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 ...

In the fast-paced digital age, the internet has become an indispensable part of modern life, transforming the way we communicate, work, and conduct business. As technological advancements continue to ...

“Was the internet really this bad?” I wondered to myself as I read the September 1995 issue of The Atlantic. I was reading the issue in digital form, displayed on Netscape Navigator 3 on a mid-’90s ...

The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the internet functions. Instead ...

Macquarie University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information ...

The Internet Archive, the non-profit digital library and operator of the popular Wayback Machine that holds a repository of billions of captures of web pages as they appeared in the past, has come ...