The Wayback Machine faces another threat from AI — ridiculously expensive hard drive prices

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

Why Major News Sites Are Blocking The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine

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

Wayback Machine archiving snapshots plummet

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

Internet Archive rolls out fact-checking on archived webpages

Even the Wayback Machine is getting into fact-checking now. In a blog post on its website, the Internet Archive announced it was rolling out fact-checking annotations on certain webpages archives by ...
Bustle

'The Way Back' Eerily Parallels Star Ben Affleck's Life

In the new sports drama The Way Back, Ben Affleck stars as a high school basketball coach who's wrestling with some demons. A star player in high school, Jack Cunningham turned down a scholarship to ...
PC Magazine

Going Way Back With the Internet Archive on Its 25th Anniversary

My title is Senior Features Writer, which is a license to write about absolutely anything if I can connect it to technology (I can). I’ve been at PCMag since 2011 and have covered the surveillance ...