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
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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 | 198
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 | 31
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 | 235
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 | 329
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 | 236
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 | 64
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 | 29
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 | 126
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 | 143
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
Open source, closed wallets, big profits – nobody wins the OSS rock, paper, scissors game
Opinion Stop horsing around. Pony up
Software17 Jan 2022 | 107
No defence for outdated defenders as consumer AV nears RIP
Opinion How sad would you be to see AV go? Us neither
Security10 Jan 2022 | 96
The year ahead in technology fail: You knew they were bad, now they're going to prove it
Opinion Stock up on schadenfreude, it may be 2022's most popular commodity
Columnists04 Jan 2022 | 79
You geeks have inherited the Earth, but what are you going to do with it?
Opinion Historians a thousand years hence will talk about us. Let's not muff it
Personal Tech27 Dec 2021 | 97
Log4j and Omicron: Brothers in harm, mothers of invention
Opinion That which does not kill us can still ruin our Christmas
Columnists20 Dec 2021 | 36
Intel's mystery Linux muckabout is a dangerous ploy at a dangerous time
Opinion Open source is no place for secrets
Software13 Dec 2021 | 131
The dark equation of harm versus good means blockchain’s had its day
Opinion Put crypto back in the crypt
Databases06 Dec 2021 | 170
Smart things are so dumb because they take after their makers. Let's fix that
Opinion IoT still needs its lightbulb moment
Edge + IoT29 Nov 2021 | 84
Russia's orbital insanity is almost beyond redemption – but there's space for improvement
Opinion Every debris cloud has a silver lining
Science22 Nov 2021 | 94
Tech bro CEOs claim their crowns because they fix problems. Why shirk the biggest one?
Opinion Saving the planet is sexier than the next iPhone
Personal Tech15 Nov 2021 | 77
Calendars have gone backwards since the Bronze Age. It's time to evolve
Opinion Are you syncing what I'm syncing?
Software08 Nov 2021 | 134
Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete: Time for the end game
Opinion I've read this stuff, says one dev. 'Either Google is screwed, or society is screwed'
Applications01 Nov 2021 | 179
Online harms don’t need dangerous legislation, they need a spot of naval action
Opinion It worked on Jolly Roger, it can work on ProudWhiteGuy66373
Security25 Oct 2021 | 142
Think your phone is snooping on you? Hold my beer, says basic physics
Opinion Information wants to be free, and it's making its escape
Networks18 Oct 2021 | 118
The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's make it longer next time
Opinion Zucks to lose your #HugOps
Networks11 Oct 2021 | 150
Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the BBC stage a very British coup to rescue our data from Facebook and friends
Opinion Terms and conditions apply, and that’s a good thing
Security04 Oct 2021 | 190
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