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 ...
ZDNet

Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back up after data breach - with a catch

The Internet Archive is slowly starting to recover from a recent DDoS attack that clobbered the main site and its subsidiary sites. Early Monday, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle posted on X ...
Bleeping Computer

Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens. Since last night, ...
Jurist

US federal appeals court confirms Internet Archive infringes US publisher copyright protections

A US federal appeals court on Wednesday held the Internet Archive’s Free Digital Library infringes upon publishers’ copyright protections. The Copyright Act sets ...
NPR

As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them

SAN FRANCISCO — If you've ever clicked on a hyperlink that's taken you to something called the Wayback Machine to view an old web page, you've been introduced to the Internet Archive. The nonprofit, ...