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Am Freitag den 04. September 2026 spielt um 19:00 Uhr der fabelhafte Dominic Merten bei uns in der Dorfkirche in Groß Dölln. Der ist cool, lustig und sogar aus der Gegend. Habe ihn schon mehrfach live gesehen und kann sagen es war ein großer Spaß
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Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold review: tougher body with IP68 rating and a decent triple rear camera but an iterative hardware upgrade with design that feels dated (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/981956/google-pixel-11-pro-fold-review
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Google’s Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
Google’s Pixel 11 Pro Fold is a great foldable, with IP68 and a reliable triple camera, trapped in a shape everyone else seems to be moving on from.

Comp AI, which uses AI agents to draft security policies, collect audit evidence, conduct continuous compliance monitoring, and more, raised a $34M Series A (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/comp

Comp AI sets eyes on a continuously agentic future for security and compliance | TechCrunch
Comp AI, a cybersecurity and compliance startup, announced a $34 million Series A round led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures. 

The Guardian reports revenue up 2% YoY to £282M in the year to March, digital reader revenue up 17% to £126M, US revenue up 14% to £64M, and UK revenue down (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/gua…

Guardian grows revenue to record £282m boosted by US operation
Revenue grew in year to March 2026 to a new record for Guardian's news operation.

African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/terr

Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South | TechCrunch
African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 11. Juli 1962 fand der #Atomtest "Pamlico" als Teil der US-Operation Dominic statt. Insgesamt wurden 31 Tests, viele davon mit B-52 Bombern, im #Pazifik mit 38,1 Mt Sprengkraft durchgeführt, darunter neue Waffen und die Überprüfung bestehender Modelle.

Cowboys sign former UFL rushing champ; waive rookie RB https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/07/cowboys-sign-jashaun-corbin-waive-dominic-richardson/91220157007/

Fora, which connects travel agents with travelers and offers agents AI tools, raised a $60M Series D at a $1B valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/ai-powered-travel…

AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60M | TechCrunch
Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion. 

Reuters replaces Getty as the agency partner to sell ITN's 70-year video archive; Reuters will use AI to digitize an additional 10,000 hours of ITN film footage (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Reuters replaces Getty as agency partner for 70-year ITN news archive
News: Reuters has ousted Getty as the agency partner selling access to ITN’s 70-year archive of video footage.

Really enjoyed TONY (Anthony Bourdain movie)! The 1975 setting was evocative for us.
(Local connection, the dad (not shown here) was played by Rich Sommer, who attended Concordia College in Moorhead #Minnesota and also Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis.)

Morgen Konzert bei uns in der Dorfkirch Groß Dölln. Kommt alles, es wird lustig!
#Uckermark #musik #Konzert

Cornelis, spun off from Intel in 2020 to build networking tech that helps AI chips communicate more effectively, raised $205M led by IAG Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/14/ai-infrastr…

AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia's dominance | TechCrunch
The company also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data to arrive.

Nexstar appeals a district court judge's injunction blocking its Tegna acquisition while an antitrust lawsuit proceeds and calls the injunction "overbroad" (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/nexstar-reactions-tegna-merger-i…

Nexstar Rails Against $6.2B Tegna Merger Injunction: Calls Out DirecTV & State AGs “Cynical Attempt To Advance Their Own Commercial & Political Interests”
Months after a federal judge put a freeze on Nexstar & Tegna's $6.2B merger, the local TV giant trashed State AGs & DirecTV in a hardcore court filing

Google plans to launch the $29 Pixel Tag on November 11 with a four-pack priced at $99, matching AirTag 2 pricing, offering UWB, Find Hub support, and more (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/978713/google-pixel-tag-uwb-bluetooth…

The Pixel Tag is Google’s answer to the AirTag
The $29 tracker combines UWB with Bluetooth channel sounding.

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 9. Juli 1962 führte die USA den #Starfish Prime Test durch. Dieser größte #Nukleartest im Weltraum (1,4 Mt) wurde vom Johnston Atoll aus gestartet. Die Explosion ereignete sich in einer Höhe von 400 km über einem Punkt 31 km südwestlich des Atolls.

The rise of the “chat box” implies that the CLI was the only true interface, with GUIs being a 40 year detour till we found our way back to… describing what we want rather than just doing it.
https://www.codevoid.net/ruminations/2026/06/20/cli-og-interface-chatb…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Chaz Jankel:
🎵 Never Stop Believing (Vocal Remix)
#ChazJankel
https://dominicdawson.bandcamp.com/track/never-stop-believing-dominic-dawson-vocal-rub
https://open.spotify.com/track/5rpFi1Zyf6Ue2XTNWUD16k

Dominic Merten bei Kunst in der Kirche singt über alte weiße Männer 🫶#Uckermark

Anonymous Hollywood advice for David Ellison to get his WBD deal done: announce more jobs for starved-for-work LA, fire Bari Weiss, and chat with Kamala Harris (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/paramount-warner-merger-kamala-harris-12370158…

Paramount’s Precipice: How David Ellison Could Salvage $111B WBD Merger (Hint – Call Kamala)
Here's a few H'wood suggestions of what David Ellison could do to get his Paramount-WBD merger back on track ASAP & defang the state AGs' antitrust suit

A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind moved in in 2016, now home to OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/this

This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs | TechCrunch
More than 20 years ago, King's Cross was one of the seediest area's in London. Now it's sprouting something new.

Parts-per-million-accurate determination of the K${\alpha}$ photoionization resonance of Be-like oxygen with resolution of its $^{16}$O-$^{18}$O isotopic shift
Jonas Danisch, Marc Botz, Chintan Shah, Moto Togawa, Joschka Goes, Dominic Hache, Filipe Grilo, Pedro Amaro, Vladimir A. Yerokhin, Steffen K\"uhn, Awad Mohamed, Roberta Totani, Monica de Simone, Stefano Orlando, Thomas Pfeifer, Fabrizio Nicastro, Marcello Coreno, Jos\'e R. Crespo L\'opez-Urrutia

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewGenerationArtists
Emma Rawicz, Jonny Mansfield, Dominic Ingham, Jack Thomas & Will Sach:
🎵 Chorinho pra Hermato
#EmmaRawicz #JonnyMansfield #DominicIngham #JackThomas #WillSach

Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a "step-change" from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/9631…

Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding
Meta’s new Muse Spark 1.1 AI model is available to US developers through the Meta Model API’s public preview.

Google removed a Press Gazette story on "parasite SEO" company Clickout Media from search after a spurious takedown request was filed, the second time this year (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/spurio

Spurious copyright claim sees second Press Gazette story removed from Google search
Claim filed under US law seeks to hide Press Gazette reporting about Clickout Media.

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 25. Juli 1962 explodierte eine Thor-Rakete während der US Operation Dominic I. Der Unfall verteilte waffenfähiges #Plutonium und kontaminierte die Insel schwer. Das Notfallteam war extremer Strahlung ausgesetzt, was zu langfristigen #Krebsleiden führte.

London-based European Technology Network, a TBPN-like show livestreaming 5x a week on YouTube and X, raised a $1.6M seed round from Axel Springer and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/euro

Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone’s angling for a guest spot | TechCrunch
On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (which owns Business Insider and Politico), the popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind. With this fresh capital, the network is announcing its largest expansion yet.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
James Blake, Mount Kimbie & Dominic Maker:
🎵 Somehow She's Still Here
#JamesBlake #MountKimbie #DominicMaker

London-based Inforcer, which helps managed service providers handle their clients' Microsoft 365 accounts, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/info

Inforcer raises $50M to help prepare smaller businesses for a new world of AI and security risks | TechCrunch
London-based Inforcer just closed a $50 million Series C round led by Insight Partners.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: comfortable when shut, 4:3 inner display is great, and impressive battery life, but no telephoto or IP68 and some app errors (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/972387/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-8-review

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 feels like the future
The Z Fold 8 looks unusual at first, with its squat outer screen, but you get used to it fast — and the wide inner display makes it all worthwhile.

A specialist UK tribunal awards BBC correspondent Vincent Kearney £20K in damages after MI5 and police admitted to illegally obtaining Kearney's call records (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/m

MI5 and police illegally grabbed journalist's call records to find sources
Former BBC Northern Ireland journalist paid £20,000 in damages by MI5 and PSNI.

Chris Aronson, ex-president of domestic theatrical distribution at Paramount, sues the company, claiming breach of contract and age discrimination (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/chris-aronson-sues-paramount-age-discrimination-1…

Pink-Slipped Exec Chris Aronson Sues Paramount For Millions Over “Broken Promise”
Chris Aronson is not going quietly into the Paramount night. The ex-distribution exec wants millions for being fired over breach of contract & age discrimination

Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of hacker network community AGI House, to build an inference library that runs on all chips, raised a $15M seed (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/infe

Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers | TechCrunch
AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.  

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Henriëtte Bosmans, Ionel Manciu & Dominic Degavino:
🎵 Danse Orientale
#HenriëtteBosmans #IonelManciu #DominicDegavino

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
D’Influence:
🎵 Good Lover
#DInfluence
https://dominicdawson.bandcamp.com/track/good-lover-dominic-dawson-dub-flex
https://open.spotify.com/track/2y0o7nVW4rXLod7lMM7h8s

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #90TEEN
Dominic Fike:
🎵 Babydoll
#DominicFike
https://stellanren.bandcamp.com/track/babydoll-stellan-ren-redrum-84
https://open.spotify.com/track/7yNf9YjeO5JXUE3JEBgnYc

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmbientFocus
Ekin Fil & Dominic Coppola:
🎵 Promise to Never Be Like Them
#EkinFil #DominicCoppola
https://hyletapes.bandcamp.com/track/promise-to-never-be-like-them
https://open.spotify.com/track/4aMzXjRwP5dVzLw6WBziCN

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewGenerationArtists
Alec Templeton, Oleg Shebeta-Dragan & Dominic Degavino:
🎵 Pocket-Sized Sonata No.1
#AlecTempleton #OlegShebetaDragan #DominicDegavino

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JarvisCockersSomedayService
Dominic Behan:
🎵 The Kerry Boat Song
#DominicBehan

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Ronnie Hudson & Street People:
🎵 West Coast Poplock
#RonnieHudson #StreetPeople
https://dominicdawson.bandcamp.com/track/west-coast-poplock-dominic-dawson-dub-flex
https://open.spotify.com/track/24ddIEVcbAvNskck5oburS

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Ludwig van Beethoven, Oleg Shebeta-Dragan, Leo Popplewell & Dominic Degavino:
🎵 Piano Trio in B flat major, Op. 11 'Gassenhauer'
#LudwigvanBeethoven #OlegShebetaDragan
https://open.spotify.com/track/0cbpQfvC0QOaZZYCFGIlkP

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Alice Mary Smith, Leo Popplewell & Dominic Degavino:
🎵 Melody and Scherzo
#AliceMarySmith #LeoPopplewell #DominicDegavino
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewGenerationArtists
Lyudmyla Shukaylo, Oleg Shebeta-Dragan & Dominic Degavino:
🎵 Romance
#LyudmylaShukaylo #OlegShebetaDragan #DominicDegavino