Protecting democracy means democratizing cybersecurity. Bring on the hackers
Opinion Digital freedom needs a Kali Linux for the rest of us
Security10 Mar 2026 | 8
Rupert Goodwins is a regular Register columnist and a veteran technology journalist. His career spans writing ROM code at Sinclair Research in the early 1980s for the ZX Spectrum to magazine technical editor, website editor, and fiction writer.
Microsoft's Project Silica promises eternal storage. It can't get there from here
Opinion Soon turned out, we had a heart of glass
Columnists02 Mar 2026 | 28
Every day in every way, passwords are getting worse and worse
opinion The only good password is no password at all
Security23 Feb 2026 | 92
Digital sovereignty must define itself before it can succeed
Opinion Great concept, shame about the details
Software16 Feb 2026 | 15
The Linux mid-life crisis that's an opportunity for Tux-led transformation
Opinion Sudo make me a star
Software09 Feb 2026 | 56
Infrastructure cyberattacks are suddenly in fashion. We can buck the trend
Opinion Don't be scared of the digital dark – learn how to keep the lights on
Cyber-crime02 Feb 2026 | 8
Just the Browser is just the beginning: Why breaking free means building small
Opinion Privacy tools are a start, but real freedom lives in the digital outskirts of the web
Software26 Jan 2026 | 23
Open source's new mission: Rebuild a continent's tech stack
Opinion Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. Europe of all places should know that
Software19 Jan 2026 | 127
The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age
Opinion Venezuela today, Taiwan tomorrow? This might be the last good year for buying hardware
Systems12 Jan 2026 | 110
Your smart TV is watching you and nobody's stopping it
Opinion From buried settings to geopolitical risk, the business model is surveillance
Edge + IoT05 Jan 2026 | 157
Imagine there's no AI. It's easy if you try
Four completely non-AI-related trends that will shape the future
Systems29 Dec 2025 | 40
The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked
Opinion Something messy happens when the cat hairs of reality meet the shiny hype of smart tech
AI + ML22 Dec 2025 | 124
Legal protection for ethical hacking under Computer Misuse Act is only the first step
Opinion I'm dreaming of a white hat mass
Security15 Dec 2025 | 17
Death in the dollhouse as Microsoft marketing reboots digital soap operas
Can’t take decades more synthetic case studies? Get those digital daggers out
Software08 Dec 2025 | 11
Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one
Opinion We're getting it baked into Windows whether we like it or not
AI + ML02 Dec 2025 | 98
Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)
Opinion Coding purists once considered BASIC harmful. AI can't even manage that
AI + ML24 Nov 2025 | 151
AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory
Opinion Top of the slops signposts the undiscovered country for an industry
Columnists17 Nov 2025 | 70
Big Tech's control freak era is breaking itself apart
Opinion AI slop, Trump tantrums, and zero humans answering phones
Software10 Nov 2025 | 66
From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world
Opinion Taking belief in LLMs very literally indeed
AI + ML03 Nov 2025 | 143
The perfect AWS storm has blown over, but the climate is only getting worse
Opinion When it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella
PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 27
The real insight behind measuring Copilot usage is Microsoft's desperation
Opinion Citizen! You are falling short in your AI usage targets! Strive harder for the revolution!
AI + ML20 Oct 2025 | 58
Arduino has a new job selling chips for its new owner. Let's not pretend otherwise
Opinion Getting swallowed by a whale is a life-changing event no matter what the whale says
Systems13 Oct 2025 | 26
AI: The ultimate slacker's dream come true
Opinion Microsoft's Copilot is helping workers perfect the ancient art of doing sweet f all
AI + ML06 Oct 2025 | 62
When AI is trained for treachery, it becomes the perfect agent
Opinion We’re blind to malicious AI until it hits. We can still open our eyes to stopping it
Security29 Sep 2025 | 9
Linux has the lineage to out-evolve the deadliest of cyber threats, given the right push
Opinion Darwin would understand microkernels. We need microkernels that understand Darwin.
OSes22 Sep 2025 | 26
Curious connections: Voyager probes and Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Opinion There's more than warm power supplies and wonky capacitors
Science15 Sep 2025 | 53
VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong
Opinion Have you ever seen the 'Are we the baddies' sketch, Broadcom?
Virtualization08 Sep 2025 | 67
DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that's getting bigger. Let's kill it off
Opinion Don't worry, there's a twist at the end
Cyber-crime01 Sep 2025 | 30
How Windows 11 is breaking from its bedrock and moving away
Opinion The once mighty Wintel supercontinent is cracking in more ways than you might think
Columnists29 Aug 2025 | 125
Two wrongs don’t make a copyright
Opinion What the Dickens is going on in Germany?
Legal26 Aug 2025 | 84
Anarchy in the AI: Trump's desire to supercharge US tech faces plenty of hurdles
Opinion Rotten is as Rotten does
AI + ML20 Aug 2025 | 22
Generative AI isn't just a matter of life and death. It's far more important than that
Opinion Visions of immortality are uniformly dull. But this is gonna get ugly
AI + ML18 Aug 2025 | 35
The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one
Opinion Success does not guarantee succession
OSes14 Aug 2025 | 150
AI coding tools crash on launch, could reboot better in future
Opinion Grace Hopper and GitHub have more in common than capital letters
AI + ML11 Aug 2025 | 24
Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK
Opinion A Microsoft Exit strategy isn’t just a good idea, it’s vital. It must go a long way beyond a farewell to Redmond
Public Sector08 Aug 2025 | 146
When hyperscalers can’t safeguard one nation’s data from another, dark clouds are ahead
Opinion If it’s not on-prem, it’s on the menu
Cloud Infrastructure Month04 Aug 2025 | 41
Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress
A better minesweeper is needed. Time for an intervention to save Microsoft from itself
OSes28 Jul 2025 | 169
The tiny tech tribe who could change the world tomorrow but won't
Sometimes, one small tweak can make a very big difference.
Personal Tech24 Jul 2025 | 88
Musk is messing with the Cosmic Dawn. Will alien hunters save the day for all mankind?
Opinion Science friction at the far end of time for SpaceX and astronomy
Networks23 Jul 2025 | 38
Open source's superior security is a matter of eyeballs: Be kind to the brains behind them
Opinion The modern art form that redeemed a Windows utility has lessons for all
Security22 Jul 2025 | 19
Stopping the rot when good software goes bad means new rules from the start
Opinion We need more paranoid Androids. And, well, everything else
Applications14 Jul 2025 | 37
AI scores a huge own goal if you play up and play the game
Opinion A virtual environment makes a great de-hype advisor
AI + ML07 Jul 2025 | 35
Your browser has ad tech's fingerprints all over it, but there's a clean-up squad in town
Opinion Like being hard to spot? They’d much rather you didn’t
Security30 Jun 2025 | 53
The one thing SME IT can do that the big guys can’t: Change the world
Opinion Not quite the answer to life, the universe and everything, but not far off
On-Prem23 Jun 2025 | 10
Put Large Reasoning Models under pressure and they stop making sense, say boffins
Opinion Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Not a problem with AI hype
AI + ML16 Jun 2025 | 55
Blocking stolen phones from the cloud can be done, should be done, won't be done
Opinion Big tech can't be bothered to fight crime. It can barely be bothered even to say so
Personal Tech09 Jun 2025 | 118
Are you a big AI business vendor making terrible AI business decisions? We can help
Opinion The word Microsoft does not appear in this article. Why would you think otherwise?
AI + ML02 Jun 2025 | 10
AI's enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking
Opinion Nothing will change while big tech sets the rules. We'll need someone even scarier
On-Prem27 May 2025 | 18
Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy
Opinion There’s something wrong with keyboard design, but we can’t put our finger on it
Personal Tech20 May 2025 | 237
Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sickness
Opinion We need to make taking IT systems 'off the books' a problem for corporate types
Cyber-crime12 May 2025 | 63
Culture comes first in cybersecurity. That puts cybersecurity on the front line in the culture wars
Opinion 'Trust us, we're from Trumpland' may not help Microsoft as much as it hopes
Columnists06 May 2025 | 44
Windows isn't an OS, it's a bad habit that wants to become an addiction
Opinion Think that next refresh is going to get better? The first step to freedom is admitting there's a problem
OSes28 Apr 2025 | 177
Bad trip coming for AI hype as humanity tools up to fight back
Opinion I was into Adversarial Noise before they were famous
AI + ML22 Apr 2025 | 71
Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying
Opinion UK holds onto oversight by a whisker, but it's utterly barefaced on the other side of the pond
Security14 Apr 2025 | 215
Please sir, may we have some Moore? Doesn't look that way
Opinion We're on a roadmap to nowhere. Come on inside
Columnists07 Apr 2025 | 31
When even Microsoft can’t understand its own Outlook, big tech is stuck in a swamp of its own making
Opinion Make things that work for the billions, not the billionaires
Applications31 Mar 2025 | 90
Microsoft tastes the unexpected consequences of tariffs on time
Opinion Throw a spanner in the works, best get good at fixing things. Now, where did you put that spanner?
Security24 Mar 2025 | 105
This one weird trick can make online publishing faster, safer, more attractive, and richer
Opinion Well, maybe not richer, but we're about to find out
Software17 Mar 2025 | 76
Things are looking down for cutting-edge cosmic observatories
Opinion Space is the place? Not if you're nuts about neutrinos
Science10 Mar 2025 | 16
Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors
Opinion Cut off one head and 100 grow back? Decapitation may not be the way to go
Cyber-crime03 Mar 2025 | 128
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