A new essay from The Walrus warns that the internet's collective memory is disappearing as AI systems degrade the web's knowledge infrastructure. The piece highlights how AI-driven search results, lin…
AI assistant share links from platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, Perplexity, Meta AI, Kimi, and DeepSeek pose a security risk because they are unauthenticated, permanent, crawlable HTT…
A developer discovered that some top-level domains (TLDs) can host websites by adding DNS records directly to the TLD zone, as demonstrated by the now-defunct web server at .ai and the currently activ…
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…
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…