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New research shows colorectal cancer incidence is increasing across nearly all age groups in the United States, reversing a roughly 20-year trend of decline. The findings point to a shift in who is being diagnosed, with rising cases no longer confined to older adults.
Apple's iOS 26 includes a call-screening feature that lets iPhone users manage calls from unsaved numbers, including political campaign calls. Users can choose between three settings: allowing all calls through as before, requiring unknown callers to state their reason for calling before the phone rings, or silencing all unknown numbers directly to voicemail. The feature works on any iPhone compatible with iOS 26, including older models like the iPhone 14 Pro.
A contributor to Entrepreneur argues that companies should shift hiring criteria away from matching past job experience toward assessing a candidate's capacity to learn and adapt as AI changes job requirements. The piece cites NFIB data from September showing 45% of small-business owners had few or no qualified applicants, and 26% ranked labor quality as their top business concern, more than double the historical average.
A hiring manager's social media post describing how automated applicant-tracking systems can filter out qualified candidates has gone viral. The post argues that positions can remain unfilled for months not because no suitable candidates exist, but because screening software mistakenly rejects them before a human ever reviews their application.
Quest Diagnostics will roll out an at-home HPV self-collection test using BD's Onclarity assay to patients across the U.S. starting next year. The FDA cleared the test for home use in April, allowing women to collect a sample themselves instead of undergoing an in-clinic pelvic exam.
Apple's Phone app now includes Hold Assist, which detects when a caller has put you on hold and notifies you when they return, and Call Screening, which questions unsaved numbers before letting them ring through and displays their response on the Lock Screen. Both features arrived with iOS 26 and are toggled on in Settings under Apps > Phone. A third feature, Call Context, is planned for iOS 27 and will use Apple Intelligence to surface relevant information automatically when calling a business.
Satirical creator Graham Zip posted a YouTube video in which he had a personal AI chatbot named Victor join him on a video call with an employer's AI interviewer. The two AI systems repeatedly talked over each other and exaggerated Graham's qualifications, prompting him to interrupt and correct his own bot's claims about his job title.
A study published in JAMA found that mandatory testosterone screening ordered by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth could flag up to a quarter of active-duty Army members as having low testosterone, even though the true prevalence of the condition is likely far lower. Researchers from Pennington Biomedical Research Center and the US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine analyzed blood samples from 479 male soldiers across five Army installations, collected between August 2024 and January 2026.
A tech writer reports that enabling Apple's Call Screening feature, introduced in iOS 26 with the 'Ask Reason for Calling' option, eliminated spam and scam calls impersonating their mobile carrier and fake job offers that had been arriving weekly. The feature requires callers to state their reason before the phone rings through to the user.
An Entrepreneur opinion piece argues that widely used hiring criteria — resume formatting conventions, degree requirements, years-of-experience minimums and expectations of steady career progression — were rarely validated and instead became standard through repetition. It cites a 2026 audit of 14 AI resume-screening models showing that a 2023-built model still favored 'white-sounding' names in callbacks, while models built from 2024 onward showed no such gap.
Emma Waters, 28, joined the Heritage Foundation in 2022 as an analyst covering reproductive and fertility technology, writing policy briefs and op-eds and advising lawmakers on issues like embryo screening, IVF and surrogacy. In 2023 she appeared on Fox News warning that Chinese-linked surrogacy arrangements using American surrogates posed a national security risk, well before mainstream outlets covered the topic.
Researchers analyzed genome-wide data from over 140,000 participants in the Mexico City Prospective Study, combining it with reference panels from the 1000 Genomes Project and Human Genome Diversity Project to estimate individual ancestry proportions across Indigenous American, European, African and East Asian populations. Using an ADMIXTURE model with four ancestral groups, they examined how differences in ancestry proportions among siblings within the same family relate to complex traits, isolating genetic ancestry effects from shared environmental and socioeconomic factors.