ALT Internet Archive ops staff were heroes last night. PHP vulnerability announced, soon saw attacks, isolated the vulnerability, used Claude to make fixes for our older php versions, used local models to run simulated attacks, deployed. reinforced WAF and other guards. Offline briefly, Back on new versions and running! Given the severity, there are heroes in many many orgs from last night. Could have been no lights, no traffic signals, real problems. Heroes. Thank you all.

ALT 1930 census page from Murray, Kentucky, with handwritten names, birthplaces, and occupations

ALT Event graphic for "Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation," Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm–10pm, at Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco. On cream graph paper, a schematic line drawing of a classical library building (columns and pediment) is rendered in overlapping pink, blue, yellow, and orange lines with dot joints, beside bold black and pink text.

ALT Atlantic article The Internet Needs a Memory by Brewster Kahle, with a green head and cursor graphic

ALT Event announcement graphic reading "Celebrate with us" at top on a dark green background. Center panel shows the "Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation" flyer with its colorful abstract line drawing of a library building and event details: "Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm - 10pm, Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco." Bottom section reads "October 21, San Francisco + online, Registration is now open," alongside the Internet Archive logo.

ALT Teal graphic for the Vanishing Culture series with the headline 'Why does a century-old hobby have almost no archive?' and a quote from Kay Savetz, Curator & Enthusiast: "The people creating history don't always realize at the time that they're creating history." A column of pixels dissolves beside the quote.

ALT Open by Design graphic from Internet Archive Canada: Tuesday Oct 27, 2026, The Permanent, Vancouver

ALT Internet Archive Hero Award by Taekyeom Lee: a speckled blue-gray temple statue with a heart Brewster Kahle hands Tim Berners-Lee the Internet Archive Hero Award statue while seated on stage Hero Award statue by Taekyeom Lee beside Brewster Kahle presenting it to Tim Berners-Lee on stage

ALT Black-and-white pen-and-ink illustration by E. H. Shepard of Winnie-the-Pooh sitting on a log and gazing upward beside a large tree. Behind him is a dark doorway at the tree’s base, with a sign reading “MR SANDERS” above it, a small bell, a hanging bell pull, and a partial note reading “RNIG ALSO.” A small pile of sticks lies on the ground to the right. Dense cross-hatching forms the tree.

ALT Cream promotional graphic pairing an Internet Archive tools grid with a panel reading "Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation," a matching circuit-line doodle, and event details: Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm-10pm, Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco.

ALT Teal banner with corner dice and the GameRT logo above purple text reading Everything Is On Fire Spectacular! Below, the white ALA American Library Association logo on red sits beside black text on white: Friday, October 16, 2026. FMRT & IFRT, Saving Democracy, One Public Record at a Time, 12:45p to 2:00p Central. Speakers Kelly Doyle Kim of ATLAS and Merrilee Proffitt of Democracy’s Library discuss archived public records.