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Ownwell, which uses AI to let homeowners appeal property taxes, raised a $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $54M; it also raised $20M in debt (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ownwell-raise-lower-homeowner-propert…

Exclusive: Ownwell Lands $30M To Help Homeowners Lower Their Property Tax Bills
Ownwell, an AI-powered startup that appeals property taxes on behalf of homeowners, has secured $50 million in financing, including $30 million in equity and $20 million in debt, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

PowerToys 0.98: Bessere Performance und neues Dock für Befehlspalette
Die Entwickler der PowerToys versprechen für die frisch veröffentlichte Version 0.98 bessere Geschwindigkeit an allen Ecken und Enden.

📣 PhD and Postdoc call: Using data science to improve epidemic preparedness
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/03/18/phd-and-postdoc-call-using-data-science-to-improve-epidemic-preparedness/

One thing I'm interested in is government committing to transparency in service performance. This was one of the original features of the post-2012 approach... that got ignored and shuttered ( www.gov.uk/performance goes to an archive)
https://roadmap-…

Creating a consistent approach to measuring how digital services perform
GDS is establishing a consistent government digital performance framework to measure services, driving evidence-led improvements across departments.

Nederlanders steken grens over met jerrycans, politie probeert verkeershinder tegen te gaan: ‘Belgen zijn het spuugzat’ | Buitenland | De Gelderlander.nl
#benzineprijs

U.S. Military Prepares to Board Iran-Linked Ships in Coming Days, Officials Say (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-military-prepares-to-board-iran-linked-ships-in-coming-days-officials-say-4dc0a718
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p36#a260418p36

The fastverse is a suite of complementary high-performance packages for statistical computing and data manipulation in R. #rstats

GitHub - fastverse/fastverse: An Extensible Suite of High-Performance and Low-Dependency Packages for Statistical Computing and Data Manipulation in R
An Extensible Suite of High-Performance and Low-Dependency Packages for Statistical Computing and Data Manipulation in R - fastverse/fastverse

‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3C of global heating https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/16/europe-climate-advisory-board-3c-global-heating

Paraform, which connects tech companies with specialized recruiters, raised a $40M Series B led by Scale VP (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/03/18/paraform-ai-recruiting-series-b

Sources: Nvidia is preparing to sell a version of Groq chips to the Chinese market that is expected to be available in May and will not be downgraded (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-preparing-groq-ch…