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Tinder unveils updates designed to reinvigorate its product, bolster safety, and harness AI, including an Events tab and a virtual speed dating test in LA (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/tind

Tinder tries to lure people back to online dating with IRL events, virtual speed dating | TechCrunch
Tinder just got a major revamp as it attempts to re-engange its user base and attract younger daters. This includes in-person events, AI enhancements, and even virtual speed dating.

FPF Papers for Policymakers: Impactful Privacy and AI Scholarship for a Digital Future
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-papers-for-policymakers-impactful-privacy-and-ai-scholarship-for-a-digital-future/
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Tonight (Wed, March 18) at 6:30 pm (EDT) a public event on "Time's Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature" by Bob Hazen and Mike Wong. ⚒️🧪 #mineralogy
Virtual registration at https://carnegiescie…

Time's Second Arrow
Join Carnegie Science researchers Robert M. Hazen and Michael L. Wong for a lively discussion about their proposed "second arrow of time"—a heretofore missing law of nature that explains how the marvelously complex constituents of our universe came to be.

Tomorrow, I will participate in an online roundtable on
"‘Race’, Whiteness, and Holocaust Refugees in the Colonial World"
organized by the #Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University
Featuring Rosa de Jong (University of Utrecht), Jochen Lingelbach (University of Bayreuth), and Pragya Kaul Guido (University of Michigan). Moderated by Shirli Gilbert…

Not good. The US federal government is hiring fewer and fewer people in cybersecurity roles in the face of budget slashing
Instead of the 75-plus agencies that typically showed up to the in-person fair, roughly 40 agencies were at February’s virtual event.
https://…

CyberCorps grads consider private sector as fed hiring challenges persist
The challenges faced by CyberCorps scholars threaten to upend a program that has shuttled early-career cyber talent to federal agencies for nearly 25 years.

FDA Rare Disease Day 2026
February 23 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EST
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hosted Rare Disease Day,
a virtual public meeting, on Monday, February 23, 2026 in global observance of Rare Disease Week.
The theme is:
“Moving Forward. Looking Ahead. An Event for Patients.”
The goal of this year’s Rare Disease Day is to explore ways to engage and collaborate with patients and their communities to support and accelerate the development …

Vitalik Buterin outlines a two-part plan to overhaul Ethereum's execution layer with a binary state tree and eventually move beyond the Ethereum virtual machine (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/391681/vitali

Of interest to experimental petrologists, upcoming virtual workshop "to discuss and plan to address systematic bias in predictive models caused by the way trace element partitioning data is currently published." #geology #geochemistry ⚒️

Overview
This workshop overview page outlines a February–March 2026 virtual event for experimental petrologists, editors, and program managers to address systemic bias in trace element partitioning data by advocating for publication of raw analytical data to support FAIR principles, improve model accuracy, and establish community-driven data standards.