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Why news publishers are blocking AI from accessing internet archives

AI companies using archived news content could be a major violation of copyright laws, especially in the midst of active lawsuits against companies such as OpenAI and Perplexity.

Euronews

Relive the PC magazine cover disk era with 758-strong archive.org CD-ROM collection — 1.2TB treasure trove also includes Floppy Disks from as early as 1993

If you miss the old cover-mounted demo disks of yore, take a look at the Internet Archive's extensive collections.

Tom’s Hardware

If you want to remember feeling hopeful for the future, you can read over 200 issues of the legendary Byte magazine for free on the Internet Archive

Take me back.

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From Nirvana to Tracy Chapman: A fan's recordings of over 10,000 concerts are being preserved online

A music fan from Chicago taped thousands of concerts over four decades. These recordings are now being uploaded to an online archive that can be freely accessed.

Euronews

'Preserving the web is not the problem. Losing it is,' claims the director of the Internet Archive

"The Wayback Machine is built for human readers."

PC Gamer

No, a Resident Evil 5 remake isn't likely to show up in tomorrow's PlayStation State of Play — that ESRB rating has been there for at least a year

Despite recent rumors, a Resident Evil 5 remake reveal isn't likely tomorrow.

TechRadar

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.

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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.

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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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.

TechRadar

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

33 Pics Showing How Dangerous Playgrounds Were In The Past

How much different is the world we live in today?

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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.

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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.

Reason

Courts Are Coming for Digital Libraries

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

TechRadar

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.

Tom’s Hardware

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.

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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.

PC Gamer

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!"

Tom’s Guide

Wayback Machine links are now are part of Google Search — here's what's new

Google and the Internet Archive have teamed up to provide WayBack Machine links for older versions of websites.

PC Gamer

The Internet Archive has lost the appeal for its landmark copyright case, agreeing to pay an undisclosed amount to publishers

This has been four years in the making.

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Internet Archive preserves and releases 1980s PC radio show that interviewed legends including Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Timothy Leary, and Jack Tramiel

The Famous Computer Cafe aired in California in the early 1980s.

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