News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?

When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information ...

Publishers are blocking the Internet Archive for fear AI scrapers can use it as a workaround

The Internet Archive has often been a valuable resource for journalists, from it's finding records of deleted tweets or ...
OPB

Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever

The Internet Archive office is housed in a former Christian Science church in San Francisco. Six weeks into the administration, the Internet Archive said it had cataloged some 73,000 web pages that ...
KQED

What Happens if the Internet Archive Goes Dark?

For decades, the Internet Archive has preserved our digital history. Lately, journalists and ordinary citizens have been turning to it more than ever, as the Trump administration undertakes an ...
9to5Mac

Internet Archive data breach

The security breach was first reported by Bleeping Computer. Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user ...

Internet Archive unveils tool to save the web from dead links

Link Fixer is a WordPress plugin designed to stop "link rot" and keep old web pages alive even after they've gone inaccessible.