The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra isn’t rectangular like its predecessor, and the Galaxy S26 Ultra may stray further from that Note-esque design.
The Galaxy S25 Ultra ditched the sharp corners of the Galaxy S24 Ultra for curved corners. The phone’s successor is going to have even rounder corners, says esteemed leaker Ice Universe.
While a boxy design gave the Galaxy S24 Ultra a sleek look and a unique identity, the piercing corners dug into users’ palms during usage. The Galaxy S25 Ultra‘s corners are only subtly curved, and not as round as those of the Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Plus. So, if you want an idea of what the Galaxy S25 Ultra‘s corners may look like, those phones might be a close approximation, though, of course, we aren’t privy to the design and are only making an educated guess.
The Galaxy S26 Ultra will have more rounded corners than the Galaxy S25 Ultra.
The Galaxy S25 Ultra also let go of the S24 Ultra’s curved sides for straight edges, which made it easier to grasp. It’s not known if this element will also be refined.
The Galaxy S26 Ultra is rumored to have a 6.89-inch screen, up from the S25 Ultra’s 6.86-inch display. This will be achieved by trimming the bezels instead of increasing the phone’s dimensions.
Another change that was previously leaked by Ice is the return of the camera island. Samsung will allegedly place the primary, ultrawide, and 5x telephoto cameras on a raised area instead of sticking them on the back. The company is allegedly making this change to accommodate the upgraded main and telephoto cameras.
The phone might be thinner and lighter than the current model.
The upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 is expected to power the phone, and it will be paired with the latest RAM technology for fluid performance. Per a recent rumor, the Galaxy S26 Ultra could feature Flex Magic Pixel technology to prevent others from snooping on you.
So far, the rumors about the Galaxy S26 Ultra have been promising. If Samsung nails it, it will be a three-peat of successful launches.
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Covid-19 could leave behind a hidden problem that lingers in women’s bodies for years, a new study has found. The study, published in the European Heart Journal, has found that the virus can prematurely age women’s blood vessels by around five years. This in turn increases the risk of heart attacks in women and stroke in later stages of life.
The study, followed nearly 2400 adults across 16 countries, sheds light on how researchers tracked changes in artery stiffness at six and 12 months after infection, and what they found was striking.
Covid linked to heart problems in women?
Women who had Covid showed significant stiffening of their arteries, even when their original illness was mild, as per the study. The more severe the infection, the worse the damage.Researchers say this is important since people with stiffer blood vessels face a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, including stroke and heart attack.
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The study was led by Professor Rosa Maria Bruno from Université Paris Cité, France. She said: “Since the pandemic, we have learned that many people who have had Covid are left with symptoms that can last for months or even years. However, we are still learning what’s happening in the body to create these symptoms.
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“We know that Covid can directly affect blood vessels. We believe that this may result in what we call early vascular ageing, meaning that your blood vessels are older than your chronological age and you are more susceptible to heart disease. If that is happening, we need to identify who is at risk at an early stage to prevent heart attacks and strokes.”Women admitted to intensive care had the highest increase, but the effect was still seen in those who stayed at home. The study also shed light on long Covid. Women who continued to experience fatigue, breathlessness or brain fog were more likely to have signs of vascular aging.Arterial stiffening matters because it is strongly linked to cardiovascular disease. Experts estimate the five-year “aging” of blood vessels could raise the risk of heart problems by about 3 percent for a 60-year-old woman. By comparison, the effect in men was not statistically significant.ALSO READ: Streaming platform Kick bans Raja Jackson after brutal 20-punch assault on Syko Stu. All about Quinton Rampage’s son
What about vaccinated people?
Researchers also recorded demographic information such as patient’s sex, age and other factors that can influence cardiovascular health. The effect was greater in women than in men and in people who experienced the persistent symptoms of long Covid, such as shortness of breath and fatigue.
People who had been vaccinated against Covid generally had arteries that were less stiff than people who were unvaccinated. Over the longer term, the vascular ageing associated with Covid infection seemed to stabilise or improve slightly.
Professor Bruno said: “There are several possible explanations for the vascular effects of Covid. The Covid-19 virus acts on specific receptors in the body, called the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptors, that are present on the lining of the blood vessels. The virus uses these receptors to enter and infect cells. This may result in vascular dysfunction and accelerated vascular ageing. Our body’s inflammation and immune responses, which defend against infections, may be also involved.
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“One of the reasons for the difference between women and men could be differences in the function of the immune system. Women mount a more rapid and robust immune response, which can protect them from infection. However, this same response can also increase damage to blood vessels after the initial infection.
“Vascular ageing is easy to measure and can be addressed with widely available treatments, such as lifestyle changes, blood pressure-lowering and cholesterol-lowering drugs. For people with accelerated vascular ageing, it is important to do whatever possible to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.”
Women who have had Covid, particularly those with ongoing symptoms, should be mindful of their heart health, experts say. Regular check-ups, a healthy lifestyle, and management of blood pressure and cholesterol could all help offset the risk.
Northwestern University researchers have unveiled a first-of-its-kind cancer treatment strategy that doesn’t attack tumors directly, but instead strips cancer cells of their ability to adapt and resist therapy. Credit: Shutterstock
Restoring cellular memory blocks cancer cells from adapting to escape treatment.
Northwestern University biomedical engineers have developed a completely new approach to cancer therapy that doubled the effectiveness of chemotherapy in animal studies.
Rather than focusing on directly killing cancer cells, this pioneering method stops the cells from adapting in ways that allow them to resist treatment. By blocking this evolutionary escape route, the disease becomes more vulnerable to drugs already in use. The strategy not only nearly eliminated cancer in cell cultures but also greatly enhanced the impact of chemotherapy in mouse models of human ovarian cancer.
The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“Cancer cells are great adapters,” said Northwestern’s Vadim Backman, who led the study. “They can adapt to almost anything that’s thrown at them. First, they learn to evade the immune system. Then, they learn how to adapt to chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and radiation. When they resist these treatments, they live longer and acquire mutations. We did not set out to directly kill cancer cells. We wanted to take away their superpower — removing their inherent abilities to adapt, to change, and to evade.”
Backman is the Sachs Family Professor Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering, where he directs the Center for Physical Genomics and Engineering. He also is a member of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University, the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute and the International Institute for Nanotechnology.
Chromatin is key to cancer’s survival
Cancer displays many unique characteristics, but its defining trait is its extraordinary capacity to survive. Even under attack from the immune system or aggressive medical therapies, tumors may shrink or slow down, yet they rarely vanish entirely. While genetic mutations contribute to this resilience, they occur too gradually to fully explain how quickly cancer cells adapt.
Backman and his team uncovered a central mechanism behind this phenomenon. They found that the structural organization of chromatin—the complex of DNA, RNA, and proteins—governs cancer’s adaptability and survival against powerful drugs.
Chromatin serves as the framework that determines which genes are active and which remain suppressed. Because nearly two meters of DNA must be compressed into a cell nucleus only one hundredth of a millimeter wide, chromatin is densely compacted.
By combining imaging, computer simulations, systems modeling, and live-animal experiments, the researchers revealed that the three-dimensional layout of chromatin not only controls gene expression and stress responses but also encodes a kind of memory of transcriptional activity within its packing geometry.
This 3D arrangement functions much like a self-learning algorithm, constantly reorganizing into thousands of nanoscopic chromatin packing domains. Each domain preserves a piece of transcriptional memory that guides how a cell behaves. Over time, these domains are shaped and reshaped by cellular experiences, reinforced, stored, and rewritten. When this system goes awry, it can contribute to cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and even the process of aging.
In cancer specifically, disrupted chromatin packing gives cells greater plasticity, meaning they can more readily adapt and ultimately learn to resist therapies such as chemotherapy.
Reprogramming chromatin to boost chemotherapy
In their latest research, Backman and his colleagues created a computational model grounded in physics to examine how chromatin organization affects a cancer cell’s likelihood of surviving chemotherapy. When they applied the model across different cancer cell types and multiple classes of chemotherapy drugs, it successfully predicted survival outcomes even before treatment began.
Recognizing that chromatin structure plays a central role in cancer cell persistence, the researchers explored what would happen if they deliberately modified that structure. Rather than designing entirely new medications, they screened hundreds of existing drug compounds to identify those capable of reshaping the nuclear environment in a way that influences chromatin packing. From this effort, they identified celecoxib, an FDA-approved anti-inflammatory medication already in clinical use. Commonly prescribed for conditions such as arthritis and certain cardiovascular issues, celecoxib also happens to affect chromatin packing — a property that made it a strong candidate for further testing.
The top row is untreated cancer cells and the bottom is chemotherapy treated. The left column is the whole nucleus while the right is zoomed into a portion of the nucleus. The untreated cells have larger clusters which correspond to chromatin packing, and the cells treated with chemotherapy have many clusters that are a lot smaller in size. Chemo-evasive cells have more packing domains and potentially more surface areas for enhanced gene expression. Credit: Vadim Backman Laboratory/Northwestern University
“Several drugs, including celecoxib, can regulate chromatin and repress plasticity,” Backman said. “With this approach, we now can design strategies that synergize with chemotherapy or other existing therapies. The important finding is the concept itself. This particular drug just proves the point.”
“This study opens up novel therapeutic avenues to treat cancer that can supplement existing treatments,” said Rachel Ye, a graduate student in Backman’s laboratory. “It is exciting to see how we are unraveling the mysteries of genome organization through multidisciplinary approaches, and this paper is a strong result of that effort.”
Experimental results
According to Backman, celecoxib and similar drugs could become a new class of compounds, called Transcriptional Plasticity Regulators (TPRs), designed to modulate chromatin conformation to prevent cancer cells’ adaptive abilities. The researchers found that combining celecoxib with standard chemotherapy caused a substantial increase in the number of cancer cells that died.
After proving its effectiveness in cellular cultures, Backman and his team wanted to demonstrate its potential in a more realistic biological system. The team combined paclitaxel (a common chemotherapy drug) with celecoxib in a mouse model of ovarian cancer. The experiments revealed that the combination reduced the cancer cells’ adaptation rates and improved the inhibition of tumor growth — outperforming paclitaxel alone.
“The animal model that we used has incredible predictive power for what happens in humans,” Backman said. “When we treated them with a low dose of chemotherapy, the tumors continued to grow. But, as soon as we combined the chemotherapy with the TPR candidate, we saw much more significant inhibition. It doubled the efficacy.”
By making chemotherapy more effective, the new strategy potentially could also enable physicians to prescribe lower doses of chemotherapy for their patients. Lower, yet still effective, doses could reduce the burden of chemotherapy’s infamously difficult side effects. That would mark a significant improvement in patients’ overall comfort and experience during cancer treatment.
“Chemotherapy can be so hard on the body,” Backman said. “A lot of patients, quite understandably, sometimes choose to forego chemotherapy. They don’t want to suffer in order to live a few months longer. Maybe reducing that suffering would change the equation.”
Future directions for other diseases
Backman only has focused on cancer so far, but he thinks modulating chromatin conformation might be the key to treating various complex diseases, including heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases and more. Although most cells in a multicellular organism share the exact same genome, there are hundreds of cell types such as bone, neurons, skin, heart tissue, blood and so on. Understanding the physical rules governing how so many different types of cells, with such different functions, can result from the same instruction set is crucial; the conformation of chromatin and the cellular transcriptional memory are what allow all of these different cell types to “remember” which genes to express in order to perform their particular cellular function properly and to work coherently with the cells around them.
Backman posits that some complex diseases, rather than being caused entirely by genetic mutations, may be rooted both in mutations and in cells’ losing their correct transcriptional memories. The loss of a cell type-specific transcriptional lineage in neurons has been associated with early stage neurodegeneration, for example. Cells can also forget which genes to express for normal function when they undergo stress, and that incorrect expression may then become written into the cellular memory, leading to loss of cell function or even disease. Reprogramming chromatin conformation could help restore cells’ correct memories, potentially enabling them to return to a normal state.
“In many diseases, cells forget what they should be doing,” Backman said. “Many impactful diseases of the 21st century are, to a large extent, related to cell memory. Each cell in our body has several thousand chromatin domains, which are actual physical elements of transcriptional memory. The computational complexity that happens in every single cell is equivalent to a 1984 Apple computer. Cells maintain memory for a long time, but they can also develop spurious memories or lose memories. Cancer cells take that to the extreme. I think what we have found here is the source code of cell memory.”
Reference: “Leveraging chromatin packing domains to target chemoevasion in vivo” by Jane Frederick, Ranya K. A. Virk, I Chae Ye, Luay M. Almassalha, Greta M. Wodarcyk, David VanDerway, Ruyi Gong, Cody L. Dunton, Tiffany Kuo, Karla I. Medina, Margarita Loxas, Jared T. Ahrendsen, Demirkan B. Gursel, Paola Carrillo Gonzalez, Rikkert J. Nap, Saira John, Vasundhara Agrawal, Nicholas M. Anthony, John Carinato, Wing Shun Li, Rivaan Kakkaramadam, Surbhi Jain, Shohreh Shahabi, Guillermo A. Ameer, Igal G. Szleifer and Vadim Backman, 22 July 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2425319122
Supported from the National Institutes of Health (grant numbers U54CA268084, U54CA193419, R01CA228272, R01CA225002, R01CA155284, R01CA165309, T32GM132604, T32GM008152 and T32HL076139), National Science Foundation (grant numbers EFMA-1830961, EFMA-1830968, EFMA-1830969, CBET-1249311, EFRI-1240416, DGE-0824162 and DGE-184216), the Lefkovsky Innovation Award and the Chicago Biomedical Consortium with support from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trus
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The ambassador said, “The question of Jammu and Kashmir is intrinsic to Pakistan’s diplomatic agenda and moral compass. At its core, it represents a people’s right to self?determination, promised under multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions and recognized by the international community.” “Despite persistent efforts, the situation remains deeply challenging and the unilateral actions of 5 August 2019 continue to curtail the rights of Kashmiri people. Fundamental freedoms remain suppressed and political expression, mobility, and access to justice are constrained,” he remarked. Ambassador Qureshi said, “Yet, the resilience of the Kashmiri people shines through. Their steadfast commitment to justice serves as a powerful beacon for all who believe in the rule of law and human dignity.” “Efforts to silence the genuine leadership of the Kashmiri people are part of the wider hegemonic and extremist agenda behind India’s illegal occupation of Jammu & Kashmir,” he observed, stating, “The imprisonment of Kashmiri leaders and activists, including Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Yasin Malik and Masarrat Alam Bhatt will never dim the resolve of our Kashmiri sisters and brothers. The continued defiance of Kashmiris in an environment of unending intimidation across the illegal Indian occupation is further proof of the indomitable courage of the Kashmiri people. India’s illegal occupation of Jammu & Kashmir remains the defining conflict in South Asia and the reason for India’s continued rogue behaviour.” He stressed that India’s unprovoked aggression against Pakistan in May 2025, and its swift and comprehensive military defeat were only the latest evidence of the urgent need for the international community to ensure that resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute becomes a global priority. “Honouring the will and aspirations of the Kashmiri people, in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions provides the only path forward towards lasting peace in South Asia,” he asserted. The ambassador said, “Our success in Marka-e-Haq and Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos is a landmark moment in our history. It was a demonstration of unshakable national will, professional excellence, and united purpose. Faced with unjustified Indian aggression, Pakistan responded with clarity, courage and restraint. The world witnessed a nation that is peace-loving, but fully capable of defending its sovereignty and territorial integrity.” “The military capability, valour and faith of our brave soldiers and air warriors forced the enemy to kneel down. We pay tribute to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the sake of our freedom and offer prayers for the elevation of their ranks in eternal life,” he continued. He drew attention to a European Parliament–commissioned study on transnational repression of human rights defenders. “This report, requested by the Parliament’s sub-committee on Human Rights and finalized in June 2025, outlines how governments including India have extended coercion beyond borders. This includes tactics such as surveillance, digital intimidation, misuse of Interpol notices, and physical threats aimed at silencing exiled critics and activists in host countries,” he mentioned. He said, “These developments are deeply instructive for us. Just as Kashmiri voices face suppression at home, many continue to encounter intimidation abroad.” He urged the international community, and especially the European Union to stand firm against such cross-border attempts to silence dialogue, dissent, and justice. While appreciating the steadfast advocacy of Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the Kashmir cause, both within Pakistan and on international platforms, the ambassador said the Governor’s voice has been a source of strength and encouragement for all those committed to justice and human dignity. “The Governor’s consistent engagement with political leaders, civil society, and the media has helped keep the plight of the Kashmiri people at the forefront of national consciousness,” he said adding, “By amplifying the voices of the oppressed and underlining Pakistan’s principled position, the Governor has contributed meaningfully to ensuring that the issue of Jammu and Kashmir remains alive in public discourse and firmly anchored in our national priorities.” He recalled that in June 2025, a high-level parliamentary delegation led by Member of the National Assembly, former Foreign Minister, and Chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari underscored the centrality of the Jammu and Kashmir dispute in Pakistan’s foreign policy and highlighted the just struggle of the Kashmiri people. While expressing his deepest condolences on the tragic loss of precious lives in the recent floods in Pakistan, he said, “Our thoughts and prayers are with the bereaved families, and we stand in solidarity with all those affected by this natural calamity.” He said the devastating floods were yet another reminder of the urgency of collective climate action, particularly for vulnerable countries like Pakistan that were disproportionately affected despite contributing little to global emissions. He called on the international community to redouble efforts to build resilience, mobilize resources, and pursue equitable climate justice.
A diet high in omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), primarily obtained from fish oils, may lower the risk of myopia in children, according to findings published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. In contrast, a diet rich in saturated fats, such as those found in butter, palm oil, and red meat, may increase the risk of the condition.
The global prevalence of myopia continues to rise, with projections suggesting that nearly half of the world’s population will be affected by 2050. Risk factors for myopia are understood to include excessive near work, limited time outdoors, and genetic predisposition. Diet, however, has been less well established as a modifiable factor influencing refractive development.
Researchers from the Hong Kong Children Eye Study (HKCES) analyzed dietary patterns and ocular health outcomes in 1005 Chinese children aged 6 to 8 years. The cross-sectional study used a validated food frequency questionnaire encompassing 280 food items across 10 food categories. Axial length (AL) and cycloplegic spherical equivalent (SE) refraction were measured to assess eye growth and refractive status.
Among the participants, 276 children (27.5%) were found to have myopia. Analysis demonstrated that axial length was significantly longer in children in the lowest quartile of omega-3 fatty acid intake compared with those in the highest quartile (adjusted mean, 23.29 mm vs 23.08 mm; p = .01). SE also showed a protective association, with the lowest quartile group averaging more myopic refractions (−0.13 D) compared with the highest quartile (+0.23 D; p = .01). Conversely, children in the highest quartile of saturated fat intake demonstrated longer AL and more myopic SE compared with those in the lowest quartile.
“This study provides the human evidence that higher dietary ω-3 PUFA intake is associated with shorter axial length and less myopic refraction, highlighting ω-3 PUFAs as a potential protective dietary factor against myopia development,” the investigators concluded.
The biological mechanisms underlying these associations may relate to ocular blood flow. Omega-3 fatty acids are believed to increase choroidal blood circulation, supplying oxygen and nutrients to the sclera and thereby reducing scleral hypoxia, a known factor in myopia development. In contrast, saturated fats are associated with insulin resistance, which has been hypothesized to play a role in excessive axial elongation.
The study builds on prior animal research that has suggested a protective role for omega-3 fatty acids in slowing myopia progression. For example, supplementation in animal models has been shown to suppress experimentally induced myopia and reduce scleral hypoxia. However, this is the first large-scale study in humans to establish a significant association between dietary omega-3 intake and myopia.
While the findings highlight a potential dietary strategy for mitigating myopia risk, the authors acknowledged important limitations. As an observational cross-sectional study, the data cannot establish causality. The use of food frequency questionnaires introduces the possibility of recall bias, and dietary intakes were not validated with serum biomarkers. Additionally, the study population was limited to Chinese children in Hong Kong, a population with one of the world’s highest myopia prevalence rates, which may limit generalizability to other ethnic groups and geographic regions.
Despite these limitations, the results suggest that dietary interventions may play a role in public health strategies for addressing myopia. “Our findings indicated a possible effect of diet on myopia, of which ω-3 PUFAs intake may play a protective role against myopia development in children,” the authors noted.
Further longitudinal studies and randomized clinical trials are warranted to confirm these findings and determine whether omega-3 supplementation or dietary modification can effectively reduce the onset or progression of myopia in pediatric populations.
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BMJ Group. Diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids may help ward off short sightedness in children. Eurekalert. August 19, 2025. Accessed August 20, 2025. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1095033
Zhang XJ, Zhang Y, Zhang YJ, et al. Dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as a protective factor of myopia: the Hong Kong Children Eye Study. British Journal of Ophthalmology. Published Online First: 19 August 2025. doi: 10.1136/bjo-2024-326872
Frank Bardelli knew right away that his recent job hunt was going to be different.
After the software engineer posted on LinkedIn a couple of months ago that he was looking for a role, he didn’t hear from former colleagues with offers to come work with them again, as he had during past searches.
“It was very different, and definitely drier than I’ve seen it be in many years,” Bardelli told Business Insider.
So, when he heard from a recruiter at Fonzi, which matches engineers with startups and tech companies, Bardelli was intrigued.
He completed a profile and applied to what Fonzi calls Match Day, the process through which employers can meet with candidates. Three of the 14 participating companies offered Bardelli interviews. That allowed him to sidestep a protracted job search and many of the headaches that go along with it, he said.
For many in tech, layoffs and sluggish hiring have translated to job searches marked by seemingly endless rounds of applying. Letting an employer come to you likely offers an appealing alternative.
That’s the hope of Yang Mou, Fonzi’s cofounder and CEO. He told Business Insider that the existing traditional recruiting process is inefficient and “broken for both sides.”
Mou said this results in candidates spending a lot of time trying to determine whether a company is a good fit. When candidates do land interviews, he said, they often repeat themselves in similar conversations with multiple employers.
Employers, for their part, are “getting flooded with applicants,” Mou said. “You put up a job post, you get 1,000 applicants in 24 hours.”
To try to make the whole process more palatable, Mou said, Fonzi takes candidates who know what they want in a new role and connects them with employers that have real jobs and “sane hiring processes.”
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“They’re not going to drag it out for three months,” he said, referring to employers.
Committing to a minimum salary
Companies seeking talent through Fonzi are required to commit to minimum salaries upfront so that candidates don’t have to go through rounds of interviews only to learn that the pay won’t cut it.
Mou said engineers must complete a “very selective” application process before being matched with an employer. Part of that involves a brief exchange with Fonzi’s AI interviewer. The agent can handle complex conversations, including understanding the candidate’s technical work.
Talking to an AI agent, Mou said, can be helpful for busy engineers who might want to wait until after the workday to complete that part of an application.
“It has infinite patience,” he said. “You can ramble for 15 minutes and it won’t cut you off.”
Fonzi combines the AI interview with candidates’ résumés, additional details on their work histories, and personal preferences such as where they want to work and for what type of company. A Fonzi recruiter then talks by phone with those who appear to be a good fit. From there, Fonzi invites top candidates to take part in Match Day and assigns each candidate a recruiter to work with during the job search.
The conversations with the recruiter help to identify important attributes, Mou said.
“Are they a capable communicator?” he said. “Would you want to work with this person?”
The discussions also help reveal more than what’s on someone’s résumé, said Bec Bliss, a recruiter who is Fonzi’s head of talent.
“Getting folks to talk about what they love, what they’re good at, what they want to be doing turns them into the full, 3D candidate instead of a sheet of paper,” she told Business Insider.
Each month, Fonzi AI has Match Day for engineers seeking in-person and hybrid roles in the New York area and for remote roles in the US. The company plans to offer in-person and hybrid roles in San Fransicso in October and other cities after that.
Fonzi is free for job seekers and charges a fee of 18% of the base salary if a company makes a hire. Because the business model is only about three months old, the company hasn’t released stats on how many workers employers have hired.
‘Happy to have any matches’
For Bardelli, the lackluster job market meant that after leaving a prior role, he expected to have to brush up on his interviewing and networking skills instead of relying on the network he’d built up over about 20 years in tech.
“I was hitting the market cold,” Bardelli said.
Networking, many recruiters insist, is still one of the best ways to find a job and get past the screening software that so many job seekers hate. Yet, if there’s not much hiring going on, the search can be tough even when you’re plugged in, as Bardelli is.
“A lot of people were like, ‘Yeah, hiring has kind of dried up at our company,’” he said, referring to comments he heard from industry colleagues.
Ultimately, Bardelli settled on an employer he connected with through Fonzi and started his new role this month.
He said that going into the process with Fonzi, he wondered whether employers would like what he had to offer, though he was optimistic.
“I thought my skills were relevant enough that maybe I’d get a match or two,” Bardelli said. “I was very happy to have any matches at all.”
Do you have a story to share about your job search? Contact this reporter at tparadis@businessinsider.com.
LAHORE, Aug 24 (APP):Scattered rain coupled with humid weather prevailed in the provincial capital on Sunday, with the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) forecasting similar conditions over the next 24 hours.
Rain was reported from several localities across the city. According to MET officials, a seasonal low lies over north Balochistan, while strong monsoon currents from the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea are penetrating the upper and central parts of the country. A westerly wave is also affecting most northern regions.
The forecast suggests rain-wind/thundershowers in Kashmir, upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, northeastern and eastern Punjab, and the Potohar region, with chances of isolated heavy falls in upper KP, Kashmir, and northeastern Punjab during the night. Isolated rain-wind/thundershowers are also expected in southeast Sindh, while hot and humid weather will prevail elsewhere.
Rainfall was recorded at various cities nationwide. Dalbandin experienced the day’s highest temperature at 43°C, while Lahore recorded a maximum of 34°C.
A Ukrainian journalist who was held incommunicado by Russia for more than three years has been released on Sunday as part of the latest prisoner exchange between Moscow and Kyiv.
For more than three years, Dmytro Khilyuk, 50, was one of the thousands of Ukrainian civilians detained in Russia, something illegal under international law.
Khilyuk’s elderly parents had no information about his whereabouts but kept campaigning for his release, attending meetings with politicians in Ukraine and abroad, going to protests and tirelessly writing to Russian authorities.
A video from the exchange on Sunday released by Ukrainian authorities showed Khilyuk calling his mother just moments after crossing into Ukraine.
“I knew you cared about me and worried about me. Mum, don’t cry. I’ll be home soon,” he can be heard saying.
Khilyuk and his father Vasyl were detained by Russian troops while attempting to get basic supplies during the occupation of their village, Kozarovychi, north of Kyiv. While Vasyl Khyliuk was released a few days later, Dmytro disappeared without a trace.
Moscow repeatedly denied holding him, despite numerous accounts from fellow prisoners placing him in detention facilities in Russia.
The Russian Investigative Committee and the Russian Prison Service in Bryansk both officially informed the Khyliuks’ lawyer in December 2022 and January 2023 that he was not in Russia and that they had no information about him.
CNN visited Khilyuk’s parents in 2024, shortly after Moscow finally admitted that Dima — as his parents call him — was in Russian custody.
All his parents had from Dima directly was a short, handwritten note dated April 2022, in which he told them he was “alive and well” and which the Khilyuks did not receive until August that year.
According to Khilyuk’s lawyer, he was never charged or convicted of any crime.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Khilyuk was among eight civilians released on Sunday, sharing photos of the group on his official Telegram channel.
Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of POWs said the eight civilians were released alongside soldiers and other security force members. It said all of the released were are privates and sergeants and almost all spent more than three years in captivity.
Ukraine did not say how many people were included in the exchange. The Russian Defence Ministry said earlier on Sunday that 146 Russian servicemen were returned from Ukraine in exchange for 146 Ukrainian prisoners of war, adding that eight Russian civilians from the Kursk region were also returned.
Kyiv has not commented on the claim that Russian civilians were included in the exchange. Previously, when Russian civilians were released from Ukraine, Kyiv said they were Russian saboteurs and collaborators.
Andriy Yermak, Zelensky’s Chief of Staff, said that former Kherson mayor Volodymyr Mykolayenko was also released on Sunday. Yermak said Mykolayenko spent more than three years in Russian captivity, having refused to be exchanged in 2022, insisting that a critically ill fellow prisoner be released first.
Speaking on Sunday, Mykolayenko said that he has “seen nothing but bars and concrete in recent years.”
He described Sunday as his “second birthday” and said: “It is a wonderful coincidence that my mother’s birthday is tomorrow. Mum, I love you very much. She is 91 years old … I did not know if I would find her alive and well.”
The Ukrainian government said another journalist, Mark Kaliush, was also freed on Sunday, as was Serhiy Kovalyov, a medic who treated injured soldiers and civilians during the siege of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.
Their release marks a rare moment of hope for the families of Ukrainians detained in Russia.
According to Kyiv, at least 16,000 Ukrainian civilians are known to be detained in Russia, although the real number is likely to be much higher.
Some 37,000 Ukrainians, including civilians, children and members of the military, are officially recognized as missing.
Many have been detained in occupied territories, detained for months or even years without any charges or trial, and deported to Russia. They include activists, priests, politicians and community leaders as well as people who appear to have been snatched by Russian troops at random at checkpoints and other places in occupied Ukraine.
Some 30 Ukrainian journalists are currently detained in Russia, most without ever being charged or convicted of anything, according to Ukraine’s Institute of Mass Information.
The detention of civilians by an occupying power is illegal under international laws of conflict, except in a few narrowly-defined situations and with strict time limits.
There is no established legal framework for the treatment and exchange of civilian detainees in the same way there is for prisoners of war.
Aamna Malick is a stunning Pakistani television actress whose claim to fame TV appearance was ARY Digital’s reality show Tamasha. She was part of Tamasha Season 1. Her other hit dramas are Berung, Hook, Jeewan Nagar, Rani Naukarani and Mera Dil Mera Dushman. Aamna Malick is currently getting praise for her popular Green Entertainment drama series Do Kinaray.
Aamna Malick is playing the role of Mawra in Do Kinaray, who is Waleed’s second wife. Mawra is a simple girl who dresses modestly and is not loved by her husband. In contrast to Mawra, Aamna Malick is a bold Pakistani actress who often shares her pictures in pants and tank tops on social media. Here are her latest pictures:
In her recent pictures, she donned multiple bold looks which are igniting hilarious reactions on social media. Many said that she’s trying to impress Waleed through her revealing fits. Another wrote, “No way, she can’t be Mawra.” Another fan wrote, “Dureshehwar is right, she treats her the way she deserves.” One fan wrote , “I didn’t expect Mawra to be this bold in real life”. Read the comments:
