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Friday, September 12, 2025

The Good Soldier Švejk manuscript

     The Good Soldier Švejk manuscript


       At Radio Prague International Ruth Fraňková and Kateřina Svobodová report that Lost manuscripts of The Good Soldier Švejk found after 90 years in Prague archive.




From latex puppets of Bob Hawke and Robert Holmes à Court to wooden tribal masks and fetish figures from West Africa, a Melbourne auction on Monday will disperse two collections of remarkably diverse cultural artefacts. 

The sale is Gibson’s live and online auction, Interiors | Art & Origins, presenting almost 450 lots drawn from the Bryan Collie Collection and the Hugh Jenkinson Collection. Bryan Collie is a former art gallery owner from Melbourne. Hugh Jenkinson is a Melbourne engineer whose work, mainly with BP Australia, took him to remote tribal locations around the world.


New Study: How Often Do AI Assistants Hallucinate Links? (16 Million URLs Studied)

ahrefsblog: “AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude can hallucinate URLs and direct visitors to non-existent pages on your website. But how often does it happen? To find out, we looked at the http status of 16 million unique URLs cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, and Mistral. 

We found that AI assistants send visitors to 404 pages 2.87x more often than Google Search. ChatGPT is the greatest offender, with 1.01% of clicked URLs and 2.38% of all cited URLs returning a 404 status (compared to baseline 404 rates of 0.15% and 0.84% respectively). Here’s what we found:


Are Businesses Scaling Back Hiring Due to AI?

Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York: “The swift advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked significant concern that this new technology will replace jobs and stifle hiring