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A post shared Saturday on social media acknowledges those admins and developers at the Internet Archive working "literally round the clock... They have taken no days off this past week. They are taking none this weekend... they are working with all of their energy and considerable talent."
It describes people "working so incredibly hard... putting their all in," with a top priority of "getting the site back secure and safe".
But there's new and continuing problems, reports The Verge's weekend editor:
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