IT needs more brains, so why is it being such a zombie about getting them?
Opinion Open-book exams aren’t nearly open enough
Networks04 Sep 2023 | 116
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.
The printout may be dead but that beast of a print queue lives on
Opinion A queue gone mad leads to surprising results for 3D printing – but still no regulation
Personal Tech30 Aug 2023 | 32
Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead
Opinion Snoopers Charter: Dead cows don't snitch
Security21 Aug 2023 | 316
Indian armed forces gives Windows its marching orders, but only for desktop warriors
Opinion I am become Tux, destroyer of warez
OSes14 Aug 2023 | 40
Hide and seek in outer space highlights a battle here on Earth
Opinion Voyager's mix of tenacity and discovery should worry its science icon competitors
Science07 Aug 2023 | 43
What would sustainable security even look like?
Opinion Clue: Nothing like what’s on offer today
CSO31 Jul 2023 | 40
World's most internetty firm tries life off the net, and it's sillier than it seems
Opinion What do you call an air-gapped Googler? Anything you like, they can't hear you
Off-Prem24 Jul 2023 | 61
Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money
Opinion Relic of the Ballmer years, we shall not see such marketing nonsense again… oh, hang on
Sysadmin Month17 Jul 2023 | 51
The AI arms race could give us the cool without the cruel
Opinion War is obscene but it's also responsible for many technological advances
AI + ML10 Jul 2023 | 17
The number’s up for 999. And 911. And 000. And 111
Opinion When the world’s on fire, what number do you call?
Networks03 Jul 2023 | 229
Whose line is it anyway, GitHub? Innovation, not litigation, should answer
Opinion If Jesus was my Copilot, what would he do?
AI + ML19 Jun 2023 | 43
Microsoft’s Azure mishap betrays an industry blind to a big problem
Opinion If a tiny typo brings down half of Brazil, perhaps we’re the nuts
Software12 Jun 2023 | 80
Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs
Opinion Intellectual property law crushed by zombie horde
Software05 Jun 2023 | 111
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it
Opinion Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you
Personal Tech30 May 2023 | 92
Microsoft and Helion's fusion deal has an alternative energy
Opinion It’s about power and money alright, just not like that
Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week22 May 2023 | 46
Will LLMs take your job? Only if you let them
Opinion If you wear black T-shirts, are you even a white-collar worker?
AI + ML15 May 2023 | 43
The first real robot war is coming: Machine versus lawyer
Opinion Go, Team Robot
AI + ML09 May 2023 | 47
Microsoft cries foul over UK gaming deal blocker but it's hard to feel sorry for them
Opinion Brit regulator is merely heeding the Call of Duty
Software02 May 2023 | 78
If you don't get open source's trademark culture, expect bad language
Opinion Rust never sleeps. Sometimes it dozes at the wheel
Software24 Apr 2023 | 56
Firmware is on shaky ground – let's see what it's made of
Opinion Old architectures just don't stack up
Research17 Apr 2023 | 69
Starlink opens final frontier for radio astronomers
Opinion Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?
Science11 Apr 2023 | 37
In the battle between Microsoft and Google, LLM is the weapon too deadly to use
Opinion The only winning move is not to play
AI + ML03 Apr 2023 | 114
China crisis is a TikToking time bomb
Opinion ByteDance with the devil if you dare
Security27 Mar 2023 | 69
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 | 66
The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt
Opinion Any sufficiently stupid technology is indistinguishable from magical thinking
Security13 Mar 2023 | 295
Building bits of brain in the lab will change our minds
Opinion Wake up and smell the cortex
AI + ML06 Mar 2023 | 28
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 | 39
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 | 31
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 | 54
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 | 100
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 | 110
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 | 121
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 | 240
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 | 328
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 | 105
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
China's 7nm chip surprise reveals more than Beijing might like
Opinion Should we be worried? Well, size isn't everything
Systems01 Aug 2022 | 141
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
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