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LinkedIn is launching features allowing users to showcase multiple jobs on their profiles, a connections-only "network" feed, and a phone-wallet business card for in-person networking. It's also introducing "Advice Sessions," letting business premium subscribers in the US charge for one-on-one consultations without LinkedIn taking a cut, plus a new analytics dashboard and expanded video ad revenue-sharing for creators.
Pennsylvania-based startup Mosqitter, which makes chemical-free mosquito traps that mimic human heat, scent and breath, says it now has more than 5,000 devices deployed across five continents, up from roughly 250 in 2022. CEO Anastasiia Romanova told TechCrunch the company is turning these traps into an AI-powered monitoring network designed to identify mosquito species, track population changes and provide earlier warnings of disease risk.
Researchers ran a randomized controlled trial across 176 Honduran villages in Copán Department, enrolling 24,702 people who agreed to monthly health-worker visits, randomization and repeated surveys over 22 months. Within a subset of 110 villages assigned to random-targeting arms, dosage of the intervention varied from 0% (control) to 100% of residents, allowing researchers to study how varying levels of treatment altered village-level social network structure.
Sui Foundation announced on October 12, 2026 a $30 million investment in DATA Network, the AI training-data project formerly known as Story Protocol, which will shut down its own Layer 1 and migrate to run natively on Sui. The project's Trace registry, which logs provenance and licensing rights for training data and has logged over 250 million registrations since its June 2026 launch, will move to Sui, with Sui's Walrus storage platform becoming the default storage layer for DATA Foundation applications.
The journal Nature published an author correction to a previously published paper on Parkinson's disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder. The correction updates an incomplete competing interests statement, disclosing multiple authors' financial ties to companies including Neural Galaxy, Galaxy Brain Scientific, Beijing Pins Medical, Turing Medical, and others, along with patent holdings and consulting arrangements. The statement clarifies these companies had no role in the study's design, analysis, or publication decision.
A user investigating unstable large downloads in Firefox found that the browser's default network.http.response.timeout setting of 300 seconds, present since Firefox 28, interferes with resuming interrupted downloads. Setting that value to 0 (or a very large number) via about:config reportedly makes large downloads both resumable and more stable, though the fix only works if the server itself supports resumable downloads.
Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to The Social Network earned only $5.5 million in its opening weekend, according to Variety, against a production budget estimated between $30 and $42 million. The film currently holds a 55% Rotten Tomatoes score and has drawn criticism on social media, a sharp contrast to The Social Network's $22 million debut.
Direct admission programs, which offer college acceptance to students who meet set eligibility criteria without requiring an application, have been adopted statewide in 15 states as of December 2025, according to the National College Attainment Network. A peer-reviewed study of Idaho's program found it raised first-time undergraduate enrollment by 4-8%, mostly at two-year, open-access schools, but showed little to no increase in enrollment among Pell-eligible students.
Cleta Mitchell's Election Integrity Network is telling supporters to call and email nursing homes, care homes and assisted-living facilities ahead of the midterms, alleging without evidence that left-wing groups are manipulating residents' ballots. The group has distributed a toolkit and shared maps identifying care facilities in competitive congressional districts, calling residents potential targets for "political predators." Mitchell cited a disputed 2020 Wisconsin case, rejected by the state's election commission, as justification; neither she nor the network responded to requests for comment.
Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to 'The Social Network' debuted to an estimated $5.5 million at the domestic box office this weekend, falling short of the studio's own projection of $7-8 million. The film depicts whistleblower Frances Haugen's leak of internal Facebook documents, in contrast to the earlier film's $22 million opening and $97 million domestic total.
A large collection of internal Cartoon Network materials has leaked online, reportedly including content tied to shows such as 'Regular Show' and 'Teen Titans.' The leak is described as covering decades of the network's history, though the exact source and scope of the breach remain unclear.
The Verge's Installer newsletter highlights a new Facebook-focused film starring Jeremy Strong and written by Aaron Sorkin, along with Amazon's newly launched Alexa Tablet 12 Pro. The edition also rounds up other recommended shows, games, gadgets and a book about the AI industry.