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One of the earliest observations of the behavior of the Web at scale was "link rot". There were a lot of 404s, broken links. Resea...

China’s bitcoin mines could derail carbon neutrality goals, study says and Bitcoin mining emissions in China will hit 130 million tonnes by...

Although both Tesla and SpaceX are major engineering achievements, Elon Musk seems completely unable to understand the concept of externalit...

The Internet Archive is a remarkable institution, which has become increasingly important during the pandemic. It has been for many years ...

The invaluable statistics published by Backblaze show that, despite being built from technologies close to the physical limits ( Heat-Assis...

Alan Kay 's Should web browsers have stuck to being document viewers? makes important points about the architecture of the infrastructu...

A week ago yesterday the Internet Archive launched both a portal for the Decentralized Web (DWeb) at https://getdweb.net/ , designed by a t...