If you tried to open Facebook today only to find yourself abruptly logged out, staring at a blank screen, or greeted by a cryptic "Session Expired" message, don't panic—your account hasn't been hacked. The Great Meta Blackout On Friday, June 12, 2026 , Meta’s flagship platforms suffered a sudden and massive global disruption. Millions of users worldwide have found themselves locked out of Facebook , Messenger , and Instagram , sparking a massive wave of digital confusion. Here is everything we know about the ongoing blackout. What is Happening? The outage began hitting users globally on Friday morning (EDT) / Friday evening (across Asia and Europe). The breakdown has severely disrupted Meta's core ecosystem: Facebook : Users are being aggressively logged out of their active sessions. Those attempting to log back in are facing "Unexpected Error" notifications, while desktop users are seeing entirely blank pages or a message reading, " Something went...
Artificial intelligence can code, write stellar essays, and analyze massive amounts of complex data in seconds. Yet, according to a groundbreaking study published in PNAS Nexus , today’s smartest AI systems miserably fail at a task a human child can do: staying focused when a simple distraction gets in the way. A research team led by Suketu Patel from Queens College ( CUNY ) put today's leading Large Language Models (LLMs)—including GPT-4o, GPT-5, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude Opus 4.1, and Gemini 2.5—through the ultimate psychological stress test. The results? A complete "performance collapse" that exposes a fundamental flaw in how AI attention works. What is the Stroop Task? To evaluate the cognitive boundaries of AI, researchers turned to the color Stroop task , a gold-standard psychology test introduced by John Ridley Stroop in 1935 to measure "executive control" (the brain's ability to manage focus, regulate attention, and resist distractions). The test is...