Chuck Tingle hosted a comedic event at the Internet Archive in San Francisco, featuring interactive games and a discussion of generative AI, where he affirmed his preference for human-made art. The ev…
Three years after ChatGPT, 35% of new websites are AI-generated, and researchers from Stanford, Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive found after 33 months of measurement that AI content i…
A study found that by mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published websites were AI-generated or AI-assisted, up from zero before ChatGPT's launch in late 2022. The research indicates that increases in AI…
A documentary short titled 'Code for the People,' directed by Bao Nguyen, explores the past, present, and contested future of the open web, highlighting the threat of closed AI and walled gardens. The…
Sudipta Das, a Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor at the Internet Archive, built a client-side AI extension for the Wayback Machine. The Chrome extension uses Gemini Nano to summarize archived pag…
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is considering standards changes that would allow websites to block automated access, threatening the open web. Proposals from the AI Preferences and Web Bot…
A video of the microtonal math rock band Angine de Poitrine, wearing polka dot costumes and papier-mâché masks, garnered over 12 million views, with a top comment suggesting AI cannot match human weir…
According to a Nieman Lab report, major news publishers like *The New York Times* and *The Guardian* have begun blocking the Internet Archive over fears that AI companies might scrape its repositories…
The Library of Leng, created by software engineer Gregor Stocks, is a searchable database that has preserved over 175,000 articles about *Magic: The Gathering* from the past 30 years. It archives cont…
The Gentoo Forums announced a planned upgrade to Discourse, replacing the outdated phpBB software. However, the post was revealed to be an April Fool's joke, as the described AI-powered feature to scr…
This article provides a factual summary of a table listing various Windows operating system ISO files, from Windows 1.0 to Windows 11. It details each version's architecture, file size, hosting source…
The author designed a poster based on John F. Earhart's 1892 treatise *The Color Printer* before creating the accompanying website, reversing their typical workflow. They recreated the treatise's colo…
The article describes the creation of the first digital edition of Andrea Palladio's 1570 architectural treatise, *The Four Books of Architecture*, which is considered one of the most influential arch…