What just happened? Non-profit organization Internet Archive was founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996, as a digital library conceived to provide free access to digital knowledge via the internet. Now, ...

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...

Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, stands a gleaming white building, its façade adorned with eight striking gothic columns. But ...

Adrian Ward had been driving confidently around Austin, Texas, for nine years — until last November, when he started getting lost. Ward’s phone had been acting up, and Apple Maps had stopped working.

In 2024, 2.6 billion people – nearly a third of humanity – remained offline, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) reported. The same year, non-profit Freedom House estimated that more than ...

For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart. is editor-at-large ...