2+ hour, 56+ min ago   (983+ words) DDoS hit blog that tried to uncover Archive.today founder's identity in 2023. Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger who…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1233+ words) Microsoft won't explain why Bing blocked 1.5 million Neocities websites. One of the weirdest corners of the Internet is suddenly hard to find on Bing, after the search engine inexplicably started blocking approximately 1.5 million independent websites hosted on Neocities. Monitoring stats,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (546+ words) The web's best guide to spotting AI writing has become a manual for hiding it. "It's really handy that Wikipedia went and collated a detailed list of "signs of AI writing," Chen wrote on X. "So much so that you can…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (255+ words) Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI to paid deals. On Thursday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced licensing deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI, expanding its effort to charge major tech companies for using Wikipedia…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1739+ words) We survived, but it wiped out the library," Internet Archive's founder says. The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization, but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project....

4+ mon, 3+ day ago   (548+ words) Wikipedia host's lawyer wants to help Ted Cruz understand how the platform works. The letter from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) accusing Wikipedia of left-wing bias seems to be based on fundamental misunderstandings of how the platform works, according to a…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (276+ words) Cruz sends letter demanding answers from Wikimedia Foundation. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to the nonprofit operator of Wikipedia alleging a pattern of liberal bias in articles on the collaborative encyclopedia. Cruz accused the foundation of "financially support…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (810+ words) Ten years of work to boost one man's reputation. Quick'what are the top entries in the category "Wikipedia articles written in the greatest number of languages"? The answer is countries. Turkey tops the list with Wikipedia entries in 332 different languages,…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (248+ words) Judge tossed claim but said UK must not "significantly impede" Wikipedia operations. Wikipedia's parent organization lost a challenge to the UK Online Safety Act but can bring another case if the government tries to force it to verify the identity…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (36+ words) Wikipedia is literally Generative Human Intelligence. There's no unqiue research, thoughts, or conclusions in there. It's a human-generated response to a request for information that uses other ... "Yuck: Wikipedia pauses AI summaries after editor revolt...