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Angel or McGuffin? : Jacob Coxon’s very public resignation from Anthropic has once again raised the spectre of the AI apocalypse. But which AI apocalypse? Paul Demarty weighs up the risks to humanity

Festival El Mundo brings 13 nations together through food in Bogotá : Bogotá is preparing to turn gastronomy into a meeting point for cultures with the first edition of the Festival Gastronómico y Cultural El Mundo en el Corazón de Bogotá, taking place September 19 and 20 at Parque El Country. Admission is free to the two-day festival, which brings together 13 participating nations and the UN Mission in Colombia in a celebration of food, culture and international exchange. The festival is a social project sponsored by ACONDIP, the Association of Diplomatic Spouses Accredited in Colombia, and forms part of the District’s Sabor Bogotá 2026 agenda. The initiative seeks to connect Bogotá’s international diplomatic community with residents, visitors, local entrepreneurs and cultural organizations through one of the city’s most universal forms of cultural expression: food. For Angela Garzón of the Instituto Distrital de Turismo (IDT), the festival also speaks to the relation...

Radio stations warned over rush to AI software : Radio stations are being warned not to mistake working AI generated software for a secure and sustainable broadcast system. The warning comes in a blog written by Darren Shortt from The Media Site, looking at the increasing use of AI tools to create playout and other broadcast software. Darren says more stations are experimenting with software created using services including ChatGPT and Claude, but argues that getting something to work is only one part of running technology relied upon around the clock. “A piece of software that works and a sustainable, secure broadcast product are two very different things,” he writes. The blog highlights questions around who maintains the software, fixes problems, monitors security and ensures it works correctly alongside other systems. Darren describes an example involving an overseas customer which installed its own AI written playout system on a hosted server. According to the blo...

BBC: retract your false report on China and the Himalayan floods : The US peace organisation CODEPINK, as part of its China Is Not Our Enemy campaign, has launched a petition calling on the BBC to retract its false report claiming that China was censoring footage of the catastrophic floods that struck Nepal and the Tibetan Plateau in late August. As we noted at the time, the …

Geheimzinnigheid rond programma’s voor het Nederlandse leger : In de maand april 1964 stonden er in tal van kranten hele korte berichtjes waarin melding werd gemaakt van het gegeven dat er een samenwerking was tussen onderdelen van het Nederlandse leger en Radio Veronica, waarbij er werd vermeld dat het ging om illegale activiteiten. In ‘de Telegraaf’ van 15 april kreeg de lezer uitgebreidere informatie. Het bleek dat in de studio van Radio Veronica in Hilversum sinds enige tijd muziekprogramma’s werden gemaakt voor het leger, programma’s die werden gepresenteerd door onder meer Joost den Draaijer en Tineke. Ondanks dat men dus berichtte dat de programma’s in alle voorzichtigheid en geheimzinnigheid waren gemaakt, werd in het artikel door een woordvoerder van de afdeling Welzijn in Den Haag bevestigd dat er wel degelijk sprake was van een vorm van samenwerking tussen het leger en Radio Veronica. “Wij maken bij Veronica ...

Offshore and More : Donderdagavond 17 september van 20:00-22:00 kun je op 192 Radio luisteren naar een programma met singles die Frank van Heerde vaak na lang zoeken vond in diverse steden, in winkels, op markten en op platenbeurzen. Frank vertelt o.a. uitgebreid over zijn trips naar London en de platenzaken die hij daar bezocht. De productie en presentatie van dit programma wordt verzorgd door Frank van Heerde en de techniek door Frank van Agtmaal. Dit programma is onderdeel van de wekelijkse reeks Offshore and More op 192 Radio.

Ya Disponible ‘Music on Shortwave’ A26-V5.0 : Ya esta disponible una nueva actualización de esta publicación de Alan Roe donde se recopilan todos los programas dedicados a la musica en la Onda Corta.

Ya disponible Shortwave Bulletin nº2114 : Ya disponible la publicación Shortwave Bulletin , editado por Thomas Nilsson.

UK's Ofcom to offer new opportunities for "small-scale" DAB multiplexes : In February 2026, Ofcom published its Licensing Priorities for Broadcast Radio Consultation, setting out the proposed strategic approach to broadcast radio licensing in the UK. Having considered the stakeholder responses, the regulator says that it will focus on licence priorities in the short-to-medium term to include: "a) new opportunities for SSDAB multiplexes in unserved areas; b) applications from existing SSDAB multiplex licensees to improve or extend the coverage of their multiplex; c) a more flexible approach, where appropriate, in our application of the ‘40% ceiling’ rule regarding SSDAB."