A study of digital decay, the phenomenon of websites slowly vanishing from the web, found that 38 percent of the sites that were online in 2013 are now gone. When Online Content Disappears found that ...

Even when you use typical search engines, like Google, you just get those same boring links time and again, optimized around monetization and keywords. However, the old experience of “surfing” the ...

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"It's clear from the preceding sentence that we're referring to 'open-web display advertising' and not the open web as a ...

In Searches, Vauhini Vara probes the ways that we rely on the Internet and how we periodically attempt to free ourselves from ...

People’s views are becoming more and more polarized, with “echo chambers”—social bubbles that reinforce existing beliefs—exacerbating differences in opinion. This divergence doesn’t just apply to ...

Frustrated officials at an organization that had offered to help search for missing Cabazon 7-month-old Emmanuel Haro – only to withdraw the offer when law enforcement said the boy’s parents had ...

San Bernardino County sheriff’s investigators continued searching for missing 7-month-old Emmanuel Haro on Wednesday, Aug. 20, but until new clues emerge, the hunt won’t continue by foot, a ...

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The Internet Archive can now only crawl Reddit's homepage. Reddit's goal is to block AI firms from scraping Reddit user data. Publishers (and others) are suing AI companies for copyright infringement.

Circle Internet went public in June. The stablecoin issuer reported its first financial result today -- a $4.48-per-share loss. Circle's guidance for the rest of the year isn't particularly helpful to ...

Reddit is now blocking the Internet Archive (IA) from indexing popular Reddit threads after allegedly catching sneaky AI firms—restricted from scraping Reddit—instead simply scraping data from IA's ...