The Shakespearian question of our age: To cloud or not to cloud
Opinion Don't need flexibility and scaling? Then don’t pay for what you don’t need
PaaS + IaaS20 Mar 2023 | 61
The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt
Opinion Any sufficiently stupid technology is indistinguishable from magical thinking
Security13 Mar 2023 | 293
Building bits of brain in the lab will change our minds
Opinion Wake up and smell the cortex
AI + ML06 Mar 2023 | 29
What's really up with data disconnects in the deep blue sea?
Opinion There's always a catch if you blame it on trawlers
Networks27 Feb 2023 | 40
What Mary, Queen of Scots, can teach today’s cybersec royalty
Opinion Tech has changed in 400 years. The rules haven’t
Security20 Feb 2023 | 33
Google's $100b bad day demo may be worth the price
Opinion Bad AI is bad, bad search is worse
AI + ML13 Feb 2023 | 73
Trust, not tech, is holding back a safer internet
Opinion Excuse me, citizen, did you packet this data yourself?
CSO06 Feb 2023 | 60
FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure
Opinion Don't throw the open source baby out with the bathwater
OSes30 Jan 2023 | 101
Bill shock? The red ink of web services doesn’t come out of the blue
Opinion To avoid cloudy judgement, heed the weather forecast
PaaS + IaaS23 Jan 2023 | 29
Time to study the classics: Vintage tech is the future of enterprise IT
Opinion Look back in wonder
Columnists16 Jan 2023 | 93
Disruptive innovation's like a party. It's always happening elsewhere
Opinion Citation needed?
Personal Tech09 Jan 2023 | 13
Citizen Coder? Happiness Concierge? Here come 2023's business cards
Opinion A pose by any other name would pay as sweet
Personal Tech03 Jan 2023 | 66
Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free
Opinion Users may be the product, but we come with a hell of a price tag
Off-Prem26 Dec 2022 | 215
In praise of MIDI, tech's hidden gift to humanity
Opinion One version to bind them all, and in the darkness rock them
Personal Tech19 Dec 2022 | 117
ChatGPT has mastered the confidence trick, and that's a terrible look for AI
Opinion It's very good, and that's very bad
AI + ML12 Dec 2022 | 158
Killing trees with lasers isn’t cool, says Epson. So why are inkjets any better?
Imagine there's no printer drivers. It's easy if you can...
Columnists05 Dec 2022 | 118
Spooky entanglement revealed between quantum AI and the BBC
Opinion QC: Still not actually useful, but it's increasingly intriguing
AI + ML28 Nov 2022 | 34
HPC's lost histories will power the future of tech
Opinion If you thought the '80s were cool, wait for the revival
HPC21 Nov 2022 | 16
Twitter is suffering from mad bro disease. Open thinking can build it back better
Opinion We must immunize the Mastodon
Personal Tech14 Nov 2022 | 199
Qualcomm vs Arm: The bizarro quotient just went off the scale
Opinion Even 2022 can't muster this much madness – or can it?
Systems07 Nov 2022 | 32
Open source's totally non-secret weapon big tech dares not use: Staying relevant
Opinion Detachment from users' lived reality is how corporates shoot themselves in the foot
Software31 Oct 2022 | 79
Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF
Comment The ghosts of dead trees haunt us still
Columnists24 Oct 2022 | 238
Starlink, shot by both sides in Ukrainian fracas, lives to fight on
Opinion Jam today, jam tomorrow?
Networks17 Oct 2022 | 44
How do you protect your online systems? Cultivate an insider threat
Opinion Challenge your people to try to break into your systems, and see how interesting life gets for your colleagues
Security10 Oct 2022 | 28
The open internet repels its most insidious attackers. They’ll return
Opinion It’ll take an army of billions to hold them back. Let’s make one
Networks03 Oct 2022 | 42
Rust is eating into our systems, and it's a good thing
Opinion Language wars, huh, what are they good for?
Columnists26 Sep 2022 | 124
Excel's comedy of errors needs a new script, not new scripting
Opinion Microsoft reanimates the wrong corpse
Applications20 Sep 2022 | 110
Want to know the future of FOSS? You can look it up in a database
Opinion If you make it here, you can make it anywhere
Databases12 Sep 2022 | 10
The crime against humanity that is the modern OS desktop, and how to kill it
Opinion Just one big GUI mess
OSes05 Sep 2022 | 334
The International Space Station will deorbit in glory. How's your legacy tech doing?
Opinion Your past projects may be a pain, but can they rain fiery death from above?
Columnists30 Aug 2022 | 101
Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there
Opinion No country for old menus
Columnists22 Aug 2022 | 104
Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape
Opinion Of all the non-carbon energy options we have, this is the only one which can keep the lights on
Science15 Aug 2022 | 515
GitLab versus The Zombie Repos: An old plot needs a new twist
Opinion Git back, git back, git back to where your files belong
Devops08 Aug 2022 | 58
Infosec not your job but your responsibility? How to be smarter than the average bear
Opinion Many of last week's security stories tell the same tale
Security25 Jul 2022 | 20
Engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems
Opinion Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies
Systems18 Jul 2022 | 260
Even robots have the right to learn from open source
Opinion Just because it's Microsoft doesn't mean it's wrong
Software11 Jul 2022 | 68
We need a Library of Congress – but for the digital world
Opinion Hack the future with a meta museum: 1 weird trick to free 50 years of digital life
Databases04 Jul 2022 | 31
Cloudflare's outage was human error. There's a way to make tech divinely forgive
Opinion Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge. And the edge is safer if you can take a step back
PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2022 | 23
AI's most convincing conversations are not what they seem
Opinion It's time to toss the Turing test – it's not really about the machines at all
AI + ML20 Jun 2022 | 125
TSMC and China: Mutually assured destruction now measured in nanometers, not megatons
Opinion The weapon too deadly to use is just a handful of dirt. Let's change that
Systems13 Jun 2022 | 74
Behind Big Tech's big privacy heist: Deliberate obfuscation
Opinion You opted out, but you didn't uncheck the box on page 24, so your data's ours...
Storage06 Jun 2022 | 67
We've never even built datacenters using robots here on Earth
Opinion Interesting Moon experiment raises cool questions about disposal of hidden value
Networks30 May 2022 | 43
Safari is crippling the mobile market, and we never even noticed
Opinion With web apps, Apple insists on taking the pith helmet
Applications23 May 2022 | 137
RISC-V needs more than an open architecture to compete
Opinion Arm shows us that even total domination doesn't always make stupid levels of money
Columnists16 May 2022 | 57
Only Microsoft can give open source the gift of NTFS. Only Microsoft needs to
Opinion Forget the days of NT (Nineties Tyranny), let's change that to New Trust. Corporate IT is watching
Software09 May 2022 | 153
Privacy pathology: It's time for the users to gather a little data – evidence
Opinion If Sherlock was alive today, he’d pack a Pi next to pistol and pipe
Security03 May 2022 | 30
Your AI can't tell you it's lying if it thinks it's telling the truth. That's a problem
Opinion Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of ML? Er, nobody
Columnists25 Apr 2022 | 52
Twitter faces existential threat from world's richest techbro
Opinion Cash of the Titan: Musk's Twitter take-over plan may be many things – let's hope it’s not the one he claims
Networks19 Apr 2022 | 152
Why is IBM selling post-quantum crypto when it's still a pre-quantum company?
Opinion We answer today's burning question: should YOU buy an IBM z16?
Systems11 Apr 2022 | 24
Any fool can write a language: It takes compilers to save the world
Opinion The language wars were fun, but they're done
Software04 Apr 2022 | 144
The first step to data privacy is admitting you have a problem, Google
Opinion Android messaging heist isn't the action of a well company. Let us help
Security28 Mar 2022 | 106
File Explorer fiasco: Window to Microsoft's mixed-up motivations
Opinion MS craves extra revenue, but ad pipelines in the OS are hostages to fortune
OSes21 Mar 2022 | 79
114 billion transistors, one big meh. Apple's M1 Ultra wake-up call
Opinion What if we've built the future, but nobody wants to come?
Personal Tech14 Mar 2022 | 245
Enterprise IT finds itself in a war zone – with no script
Opinion Where in the stack should sanctions start?
PaaS + IaaS07 Mar 2022 | 40
Russia is the advanced persistent threat that just triggered. Ready?
Opinion Data security looks very different when your life depends on it
Security28 Feb 2022 | 121
Akamai's Linode buy: Good for enterprise, risky for others
Opinion Feisty indies that do too well don't stay indie for long
SaaS21 Feb 2022 | 12
The end of free Google storage for education
Opinion Bye, bye, free American bytes. I took the GDrive to be levied as .EDU sighs
Storage14 Feb 2022 | 44
Google Cloud takes a gap year. It may come back with very different ideas
Opinion Twelve months without refreshment can break an addiction
PaaS + IaaS07 Feb 2022 | 12
Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis
Opinion The doctor won't see you now
AI + ML31 Jan 2022 | 120
IPv6 is built to be better, but that's not the route to success
Opinion Why won't you love me, sobs perennially spurned protocol
Networks24 Jan 2022 | 267
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