Wayback Machine

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…

A user discovered an unusual user agent string 'SleepBot/1.0' from a Google ASN in their reverse proxy logs, leading to a website that appears to be a dormant personal page with a Shoutcast radio stre…

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…