Major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine to fight AI scrapers — and taking three decades of digital history with ...

This is yet another example of the far-reaching nature of the AI-driven component crisis.

The Wayback Machine only took 148,628 snapshots from those same 100 news websites' homepages between May 17 and Oct. 1, 2025.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The internet is ephemeral, with the average life of a web page – before it's changed or deleted – about 100 days. And so, the ...

More companies are opting not to archive their sites ...

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet ...

Over 241 news sites are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to prevent AI companies from using archived content for training.

The Wayback Machine, a tool from the Internet Archive that allows users to visit archived versions of websites, is back online in read-only form after a hack last week. IA founder Brewster Kahle ...

A security breach at the Internet Archive's "WayBack Machine" has resulted in the theft of the authentication database containing data on 31 million people. The "WayBack Machine" has been an ...

The Internet Archive is a Californian non-profit whose ambitious goal is to create a digital library of “all knowledge.” It is today almost synonymous with its best-known project, the Wayback Machine.