Trucking in a fuel crisis: the Australian driver sacrificing his paycheck for diesel – video
By Shot, produced and edited by Sarah Smaje . Additional camera work by Sanjana Jose , Additional Production by Sanjana Jose and Sarah Bertram , Executive producers are Michael Kalenderian, Molly Glassey and Shelley Hepworth

Frank is a truck owner-driver, meaning he owns his own truck, picks up contracts wherever he happens to be in Australia and pays for his own fuel. He can spend up to two months at a time on the road, and lives by the rule-of-thumb that one third of a job's pay should go to fuel, one third should go to truck maintenance and the remaining third is his wages.  But the war in Iran, leading to increased diesel prices, has put significant financial strain on this model. Coupled with historically slim margins in the transport industry, it's threatening to send drivers like Frank over the edge

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/may/30/trucking-in-a-fuel-crisis-the-australian-driver-sacrificing-his-paycheck-for-diesel-video

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The Guardian | Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’ by Varsha Bansal

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Meta is rapidly reshaping its workforce around artificial‑intelligence projects, mandating that more than 7,000 employees transfer to two newly created teams—one focused on AI‑cloud infrastructure and another building an internal AI agent called “Hatch”—and earlier moving about 1,000 engineers onto a data‑labelling group named Applied AI with “transfers aren’t optional.” The restructuring also trims managers’ direct reports, pushes many into individual contributor roles, and comes amid plans to lay off roughly 10 % of staff despite strong earnings, while a new internal monitoring tool records workers’ mouse movements, keystrokes and other computer‑use data to train Meta’s AI models. Employees, fearing an increasingly authoritarian culture, have organised petitions opposing the data‑collection practice, signed by over 500 staff, and are seeking to form a union with United Tech and Allied Workers in the UK. The moves reflect Meta’s race to catch up with rivals such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, highlighted by a $135 billion AI‑infrastructure budget and the recent launch of its Muse Spark model, but they have sparked growing discontent and uncertainty within the company’s workforce.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/19/meta-jobs-ai-transfers

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