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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 and collaborate. But today, the free and open web is shrinking.

The Conversation

The Wayback Machine recently captured its trillionth web page – here are 5 surprising facts about the 'living history of the internet'

You might be surprised at what the Internet Archive, the non-profit keeper of the Wayback Machine, gets up to.

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TIL the Wayback Machine saves 150,000 gigabytes of webpages every day and lives in a church in San Francisco

Currently, one copy of the Internet Archive is 175 petabytes of web history and counting.

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Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard

Microsoft is working with the Internet Archive's Jason Scott.

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Gigantic VHS videotape hoard of thousands of videos stored in McDonald's boxes being given away for free — Internet Archive looks set to claim the tapes of U.S. news output spanning 2004-09

If you would like to rehome thousands of old VHS videotapes, there’s an incredible hoard being given away for free on Reddit.

Tom’s Hardware

Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post

Two posts explaining the campaign, both from earlier this year, were deleted after redditors took notice.

PC Gamer

'The world became stupider' when Internet Archive's Open Library was hit by a lawsuit: 'We survived, but it wiped out the library'

The Internet Archive has archived one trillion webpages since its inception.

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Woman feared people would rewrite history, so she recorded TV nonstop for 30 years. Now archivists realize she saved something priceless

TV networks were erasing history, so she saved it herself.

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Internet Archive reaches new 1-trillion page landmark almost 30 years after it started backing up the WWW - and more than 100,000TB of files have been safeguarded since

Almost three decades since it started backing up the web, the Internet Archive now holds 1 trillion archived pages and over 100,000TB of data.

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Internet Archive settles two-year lawsuit with record labels over music preservation program

A settlement has been reached in a lengthy copyright lawsuit over early 20th century records.

PC Gamer

Zoomable magazine archive lets you plunge eyeball-first into personal computing's first baby steps through the 70s and beyond

Byte back.

PC Gamer

The internet is about to get a little worse as Reddit moves to block the Internet Archive so AI companies can't scrape its content

Google and OpenAI can scrape Reddit's content, but they paid for it.

PC Gamer

Data hoarders race to preserve data from rapidly disappearing U.S. federal websites

Data hoarders are working overtime to save federal websites that are in danger of being wiped.

Tom’s Hardware

The rush to preserve data Trump deleted

The race is on to save public information about health and science before Trump makes it disappear

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Lessons in cybersecurity from the Internet Archive Breaches

Pinpointing the blast radius post-cyberattack is tougher than ever. What we need is attribute-based access.

PC Gamer

Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament are now free on the Internet Archive, and Epic says that's A-okay

Finally, a win for game preservation.

Reason

Courts Are Coming for Digital Libraries

A federal court recently said the Internet Archive is not protected by fair use doctrine.

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The Internet Archive hit with a new level of cyberattack

The Internet Archive failed to rotate API keys, which meant attackers still had some level of access.

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Internet Archive is back up in a provisional "read-only" state since cyberattack

Internet Archive works its way back online following sustained attacks and a major September security breach.

Tom’s Guide

31 million users impacted by Internet Archive data breach — what we know

A threat actor compromised 'The Wayback Machine' and millions of users information has been stolen.

International Business Times

Internet Archive Reels From 'Catastrophic' Cyberattack, Data Breach

The Internet Archive, an online repository of web pages, was offline Thursday after its founder confirmed a major cyberattack that exposed the data of millions of users and left the site defaced.

Tom’s Hardware

Internet Archive hacked and 31 million user accounts leaked — hacking group 'SN_Blackmeta' claims responsibility

Hacking group 'SN_Blackmeta' hacked The Internet Archive and leaked 31 Million user account data which includes emails and hashed passwords in an SQL file and defaced the website with a pop-up message.

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Change your passwords: Attackers claim a 'catastrophic security breach' of the Internet Archive, with 31 million emails and hashed passwords captured

"See 31 million of you on HIBP!"

TechRadar

Internet Archive hacked, millions of records stolen following DDoS attack

One of the internet's best resources has been hacked, with 31 million Internet Archive users reportedly affected.

Evening Standard

Internet Archive hack exposes data of 31 million users

One of the web's most important sites has suffered a data breach and series of DDoS attacks

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