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 | 53
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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 | 152
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 | 147
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 | 80
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 | 244
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 | 78
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 | 180
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 | 117
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
Calculating the big picture: Future HPC efforts will soon see off its von Neumann past
Feature Dear John, I'm leaving you for a robot
HPC27 Sep 2021 | 41
If your head's not in the cloud, you're not in the right place
Opinion 'Where are the k8s kids?' ask corporates as they can't pay, won't pay
PaaS + IaaS27 Sep 2021 | 41
Edge computing has a bright future, even if nobody's sure quite what that looks like
Making sense of blurry lines
Edge + IoT21 Sep 2021 | 11
It's the end of the world as we know it, and we should feel fine
Column Honour thine ancestors, and move on
On-Prem20 Sep 2021 | 85
Ghosts in the machine learning pipeline will be impossible to exorcise
Opinion Who wants to live forever? It could be the offer you can't refuse
AI + ML13 Sep 2021 | 38
Docker’s cash conundrum is becoming a bet on a very different future
Opinion Tiers of a clown – or the early days of a better service model?
Devops06 Sep 2021 | 32
Adding AI to everything won't make sense until we can use it for anything
Opinion You've gotta have standards
AI + ML30 Aug 2021 | 68
Horizon Workrooms promises a virtual future of teal despair
Opinion Only one company can make VR so bad it makes MS Teams look good – Facebook
Columnists23 Aug 2021 | 39
Apple's iPhone computer vision has the potential to preserve privacy but also break it completely
Opinion Cupertino can see things you people wouldn't believe
Security16 Aug 2021 | 114
Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar?
Column Watts coming down may not go up
Science09 Aug 2021 | 190
Please, no Moore: 'Law' that defined how chips have been made for decades has run itself into a cul-de-sac
Feature Are we approaching peak computing? What are the alternatives?
On-Prem05 Aug 2021 | 159
Right to repair shouldn't exist – not because it's wrong but because it's so obviously right
Column Gatekeeper capitalism at its most odious
Personal Tech02 Aug 2021 | 207
Windows 11 comes bearing THAAS, Trojan Horse as a service
Column You may know it better as Teams. Giddy up
OSes26 Jul 2021 | 123
Tomorrow's wireless world will be fatter, faster, and creepier
Feature Video didn't kill the radio star – it made it stronger than ever
Networks20 Jul 2021 | 36
Where on Gartner's Hype Cycle is Gartner's Hype Cycle?
Column That's the way uh-huh uh-huh, I hype it
On-Prem19 Jul 2021 | 43
Windows 11 still doesn't understand our complex lives – and it hurts
Column Linux user dips toe in Microsoft OS
OSes12 Jul 2021 | 154
Big Blue's big email blues signal terminal decline – unless it learns to migrate itself
Column Quit financial engineering and go back to your roots, IBM
Off-Prem05 Jul 2021 | 43
Hubble’s cosmic science is mind-blowing, but its soul celebrates something surprising about us
Column That which is born of the hack is hard to kill
Science28 Jun 2021 | 30
Windows 11: Meet the new OS, same as the old OS (or close enough)
Column From point release to pointless release
OSes21 Jun 2021 | 259
We've been shown time and again that strong encryption puts crims behind bars, so why do politicos hate it?
Column If we trust it, crooks will too – meaning Plod can get their kiloscrote nab
Security14 Jun 2021 | 84
Military infosec SNAFUs: What WhatsApp and bears in the woods can teach us
Column One can’t spell shit without IT, but for Pete's sake it doesn't need to be in your endpoints
Security07 Jun 2021 | 20
Will the real IRC please stand up? Freenode’s forest fire leaves ashes – and fresh growth
Column Success, disagreement, forking, success... it's the c-IRC-le of liiiiiiiiiife
Software01 Jun 2021 | 41
Apple is happy to diss the desktop – it knows who's got the most to lose
Column Also: The basic utility of the general purpose OS cannot be sanitised into total safety. Nor should it
Security24 May 2021 | 79
When the chips are down, Intel's biggest gamble isn't what to do – it's whom to do it with
Column Trade you architecture and production tricks for lithography and yield plans?
Off-Prem17 May 2021 | 9
Quantum computing: Confusion can mask a good story, but don't take anyone's word for it
Column It'll do great things in the future, just don't impose timeframes on when
HPC10 May 2021 | 28
House of pain: If YAML makes you swear, shout louder – the agony is there for a reason
Column Non-quoted string vest? Don't mind if we do
Devops04 May 2021 | 45
Ethics isn't a county east of London, but it's the only way to look at security
Column We are all human beings, we live in a community, and everything we do affects others
Security26 Apr 2021 | 21
