From live music to audiobooks, podcasts, and even radio shows, this on-demand audio treasure trove is one of the internet's best-kept secrets.

News publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving their stories due to concerns tech companies could scrape ...

McClatchy, Advance Local, Tribune Publishing and other major newspaper chains are restricting the nonprofit's archiving bots.

It’s official: The robots are taking over. Taking over the internet, that is. Conspiracy theorists have long discussed the dead internet theory, which reasons that online spaces, once entirely ...

“In an age when AI is generating what the Australian patent office calls “slopplications,” and they’ve seen a 174% spike in self-filed applications, your role as curator and quality guardian has never ...

Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information and collaborate. But today, the free and open web is shrinking. Major ...

As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback ...

A Spotify music app sign is depicted in the city center in Warsaw, Poland, on December 5, 2025. (Photo by Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Spotify was recently hacked by the pirate activist ...

Anna’s Archive claims it has scraped almost all of Spotify. The archive includes metadata for 256 million tracks and audio for 86 million songs. The total size of the archive is nearly 300TB, being ...

The team behind Blue Archive has scrapped a planned marketing campaign after players kicked up a fuss. Originally meant to include four streamers, Gigguk (Garnt Maneetapho), CDawg (Connor Colquhoun), ...

In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org, celebrated a milestone: one trillion web pages archived, for posterity. Founded in ...