Is America's chip blockade working against China? So far, our survey says: No
Kettle Middle Kingdom can get its hands on hardware now – and still make better stuff later
Public Sector18 Nov 2023 | 30
Iain is The Register's North America editor. When reporting, his focus is computer security and cyber-crime. Iain also hosts our Kettle podcast series and other videos. He has more than 20 years of IT publishing experience, holding positions including technical editor and news editor.
What do Apple, Meta, TikTok have in common? Fighting off Europe's stiff antitrust rules
Gatekeeper status under DMA? Don't you know who I am?
Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 11
When it comes to personal data, we're on a highway to hell
Kettle Register journos tackle cars harvesting info, Meta and YouTube being taken to task over privacy, and more
Personal Tech13 Nov 2023 | 16
We're feeling pretty anti about these social networks
Kettle Meta faces personal info processing ban, needs to Thread the trademark needle in the UK, while Musk loses out
Personal Tech03 Nov 2023 | 9
Pope tempted by Python! Signs off on coding scheme for kids
In the name of the firewall, the server, and the home page default, amen
Bootnotes28 Oct 2023 | 41
Forget the outside hacker, the bigger threat is inside by the coffee machine
Kettle After a week of incidents, Register vultures pick over the innards
Security26 Oct 2023 | 20
Red light for robotaxis as California suspends Cruise's license to self-drive
Updated Indefinite ban due to 'public safety'
Personal Tech24 Oct 2023 | 22
No more Mr Nice DoJ: Tesla gets subpoenas over self-driving software claims
Has someone been shooting their mouth off a little too much?
Personal Tech23 Oct 2023 | 35
SEC boss warns it's 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause financial crash
AI In Brief Plus Meta gets physical, moves bots in the house...
AI + ML23 Oct 2023 | 28
Still got a job at the end of this week? You're lucky, as more layoffs hit the tech industry
Kettle 'Beatings will continue until morale improves'
Personal Tech21 Oct 2023 | 69
Net neutrality is back in the Land of the Free – for now
Until the Democrats leave office, that is
Networks20 Oct 2023 | 9
San Francisco mayor suggests police drones and CCTV can cure city's crime woes
Suggests bodycam footage should replace paperwork for simple arrests
Cybersecurity Month19 Oct 2023 | 30
America extends China chip export bans and acts to cut off backdoor exports
Chips cunningly designed to be less powerful and evade sanctions look to be in trouble
Systems18 Oct 2023 | 6
So this one time, at Bandcamp, half the staff were laid off
Epic redundancies all round
SaaS17 Oct 2023 | 45
Microsoft ends its week on a high – after a trying time with tax bills and Copilot costs
Kettle Bit of a Blizzard of news for Redmond
Software15 Oct 2023 | 2
When Microsoft complains that you're a monopolist you know things are bad
Kettle Google and Amazon are both in antitrust trouble as the US gets tough
Legal09 Oct 2023 | 17
Nuclear-powered datacenters: What could go wrong?
Kettle Or very right? Either way, it's not the usual atomic op we see in IT
On-Prem29 Sep 2023 | 90
Uncle Sam names three Amazon execs as Prime suspects in subscription ripoff case
Dark patterns 'knowingly duped millions of consumers'
Personal Tech21 Sep 2023 | 30
Bomb scare causes mass evacuation at DEF CON
DEF CON Summer Camp is over and what has been done? Have aspirations shriveled in the Sun?
Black Hat and DEF CON14 Aug 2023 | 6
Inside the Black Hat network operations center, volunteers work in geek heaven
Black Hat NOC, NOC ... Who's there?
Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2023 | 10
Veilid: A secure peer-to-peer network for apps that flips off the surveillance economy
DEF CON ‘It’s like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing’
Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2023 | 35
Want to pwn a satellite? Turns out it's surprisingly easy
Black Hat PhD student admits he probably shouldn't have given this talk
Black Hat and DEF CON11 Aug 2023 | 64
CISA boss says US alliance with Ukraine over past year is closer than Five Eyes
Black Hat And maybe shore up that critical infrastructure some more, America
Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 14
Shifting to two-factor auth is hard to do. GitHub recommends the long game
Black Hat Slow and steady wins this race with users
Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2023 | 24
DARPA tells AI world: Make a model that secures software, there's $25M in it for you
Black Hat If you're so smart, prove it by safeguarding our infrastructure
Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 8
It's that time of the year again: The trinity of infosec conferences
Black Hat A quick guide to Hacker Summer Camp
Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2023 | 9
Creator of the Unix Sysadmin Song explains he just wanted to liven up a textbook
When you get to Chapter 15 of a Unix book you're ready for a laugh
Sysadmin Month28 Jul 2023 | 18
Judge shoots down FTC attempt to stall Microsoft-Activision merger
Final update UK may be final stumbling point to Redmond's gaming ambitions
Personal Tech11 Jul 2023 | 20
Barts NHS hack leaves folks on tenterhooks over extortion
BlackCat pounces on 7TB of data and theatens to release it
Black Hat and DEF CON11 Jul 2023 | 23
Almost all classic US video games 'critically endangered'
Let us borrow titles digitally from libraries like we can books and movies, say 'puter historians
Personal Tech11 Jul 2023 | 28
Ariane 5 to take final flight, leaving Europe without its own heavy-lift rocket
Final update (literally) Launch will leave continent dependent on the US for space missions
Science04 Jul 2023 | 70
The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath
Register Kettle We'd sure like to see a bot unpick a failed update or handle users struggling to find the 'any' key
Sysadmin Month28 Jun 2023 | 43
What do we make of the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro? It doesn't take a magic leap to guess
Register Kettle Tune in and hear us human-not-AI vultures get meta on the news
Personal Tech07 Jun 2023 | 7
AI is great at one thing: Driving next waves of layoffs
Register Kettle ChatGPT, how many thousands of people should I replace today?
AI + ML18 May 2023 | 41
Another RSA Conf under our belt, here's the stuff we didn't print
RSA Conference For the event itself, it's like the COVID-19 pandemic was all just a long-gone bad dream
Spotlight on RSA04 May 2023 |
Uncle Sam probes H-1B abuse surge: What do our vultures make of it?
Register Kettle Two Limeys and two Yanks in immigration situation conversation
On-Prem04 May 2023 | 18
Space: The final frontier, or the next venture capital gold rush
Book review Ashlee Vance's When the Heavens Went on Sale paints an inside view of orbital startups
Science01 May 2023 | 3
Ashlee Vance spills the beans on the secret exciting life of space startups
Interview Reg-turned-Bloomberg journo talks rockets, satellites, and more
Science29 Apr 2023 | 10
Eric Idle tells infosec world to always look on the bright side of life
RSA Conference Has harsh words for Python fan Musk after losing the blue tick
Spotlight on RSA27 Apr 2023 | 22
You can cross 'Quantum computers to smash crypto' off your list of existential fears for 30 years
RSA Conference RSA's Adi Shamir thinks we're safe for a generation, but more gnarly keys are still a good idea
Spotlight on RSA26 Apr 2023 | 20
US to focus on stifling online attacks rather than snagging criminal convictions
RSA Conference Russia unlikely to give up its crooks, but American CSOs can go to the clink
Spotlight on RSA25 Apr 2023 | 1
Google's here to boost your cloud security and the magic ingredient? AI, of course
RSA Conference Send in the LLMs
Spotlight on RSA25 Apr 2023 | 4
From tiny acorns mighty oak trees grow – RSA is back in town
RSA Conference Security bods converge on the cool gray city of love
Spotlight on RSA24 Apr 2023 | 5
Russia has a stash of scary malware? We're shocked
Register Kettle Wrecking foreign infrastructure? But that's Team America's job!
Defense Tech Week06 Apr 2023 | 10
TikTok: Is this really a national security scare or is something else going on?
Register Kettle Our vultures who cover the news weigh in
Personal Tech30 Mar 2023 | 45
Gone in 120 seconds: Tesla Model 3 child's play for hackers
In brief Plus OIG finds Uncle Sam fibbed over Login.gov
Research27 Mar 2023 | 37
When it comes to database security it's down to people, not tech fixes, to save the day
Interview Get your staff and processes lined up and ready to go
Spotlight on Databases27 Mar 2023 | 5
We've got plenty of AI now but who asked for it? El Reg's vultures chime in
Register Kettle We each grab a mic and take apart the Bard stewards responsible for this hype
AI + ML23 Mar 2023 | 41
Watch Reg vultures wrap their heads around Silicon Valley Bank collapse
Register Kettle Can we blame social media for this? We can try
Personal Tech14 Mar 2023 | 19
SBOM is a 'massive galaxy of mess' for supply chain security
SCSW Talos team warns on third-party threats, but will it work? Betteridge's Law may apply
Systems28 Feb 2023 | 7
Musk, Tesla win securities fraud battle over that 'funding secured' tweet
'Wisdom of the people has prevailed' SpaceX supremo beams
Personal Tech04 Feb 2023 | 37
It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system
Feature How did the world's largest economy get stuck with retro measurement?
Science22 Jan 2023 | 702
New York gets right-to-repair law – after some industry-friendly repairs to the rules
Video We can already imagine Louis R's reaction
Personal Tech30 Dec 2022 | 54
Stolen info on 400m+ Twitter accounts seemingly up for sale
Updated Plus: Cracked Piers Morgan spews offensive tweets, not the usual kind
Security27 Dec 2022 | 64
Alphabet reshuffles to meet ChatGPT threat
In brief Plus: ArtStation cracks down on rebellious creators and lame-duck AI laws in the US on the cards
AI + ML25 Dec 2022 | 70
Tesla driver blames full-self-driving software for eight-car Thanksgiving Day pile up
US investigators probe Bay Bridge multi-car smash
AI + ML23 Dec 2022 | 198
OpenAI predicts biz can break a billion in revs by 2024
In Brief Plus: Suomi security warnings and artists rebel against AI on Artstation
AI + ML19 Dec 2022 | 6
He's only gone and done it. Ex-Register vulture elected to board of .uk registry
Kieren's here to chew bubblegum and kick Nominet ass. And he's all out of bubblegum
Networks07 Oct 2022 | 46
Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch
Obit HME2 signs off
Offbeat08 Sep 2022 | 407
Black Hat and DEF CON visitors differ on physical risk management
Black Hat COVID, flood surfing, crowds – what to pick?
Security15 Aug 2022 | 17
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