Ir.lv: From one microphone to Europe: LNSO’s 100-year story The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra is marking its centenary. Its predecessor, the Riga Radiophone Orchestra, began daily broadcasts on September 5, 1926 with just 14 musicians, exactly as many as its single microphone could pick up. The piece also traces the station’s own origins: parliament allocated 140,000 lats for […]
links: 31.07.2026
PBS News: Copenhagen’s famed Noma restaurant prepares to reopen without chef Redzepi at helm PBS reports that Copenhagen’s famed Noma reopens on August 5 without René Redzepi, who stepped away in March after former employees’ allegations of abuse and assault. Its three Michelin stars are gone as well. The kitchen is now led by Pablo Soto, the menu […]
links: 28.07.2026
TechCrunch: Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive TechCrunch writes that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is warning businesses not to entrust all their AI work to a single model provider. He advises companies to keep their data and usage records so they could one day train a model of their own, and […]
links: 28.06.2026
NPR: What you ate in 1776 depended on who you were NPR, marking the 250th anniversary of the United States, describes how in 1776 food was a marker of social standing: wealthy upper-class families and the country’s founders emulated European — especially French and English — cuisine and even imported food from there, while the table of the […]
links: 27.06.2026
Le Monde: In the age of AI, Chinese universities overhaul their curricula Le Monde describes how Chinese universities are overhauling their degree programmes to align with artificial intelligence, which has been made the top priority of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) — the government wants to embed the technology in as many sectors of the real economy as […]
links: 15.06.2026
TechCrunch: The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg Last month the tech sector cut more jobs than in any month in two years — nearly 40,000 — and for the third month running AI was the most-cited reason. Yet a growing chorus argues AI is merely a convenient excuse, and the real cause is pandemic-era overhiring […]
links 1: 05.02.2024
Politico: Hungary’s ruling party balks at Swedish NATO vote Buenos Aires Times: Fire destroys more than 3,000 hectares of native forest in Patagonia DW News: Germany’s trade unions: What’s behind the wave of strikes? Al Jazeera: Fire Beneath Her: Battling wildfires in Indonesian Borneo CBC: In the line of fire: In Gaza, anyone can wind up a ‘human […]