Tootfinder

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.

The Telegraph, The Sun, The New York Post, and others published a hoax story claiming Thai police dressed in drag to arrest a drug dealer, based on an AI image (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/thai-police-in-drag/

Telegraph, Sun and Mirror hoaxed by AI picture of Thai police in drag
Story about Thai police in drag arresting a drug dealer appears to be an AI-generated fake.

Can intriguing Cowboys UDFA back jump to front of line thanks to fit? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/05/26/dominic-richardson-cowboys-scouting-report-udfa-2026/90256117007/…

Corgi, which uses AI to provide insurance for startups, raised a $106M Series B1 at a $2.6B valuation, up from $1.3B on May 6, for a total funding of $378M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/corg…

Corgi announces $106M raise at $2.6B valuation — double what it was worth 3 weeks ago | TechCrunch
While startups raising back-to-back rounds at steep step-ups have become almost routine, a company whose valuation doubles in three weeks is unusual enough to raise questions, particularly given the investor set in both rounds is the same.

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.

“Pirate Ships”
Judy Collins
Pulling together a nautical memorial @… radio episode for the week of my father’s funeral
He was career Navy, licensed for “Any Craft, Any Ocean”
⛵️ 🛳️
Loved Judy Collins and folk music that didn’t get too political
Not sure what he thought of romanticizing pirates 🏴‍☠️
Dominic Cortese

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Roxy Music:
🎵 The Main Thing
#RoxyMusic
https://dominicdawson.bandcamp.com/track/the-main-thing-dominic-dawson-dub-flex
https://open.spotify.com/track/0jVedBb3lT4SYV77zrDdeQ

A look at Blooloop, a B2B publisher that has 11 staffers and covers the tourist industry; Muck Rack: it's the UK's ninth most-cited outlet in AI answers (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/b2b/b2b-ai-llms-blooloop-most-cit…

How niche UK-based B2B brand became one of most cited in world by LLMs
A B2B brand that was previously fairly unknown outside its niche has become one of the most cited sources worldwide on AI answer engines.

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…

Ich persönlich glaube ja eher an Viren in der Luft und weniger an Marienerscheinungen. Finde aber beides ok, solange andere dabei nicht zu Schaden kommen.
Schöne #Doku von Kira Gantner und Tobias Henkenhaf:
https://…

Holy Mary · Wer glaubt an Marienerscheinungen? - hier anschauen
Marienerscheinungen sind für die einen ein Hoffnungszeichen, für die anderen Aberglaube. Die Doku beleuchtet das Phänomen und begleitet den gläubigen Familienvater Dominic und seine Töchter auf einen Pilger-Roadtrip nach Lourdes in Frankreich. Dominic glaubt an die Erscheinungen der Gottesmutter in Lourdes. Seine Töchter stehen irgendwo dazwischen: Sie sind offen für das, was sie in Lourdes erleben werden, aber manchmal auch peinlich berührt, wenn ihr Papa zu emotional wird. Während …

Fresha, a London-based beauty and wellness booking marketplace, raised $80M from KKR's growth equity arm at a $1B valuation, bringing its total raised to $285M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/booki…

Beauty booking startup Fresha hits $1B valuation with KKR backing | TechCrunch
Beauty and wellness booking marketplace Fresha says it has raised $80 million investment from KKR’s Next Generation Technology Growth fund, KKR's growth equity arm.

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.

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 12. Juni 1962 fand der #Atomtest "Harlem" 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.

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.  

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Alice Mary Smith, Leo Popplewell & Dominic Degavino:
🎵 Melody and Scherzo
#AliceMarySmith #LeoPopplewell #DominicDegavino
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DMGT renames its consumer news division to Daily Mail, promotes Vere Harmsworth to executive chairman of Daily Mail, and transfers Metro to Harmsworth Media (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me

DMG Media becomes Daily Mail with Vere Harmsworth as exec chairman
Organisational shake-up sees Metro moved into Harmsworth Media.

Nectar Social, which offers an agentic OS for marketers, raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, with GV and True Ventures among investors (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/16/marketing…

Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo | TechCrunch
AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, which was created alongside Anthropic.

Heute vor 64 Jahren: Am 10. Juni 1962 fand der #Atomtest "Yeso" 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.

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. 

Around 31 UK websites adopt "Search-Only Contracts" setting payment rates, typically £500/article, for unauthorized AI scraping, paving the way for legal claims (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/publis

Publishers to bill AI firms for unwanted scraping - and take them to court if they don't pay
Search-only contracts added to website terms open up new front in war with AI companies.

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

Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help businesses interview, onboard, and manage frontline workers, raised a $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/14/orbi…

Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers | TechCrunch
Orbio announces $21 Million Series A in round led by Dawn Capital.

An interview with The Times publisher Christopher Longcroft on digital revenue overtaking print soon, traffic growth despite Google changes, AI tools, and more (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/times-digita…

Times close to 'cresting the hill' as digital revenue set to overtake print
Times EVP Chris Longcroft says title has "crested the hill" and digital revenue set to overtake print.

Swedish autonomous truck company Einride will debut on the Nasdaq today after completing a SPAC merger at a pre-money valuation of $1.35B (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/autonom…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Isaiah Rashad feat. Dominic Fike:
🎵 CAMERAS
#IsaiahRashad #DominicFike
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aKPbNFx51OwUZBbZ7pqlj

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.

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

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Robert Schumann, Oleg Shebeta-Dragan & Dominic Degavino:
🎵 Fantasy Pieces, Op.73
#RobertSchumann #OlegShebetaDragan #DominicDegavino

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

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.

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Charles Villiers Stanford, Oleg Shebeta-Dragan & Dominic Degavino:
🎵 3 Intermezzi, Op.13
#CharlesVilliersStanford #OlegShebetaDragan #DominicDegavino

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Charles Villiers Stanford, Oleg Shebeta-Dragan & Dominic Degavino:
🎵 3 Intermezzi, Op 13
#CharlesVilliersStanford #OlegShebetaDragan #DominicDegavino

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #MusicMap
Gustav Holst, Dominic Martens, National Youth Orchestra & Edward Gardner:
🎵 The Planets (Venus, the Bringer of Peace)
#GustavHolst #DominicMartens #NationalYouthOrchestra #EdwardGardner
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewGenerationArtists
Emma Rawicz, Jonny Mansfield, Dominic Ingham, Jack Thomas & Will Sach:
🎵 Chorinho pra Hermato
#EmmaRawicz #JonnyMansfield #DominicIngham #JackThomas #WillSach