Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits
Ofcom survey finds 18-34s increasingly see life online as bad for society and their mental health
Off-Prem19 Dec 2025 | 55
GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens
Coming with added 'filters and rules' after prototype spat out inaccurate or outright wrong responses
Public Sector19 Dec 2025 | 42
BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI
Gov wants broadcaster to revive 1980s computer literacy magic – and maybe flog its archives to tech giants
AI + ML18 Dec 2025 | 229
DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in
18-year-old platform crumbles under 94M daily requests while resellers flog £62 tests for £500
On-Prem18 Dec 2025 | 97
England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion
Regulator proposes strict limits on screen-based testing, cites infrastructure concerns and lack of evidence for benefits
Public Sector17 Dec 2025 | 66
UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband
Changes to Electronic Communications Code would bypass landlord objections to fiber installations
Networks17 Dec 2025 | 49
MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are in Russian
New spy boss says officers must master code alongside tradecraft as agency navigates 'space between peace and war'
Security16 Dec 2025 | 108
Care leavers mired in red tape trying to get their own records
UK data watchdog demands public sector improves subject access request processing
Legal09 Dec 2025 | 2
Whitehall rejects £1.8B digital ID price tag – but won't say what it will cost
Officials insist OBR relied on 'early estimate' and real figure won't emerge until next year
Public Sector09 Dec 2025 | 49
UK moves to strengthen undersea cable defenses as Russian snooping ramps up
Atlantic Bastion combines AI systems with warships to counter increased surveillance
Networks08 Dec 2025 | 22
England's local government shake-up promises to be a massive tech headache
Surrey to be divided into two new councils in first phase of countrywide reorg
Public Sector31 Oct 2025 | 40
UK politicians to draft outage blueprint after AWS calamity
60% of government services rely on Amazon, Google, or Microsoft's clouds
PaaS + IaaS29 Oct 2025 | 17
Machine learning saves £4.4M in UK.gov work and pensions fraud detection
Poor data standards across government hamper scaling, says Parliament spending watchdog
Public Sector27 Oct 2025 | 40
Digital ID is now less about illegal working, more about rummaging through drawers
Starmer rebrands unpopular scheme as convenience tool after backlash
Public Sector24 Oct 2025 | 127
Brit AI boffins making bank with £560K average pay packet at Anthropic
Google, DeepMind, Microsoft also shower UK staff with six-figure salaries
AI + ML14 Oct 2025 | 17
EU biometric border system launch hits inevitable teething problems
Malfunctioning equipment and manual processing cause 90-minute waits
Public Sector14 Oct 2025 | 47
Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told
Politico avoids the topic at Labour conference speech, homes in on AI instead
Public Sector01 Oct 2025 | 124
UK's digital hospital plan meets analog reality check
Experts ask: Where will staff come from, and what about gran's flip phone?
Public Sector01 Oct 2025 | 29
Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide
Met's Croydon cameras hailed as a triumph, guidance to be published later this year
Security30 Sep 2025 | 67
Digital ID, same place, different time: In this timeline, the result might surprise us
Opinion Socio political backdrop is not what it once was....
Personal Tech29 Sep 2025 | 118
UK to roll out mandatory digital ID for right to work by 2029
Prime Minister Starmer revives controversial scheme despite past denials, sparking civil liberties backlash
Public Sector26 Sep 2025 | 310
EU starting registration of fingerprints and faces for short-stay foreigners
Biometric Entry/Exit System phased in from October to 29 Schengen countries
Security25 Sep 2025 | 208
Check your own databases before asking to see our passport photos, Home Office tells UK cops
Guidance follows privacy complaints over sharp increase in police searches of travel doc and visa pic libraries
Databases25 Sep 2025 | 18
Campaigners urge UK PM Starmer to dump digital ID wheeze before it's announced
Labour accused of sneaking in plans it denied before the general election
Security24 Sep 2025 | 150
UK justice minister pressed as court system bug raises fears of hidden case files
HMCTS expands investigation into IT flaw after whistleblowers draw Horizon comparisons
Public Sector24 Sep 2025 | 9
Vaccine dreams: A trip to Oxford to see a biscuit tin, some bed pans and ChAdOx1 nCov-19
Geek's Guide to Britain No, not the title of an undiscovered Douglas Adams book, it's medical history in the UK
Geek's Guide10 Sep 2021 | 29
The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different
Geek's Guide to Britain Planning a post-lockdown trip to the isle off England's south coast? Don't miss the interesting bits
Geek's Guide05 May 2021 | 37
The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly
Geek's Guide to Britain Farewell to St Paul's telco treasury
Geek's Guide19 Sep 2019 | 61
GDP-arrrrrrgggghhh! A no-deal Brexit: So what are you going to do with all that lovely data?
Feature What we know, plus potential ways to make that data flow
Legal05 Sep 2019 | 115
Can you trust Huawei... or any other networks supplier for that matter?
Price, bug-patching, security, control ... so many factors to consider
Networks10 Jul 2019 | 30
What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters
Geek's Guide to Britain Forget the scones and gardens, Cragside house is engineery
Geek's Guide18 Mar 2019 | 99
Blueprint of modern construction can be found in a tech cluster... of 19th century England
Geek's Guide to Britain The world's first iron-framed building will return to service soon
Geek's Guide27 Sep 2018 | 27
National ID cards might not mean much when up against incompetence of the UK Home Office
Would they have prevented Windrush? The mind boggles
Databases19 Jun 2018 | 141
UK government's cloud spending hits saturation: Love of Microsoft endures
Still making it rain for MS
SaaS10 May 2018 | 25
Life's a beach – then you're the comms nexus of the British Empire and Marconi-baiting hax0rs
Geek's Guide to Britain Inside Porthcurno's world-spanning telegraphy web
Geek's Guide15 Feb 2018 | 45
We already give up our privacy to use phones, why not with cars too?
The future of transport looks like a sensor-riddled computer
Science14 Feb 2018 | 102
Squeezing more out of slippery big tech may even take tax reforms
Figures are growing but still puny compared to profits
On-Prem22 Jan 2018 | 13
Worcestershire's airborne electronics warfare wonderland
Geek's Guide to Britain What Bernard Lovell did before Jodrell Bank
Geek's Guide12 Jan 2018 | 39
Universal basic income is a great idea, which is also why it won't happen
Maybe Zuck and Musk do have it all figured out, but powers that be will need to see some proof
Legal15 Nov 2017 | 257
Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham
Geek's Guide to Britain A star performer producing fission-free plasma power
Geek's Guide25 Sep 2017 | 143
Pssst... wanna participate in a Google DeepMind AI pilot? Be careful
Lessons from the NHS's 1.6 million data-records shovel
AI + ML23 Aug 2017 | 20
Tech can do a lot, Prime Minister, but it can't save the NHS
And it's not just a question of money, either
Legal08 Jun 2017 | 175
How the Facebook money funnel is shaping British elections
TV ads banned, but targeted Facebook videos have free rein
Legal30 May 2017 | 90
Drugs, vodka, Volvo: The Scandinavian answer to Britain's future new border
How Sweden and Norway turned to ANPR
Legal11 May 2017 | 145
Trump, Brexit, and Cambridge Analytica – not quite the dystopia you're looking for
Not EVIL, not FIRST, but yes... it's your data and they're using it
Software07 Mar 2017 | 69
Cut off: Big government IT wallets snap shut on BT's fingers
Reg Whitehall spend analysis reveals cash flowing away
Networks07 Feb 2017 | 27
Facebook pimping for politicos despite fake news 'purge'
Social giant works both sides of news street
On-Prem17 Jan 2017 | 24
Big tech's grip loosens on UK.gov IT spend
Victory for SMBs? Not quite, Reg research reveals
Legal13 Jan 2017 | 5
Meet the Loughborough 'emo' boffins who predicted Trump's victory
Social media tracking... yep, this is the future
Software24 Nov 2016 | 18
World-leading heart hospital 'very, very lucky' to dodge ransomware hit
Papworth's timely backups saved the day
Security04 Nov 2016 | 113
Turing, Hauser, Sinclair – haunt computing's Cambridge A-team stamping ground
Geek's Guide to Britain From Acorns to bedrooms
Geek's Guide26 Sep 2016 | 54
Nul points: PM May's post-Brexit EU immigration options
Comment What now as the Aussie system dream lies in tatters?
Channel05 Sep 2016 | 110
Ireland's govt IT: Recession and job cuts forced us to adapt
The road from 2008 bust, bailout and 'no new staff'
OSes23 Aug 2016 | 25
What's Brexit? How Tech UK tore up its plans after June 23
EU workers, new markets: post-Brexit pressure on May & Co
Channel25 Jul 2016 | 152
UK's education system blamed for IT jobs going to non-Brits
Middle-class terror of engineering also part of problem
Channel17 Jun 2016 | 130
Inside Electric Mountain: Britain's biggest rechargeable battery
Geek's Guide to Britain Swallow massive lake, regurgitate, repeat
Geek's Guide16 May 2016 | 186
US work visas for international tech talent? 'If Donald Trump is elected all bets are off'
Application costs up, lines longer... now this
On-Prem13 May 2016 | 137
Ireland's tech sector fears fallout of Brexit 'Yes' vote
Mad, bad and dangerous for trade
Channel29 Apr 2016 | 60
Tech biz bosses tell El Reg a Brexit will lead to a UK Techxit
Analysis If we vote to leave the EU we'll all become poor and unemployed, allegedly
Channel11 Mar 2016 | 165
Investigatory Powers Bill: Spooks willingly entering the light?
IPB Not quite the end of their prerogrative to pry
Channel01 Mar 2016 | 23
Biting the hand that feeds IT
