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Service Restored from Overnight Power Outage

17 Aug 2026

Yesterday, the Internet Archive experienced a power outage that took some of our services offline and degraded others. The power outage at one of our datacenters was caused by damage […]

Registration is Now Open For Internet Archive’s Annual Celebration

17 Aug 2026

Democracy’s Library: Tools for ParticipationWednesday, October 21, 2026Internet Archive, San FranciscoREGISTER: In person | Virtual Democracy invites participation; democracies require it. At the

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

16 Aug 2026

Long before the current kerfuffle about LLMs, Generative AI Artwork, and asking your tax preparation chatbot for a cookie recipe, the concept of artificial intelligence and synthetic life was a […]

Vanishing Culture Episode #6: What We’ve Learned with Vida Vojić & Alice Bridgwood

5 Aug 2026

What does it mean to preserve culture in an age of disappearing websites, platform-controlled media, and fragile digital memories? In the final episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing

Internet Archive to New York: Don’t Kill the Good Bots in the Fight Against Bad Bots

4 Aug 2026

We’re joining with EFF and other civil society groups asking the Governor of New York to veto the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. Here’s why. News publishers have a real problem: […]

The Case for Crowdfunding at Scale: How Donors are Fundraising With Us and Creating a Path to Lasting Preservation

30 Jul 2026

Preserving humanity’s memory isn’t cheap. Servers need power, storage needs upgrading, and physical collections need scanning teams working around the clock. Leading a philanthropy department and

Vanishing Culture Episode #5: A Language Worth Saving with Peter Scholing

29 Jul 2026

Languages can vanish just as easily as books, websites, or archives—and when they do, entire ways of understanding the world can disappear with them. In the fifth episode of our […]

Author Simone O. Elias Bypasses Traditional Publishing with Open Access Release

27 Jul 2026

Sixteen-year-old Simone O. Elias has a lot to say about her generation and the way it is perceived by society. Rather than wait for a traditional publisher, the Berkeley, California, […]

Bringing Forgotten Music Back to Life with Optical Music Recognition

22 Jul 2026

Just as printed letters can be scanned and converted into digital text, emerging technology can transform sheet music into sound. A new effort is underway to use optical music recognition […]

Vanishing Culture Episode #4: Keeping African Folktales Alive with Helen Nde & Laura Gibbs