messenger users were briefly knocked offline Friday morning, with many saying they had been logged out and couldn’t get back in. The Facebook and Messenger outage sent users to X, Reddit, and other platforms to check whether the problem was widespread or tied to their own accounts. Downdetector showed the first visible surge in Facebook complaints around 9:52 a.m. ET. Meta Vice President of Communications Andy Stone posted on X shortly after, saying some people were having trouble getting into Meta services and that it was working on a fix. We’re aware people are currently having trouble accessing…
Anthropic’s troubles with the US government do not seem to be easing. The company has now been ordered to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, including foreign national Anthropic employees working inside the United States. Anthropic said it received the directive on June 12 and is disabling the two models for all customers to comply. Other Anthropic models are not affected. The government has not publicly explained the full national security concern, but Anthropic says it understands the order is linked to a reported method for bypassing, or jailbreaking, Fable 5’s safeguards. A fresh…
Every video editor has a list of tasks they’d happily outsource to someone else. Exporting isn’t one of them anymore because modern laptops are already plenty fast. The real-time sinks are the boring bits: manually masking subjects, finding scene cuts in long recordings, rotoscoping frame by frame, or wrestling with tedious edits that require more patience than creativity. That’s exactly why NVIDIA’s RTX Spark demo at Computex 2026 caught me by surprise. I walked into the booth expecting another presentation full of AI buzzwords and benchmark charts. Instead, I walked out thinking that for the first time in years, hardware…
This weekend’s movie picks on Prime Video include a low-budget sci-fi that turns a dinner party into an existential nightmare, a Swedish dramedy that will have you crying before you realise what hit you, and one of Adam Driver’s quietly devastating performances in a film about a man who writes poems and drives a bus for a living. We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best free movies, and the best movies on Amazon Prime Video. Coherence (2013) Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller IMDB rating: 7.2/10…
Netflix has a habit of burying its best movies under an avalanche of trending content. This weekend, we are skipping the algorithm and going straight for three hidden gems that genuinely deserve your time. We have a road trip comedy that sneaks up on you emotionally, a Taiwanese family saga that will wreck you when the facade finally gives way, and a wartime horror movie that uses its setting to say something much bigger than the scares. We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, the best free movies, and the best…
Samsung is already a few weeks into testing One UI 9 with Galaxy S26 beta users, and a new feature spotted in the latest build feels long overdue. It is the network speed indicator, a simple status bar tool so common on other Android phones that it is surprising Galaxy phones have gone this long without it. You can find this feature even on budget Android phones from brands like OnePlus, Oppo, and Xiaomi. It shows real-time upload and download activity in the status bar while the phone is connected to Wi-Fi or mobile data, giving users a quick way…
Few games are more deserving of a remake than the original Gothic. Over 25 years ago, this RPG from a small German team redefined the genre’s possibilities with its scope, scale, and unparalleled freedom. Although most people here in the West weren’t even aware of it, Gothic influenced a generation of European developers; its DNA can be seen in everything from The Witcher to Stalker and beyond. Now Alkimia Interactive has taken on the task of rebuilding Gothic for a new generation, and perhaps more importantly, revitalizing it for old fans. The result is a remake that does both, walking…
Subscribe to Trending Forward: YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcast When Marco Riedesser reached out and suggested that we have a serious conversation about AI and jobs, my first reaction was probably the same as yours: haven’t we already been having that conversation? Every day, it seems, there is another headline about a company cutting thousands of jobs and blaming some part of it on AI. Every week there is another story about college graduates discovering that the entry-level jobs they were told to prepare for may no longer exist in quite the same way. And every few days, someone…