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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Alton Ellis:
🎵 Christmas Coming (Dmonick Dawson Version)
#AltonEllis
https://dominicdawson.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-coming-dominic-dawson-re-versions

Insurance brokerage Harper, which uses AI to automate submission routing and follow-up, raised $46.8M in combined Series A and seed led by Emergence Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/ai-insurance-brokerag…

Y Combinator grad and AI insurance brokerage Harper raises $47M | TechCrunch
Harper is an AI-native insurance brokerage that just raised a $45 million combined Series A and seed, after a member of YC's Winter 2025 cohort.

UK's College of Policing issues new communications standards, including encouraging officers to engage with media, after 15 years of restrictive press relations (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/police-media-guidelines-updated/

Post Leveson chill in police-press relations thaws after 15 years with new rulebook
Police media guidelines updated for forces in England and Wales. Officers encouraged to speak to journalists.

The UK's Future acquires social-first publisher Sheerluxe and Blush Talent MGMT for an initial £39.9M, rising by an additional £40M based on performance (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/future-plc-buys-beauty-and…

Future plc buys beauty and fashion brand Sheerluxe for £40m
Magazine giant Future is attempting to grow its share of creator-led digital marketing spend by acquiring social-first publisher Sheerluxe.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Melba Moore:
🎵 Promised Land
#MelbaMoore
https://dominicdawson.bandcamp.com/track/promised-land-dominic-dawson-dub-flex
https://open.spotify.com/track/4zJwHJjXJVummrqoL5yM9f

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- DoomCannon’s Flowers
Soweto’s guest from Monday to Thursday this week for Flowers is South London pianist, producer and multi-instrumentalist DoomCannon, also known as Dominic Canning.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n8gz

Only 11 out of 131 ABC-audited UK magazines grew their actively purchased print sales in 2025, including Harper's Bazaar, The Spectator, and The Week Junior (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audie

Just 11 out of 131 ABC-audited magazines grew sales in 2025
Biggest selling magazines in the UK in 2025. Full breakdown of the latest print circulation figures from ABC.

Samsung releases an ad for the Galaxy S26 series that briefly shows a "Zero-peeking privacy" toggle to black out on-screen content for onlookers at an angle (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/879652/samsung-ga…

Samsung ad confirms rumors of a useful S26 ‘privacy display’
Leaker Ice Universe has shared a video of Samsung’s privacy display in action, while the company teases the tech in a new advert.

Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years (Dominic Casciani/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5lxg2l0lqo
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p86#a251202p86

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

Sipri-Bericht über den Rüstungsboom
Neues Wettrüsten, neue Gefahren. Kommentar von Dominic Johnson.
https://taz.de/Sipri-Bericht-ueber-den-Ruestungsboom/!6130782/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Alton Ellis:
🎵 Christmas Coming
#AltonEllis
#Christmas)

Netflix sends ByteDance a C&D letter over Seedance 2.0, joining WBD, Paramount, and Disney, saying "forensic evidence" shows "unauthorized derivative works" (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/seedance-netflix-ce…

Get Your AI Off Our ‘Stranger Things’ & ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ Netflix Tells ByteDance In Latest Hollywood Cease & Desist Letter
In a cease & desist letter over Seedance 2.0, Netflix want generated AI videos of Stranger Things, KPop Demon Hunters, Squid Game and Bridgerton shut down now

Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real-time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/runw

Runware raises $50M Series A to help make image, video generation easier for developers | TechCrunch
Runware lets developers integrate realtime image generation in their apps, with an affordable pricing model.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
Dominic J. Marshall:
🎵 I Will Purify
#DominicJMarshall

Future launches Future Optic, a commercial Generative Engine Optimization, or GEO, service that aims to boost brand visibility on AI platforms like ChatGPT (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/fu…

Future leverages high visibility on ChatGPT by offering GEO as a service
Future has launched a new division offering GEO as a service to brands.

PE firm Advent, FedEx, A&R, and PPF agree to acquire Polish automated parcel delivery company InPost for €7.8B; the company has 61K automated parcel lockers (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Vegas Nation Gameday Week 17 | Raiders, Giants Battling For Top Draft Pick https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/vegas-nation-gameday-week-17-raiders-giants-battling-for-top-draft-pick-3600508/

Goalhanger now has 250K paying subscribers across podcasts like The Rest Is History, who pay an average of £60/year, or an annual subscriber income of ~£15M (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/goalhanger-subscribers/

Goalhanger exceeds 250,000 paying subscribers
Goalhanger subscribers total now exceeds 250,000 for shows including The Rest Is History and The Rest Is Politics.

Tritium accumulation and ozone decontamination of tungsten and beryllium
Dominic Batzler, Robin Gr\"o{\ss}le, Philipp Haag, Elizabeth Paine, Marco R\"ollig, Marie-Christine Sch\"afer, Marius Schaufelberger, Kerstin Trost
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24256

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Dominic Miller:
🎵 Ténèbres
#DominicMiller
https://open.spotify.com/track/7cWCC1aBeksxFTrxykKckA

Intrinsic atomic calibration of oscillating magnetic fields in ULF and VLF bands
Zak Johnston, Paul F. Griffin, Erling Riis, Dominic Hunter, Marcin Mrozowski, Stuart J. Ingleby
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02210

Trump Mobile execs showcase the T1 Phone's new design and specs, and say the phones go through "final assembly" in Miami and full assembly in the US is a "goal" (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/875190/tr

This is the Trump Phone
I spoke to Trump Mobile executives Don Hendrickson and Eric Thomas for an exclusive first look at what they say is the T1 Phone.

German car parts supplier Bosch plans to invest €2.5B in AI by the end of 2027 and unveils AI-based driver-assist systems with features like automatic parking (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai…

In written evidence to the Prince Harry privacy trial, ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre says allegations of phone hacking are "grave and sometimes preposterous" (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/paul-d

Paul Dacre says hacking and tapping claims 'grave, preposterous, deeply upsetting'
Ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has described the allegations of phone hacking against his former team as “grave and sometimes preposterous”.

OnePlus launches US preorders for the $899.99 OnePlus 15 after receiving FCC clearance, which had been delayed due to the US government shutdown (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/838017/oneplus-15-preorders-us

OnePlus 15 launches US preorders after delayed FCC clearance
With a 7,300mAh battery, the OnePlus 15 is one of the longest lasting smartphones on the market right now.

Plaud launches the $179 Plaud NotePin S AI recorder, similar to the $159 NotePin but with a button, alongside a new desktop app for recording meeting audio (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/851393/plaud-notepin-s-desktop-app-ces

Plaud updates the NotePin with a button
The new Plaud NotePin S is much like the original, but with a new button and more included accessories.

A look at Hamlet, a startup that uses AI to process local government meeting videos and which plans to provide the tool to local journalists for free (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/new-st…

New streaming channel launches to give viewers a peek into city council meetings | TechCrunch
Hamlet TV is a way to help keep citizens informed of what's happening inside local governments.

An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data: in 2025 so far, 80 tech startups reached $1B valuations, many of them focused on AI with exceptions like Kalshi (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/at-least-36-new-tech-…

At least 80 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far | TechCrunch
Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Alton Ellis:
🎵 Christmas Coming
#AltonEllis
#Christmas)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Hether & Dominic Fike:
🎵 Images of Love
#Hether #DominicFike
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Vj11Vm95STtBEL7hSB5Sh

The UK's Observer says editor Lucy Rock stepped down in September after being announced as the title's first female print editor in December 2024 (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk…

Observer confirms departure of editor Lucy Rock
The Observer has confirmed the departure of Lucy Rock who was the first female editor in the title’s 234-year history.

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says the company's flagship Phone 4 won't launch in 2026: "We're not just going to churn out a new flagship every year for the sake of it" (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/869975/nothing-phon…

There won’t be a Nothing Phone 4 this year
CEO Carl Pei says there’s no new flaghip on the way, but teased improvements for the 4A series instead.

The White House's "media bias" page has "Media Offender of the Week" and "Hall of Shame" sections, with CBS News making the inaugural Media Offenders list (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/trump-media-offender…

Trump Unveils “Media Offender Of the Week” + “Hall Of Shame” On White House Website: David Ellison-Owned & Bari Weiss-Run CBS News Makes The List
Targeting the so-called "enemy of the people," the Trump White House has gone after media outlets it claims put out "false and misleading stories"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Fela Kuti:
🎵 Roforofo Fight (Dominic Dawson Mix)
#FelaKuti
https://dominicdawson.bandcamp.com/track/roforofo-fight-part-1-dominic-dawson-re-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/6YRFw7diXDk3zYako8MxhT

Reach's Manchester Evening News launches a metered paywall and a £4.99/month digital subscription as Reach starts rolling out paywalls across its titles (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/manchester-evening-news-launc…

Manchester Evening News launches paywall
Title begins charging online for premium content.

The Observer launches its first paywall, with digital subscriptions priced at £16 per month, and updates its masthead to a logo that echoes its earlier branding (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/observe…

Observer launches first paywall and ditches Guardian-era masthead
Digital subscriptions to The Observer are priced at £16 per month.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewGenerationArtists
Myroslav Skoryk, Oleg Shebeta-Dragan & Dominic Degavino:
🎵 Carpathian Rhapsody
#MyroslavSkoryk #OlegShebetaDragan #DominicDegavino

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewGenerationArtists
Myroslav Skoryk, Oleg Shebeta-Dragan & Dominic Degavino:
🎵 Carpathian Rhapsody
#MyroslavSkoryk #OlegShebetaDragan #DominicDegavino

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewGenerationArtists
Lyudmyla Shukaylo, Oleg Shebeta-Dragan & Dominic Degavino:
🎵 Romance
#LyudmylaShukaylo #OlegShebetaDragan #DominicDegavino