Huawei's farewell to Android isn't a marketing move, it's chess Opinion HarmonyOS NEXT sounds dissonant until you get the theme Columnists28 Oct 2024 | 125
The open secret of open washing – why companies pretend to be open source Opinion Allowing pretenders to co-opt the term is bad for everyone Columnists25 Oct 2024 | 45
Developer tried to dress for success, but ended up attired for an expensive outage Who, Me? Debugging software on the waterfront is a strangely dangerous task Columnists19 Aug 2024 | 160
Intel's processor failures: A cautionary tale of business vs engineering Opinion Chipzilla taking some punches but could it stay down? Columnists09 Aug 2024 | 94
The cybersecurity QA trifecta of fail that may burn down the world Opinion Malware is often described as biology. It should be the other way around Columnists05 Aug 2024 | 32
Techie's enthusiasm for decluttering fails to spark joy Who, me? Thankfully, luck – and a handy greybeard – came to the rescue Columnists06 May 2024 | 57
Time to study the classics: Vintage tech is the future of enterprise IT Opinion Look back in wonder Columnists16 Jan 2023 | 93
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
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
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
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
You can never have too many backups. Also, you can never have too many backups Who, Me? A Reg reader comes to appreciate the value of paper Columnists29 Aug 2022 | 116
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
We were promised integrated packages. Instead we got disintegrated apps Something for the Weekend Not to mention the severely disadvantageous subscription model Columnists19 Aug 2022 | 145
Psst … Want to buy a used IBM Selectric? No questions asked On Call We would have got away with it too, if hadn't been for your perfectly reasonable user request Columnists29 Jul 2022 | 174
Dell and Ubuntu certify latest model of XPS 13 ultrabook Computer giant's Project Sputnik extends to the 2022 model series Columnists21 Jul 2022 | 19
Getting that syncing feeling after an Exchange restore Who, Me? We've got the whole weekend. What could go wrong? Columnists04 Jul 2022 | 83
Seriously, you do not want to make that cable your earth On Call Network? What's that when it's at home? Columnists20 May 2022 | 250
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
September 16, 1992, was not a good day to be overly enthusiastic about your job Who, Me? If I get in early and work hard, everyone will notice, right? Columnists16 May 2022 | 64
If Trump gets elected, get your tech buying done asap 60% tariffs on all Chinese goods are going to slam the IT sector
Hide the keyboard – it's the only way to keep this software running On Call Lunch can be surprisingly dangerous. So can tea
Hack Nintendo's alarm clock to show cat pics? Let's-a-go! How 'Gary' defeated Bowser broke into the interactive alarm clock
UK councils bat away DDoS barrage from pro-Russia keyboard warriors Local authority websites downed in response to renewed support for Ukraine
An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy Ubuntu Summit 2024 ASWF is the open source foundation run by the folks who give out Oscars, and you've probably seen the results
Reaction Engines' hypersonic hopes stall as funding fizzles out Updated 173 jobs gone after air-breathing rocket project loses lift
The hunt is on for the scum who stole Britain's largest inflatable planetarium Have you seen this dome? It's full of stars
GCC 15 to keep Itanium support for now, after all Now, can someone come up with an emulator for the things, please?
Fujitsu, AMD lay groundwork to pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs Before you get too excited, Fujitsu's next-gen chips won't ship till 2027
Financial institutions told to get their house in order before the next CrowdStrike strikes Calls for improvements will soon turn into demands when new rules come into force
Confirmation dialog Groundhog Day: I click OK and it keeps coming back Something for the Weekend Yes/No/Cancel culture at its worst Columnists13 May 2022 | 145
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
In IT, no good deed ever goes unpunished Who, Me? When being helpful can mean being shown the door Columnists25 Apr 2022 | 71
The month I worked for DEADHEAD: Yes, that was their job title Something for the Weekend? We can't have that contractor making us look bad Columnists01 Apr 2022 | 71
Beware the techie who takes things literally Who, Me? 'If it works already, why pay' says the boss... because of course he does Columnists21 Feb 2022 | 94
Food for thought on the return to the office Something for the Weekend? Quality time with human beings? Nah. Gimme some free Monster Munch Columnists18 Feb 2022 | 87
File suffixes: Who needs them? Well, this guy did On Call He followed the instructions... blindly Columnists18 Feb 2022 | 206
Nothing's working, and I've checked everything, so it must be YOUR fault On Call Yes, but are you sure? Really sure? Columnists07 Jan 2022 | 164
Halo Infinite ups the nostalgia factor for fans of the originals, but it's not without limits The RPG 343 Industries brings open world to the long-running military sci-fi epic Columnists05 Jan 2022 | 11
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
Predictive Dirty Dozen: What will and won't happen in 2022 (unless it doesn’t/does) Something for the Weekend, Sir? We confidently predict that the predictions in this article will turn out wrong Columnists31 Dec 2021 | 211
Microsoft Paint + car park touchscreen = You already know where this is going 12BoC I'll just pay the- OH MY GOD Columnists26 Dec 2021 | 56
Not the kind of note you want to see fluttering from an ATM 12BoC This won't buy me beer Columnists25 Dec 2021 | 34
Who you gonna call? Premium numbers, but a not-so-premium service On Call Let me take you back – way back – to 1998 Columnists24 Dec 2021 | 134
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
A smarter alternative to password recognition could be right in front of us: Unique, invisible, maybe even deadly Something for the Weekend, Sir? Take your breath awayyyyyyyy Columnists03 Dec 2021 | 81
New World: Grindy? Check. Repetitive? Check. Fun? We hate to say it... but check The RPG Goddamn it, Jeff Bezos' lot can make a passable MMORPG after all Columnists30 Oct 2021 | 31
Config cockup leaves Reg reader reaching for the phone Who, Me? Yet another thing that was really not better in the old days Columnists11 Oct 2021 | 71
Get real: Say what you like about your app but don't be surprised if I trollsplain Something for the Weekend, Sir? My next column will be written in spaaaaaace Columnists08 Oct 2021 | 57
How to stop a content filter becoming a career-shortening network component Who, Me? He's not just a Big Cheese. He's a very naughty boy Columnists31 Aug 2021 | 69
When everyone else is on vacation, it's time to whip out the tiny screwdrivers Something for the Weekend, Sir? Fixing laptops and solving UX conundra – all in a night’s work Columnists27 Aug 2021 | 151
Fix five days of server failure with this one weird trick On Call When you have eliminated the impossible... Columnists27 Aug 2021 | 163
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 | 42
Hacking the computer with wirewraps and soldering irons: Just fix the issues as they come up, right? Who, Me? The neverending battle betweeen youthful optimism and aged cyncism Columnists23 Aug 2021 | 103
So the data centre's 'getting a little hot' – at 57°C, that's quite the understatement On Call You know that thing that's supposed to put out the fire? Columnists20 Aug 2021 | 102
Come fly with me. But first we need to find a boot device Bork!Bork!Bork! An unexpected bork in the boarding area Columnists11 Aug 2021 | 18
The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too Column It's wonderful that code written for Windows 3.1 still works well today Columnists11 Aug 2021 | 136
How to keep your enterprise up to date by deploying the very latest malware Who, Me? Salesmen suffer after suspicious surfing Columnists19 Jul 2021 | 71
The world is chaos but my Zoom background is control-freak perfection Something for the Weekend, Sir? Nudge that potted plant a little to the left aaaaand… action! Columnists09 Jul 2021 | 96
If HAL did digital signage. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that... Bork!Bork!Bork! My God! It's full of Bork! Columnists14 Jun 2021 | 17
Thanks, boss. The accidental creation of a lights-out data centre – what a fun surprise Who, Me? At least nobody said 'watch this!' Columnists07 Jun 2021 | 116
How many remote controls do you really need? Answer: about a bowl-ful Something for the Weekend, Sir? I don’t care if the football’s on, we’ll have to watch whatever the TV wants us to Columnists04 Jun 2021 | 148
Today I shall explain how dual monitors work using the medium of interpretive dance On Call You want the truth? You can't handle the truth! Columnists04 Jun 2021 | 150
Nobody expects the borkish bank-wisition: When I said I wanted some notes from the ATM, I never thought I'd see... Bork!Bork!Bork! ...the vast emptiness of Notepad Columnists28 May 2021 | 16
Nature is healing: Shhh. It's a lesser spotted Pi Bork nesting behind the bushes at IKEA Bork!Bork!Bork! Hålp, I äm stuck in emergency möde Columnists25 May 2021 | 25
Your private data has been nabbed: Please update your life as soon as possible while we deflect responsibility Something for the Weekend, Sir? Because our golf-obsessed boss has wandered off fondling his balls Columnists14 May 2021 | 86
Beijing steps on Alibaba's Ant Group by forcing it to submit to same regulation as banks Requires Alipay to open to competition but stops short of ordering company break up Columnists13 Apr 2021 | 9
How to ensure your tech predictions catch on in a flash? Do the mash Something for the Weekend, Sir? All inventions should be demonstrated by a puppet doing a Tommy Cooper impression Columnists09 Apr 2021 | 70
A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do? Who, Me? Halt and catch fire Columnists05 Apr 2021 | 177
Easily distracted by too many apps, too many meetings, and too much asparagus Something for the Weekend, Sir? Nothing like a steaming bowl of freshly picked spaghetti Columnists02 Apr 2021 | 75
Yep, you're totally unique: That one very special user and their very special problem On Call Register reader finds that some Apple fans are... not very bright? Columnists02 Apr 2021 | 195
A Code War has replaced The Cold War. And right now we’re losing it Column There’s always someone to blame for bad infosec, but never a willingness to make meaningful change Columnists10 Mar 2021 | 85
Stob's vital message to Britain's IT nation: And no, it's not about that Stob It's actually another Huawei down the 5G antennas Devops01 Apr 2020 | 28
Verity Stob is 'Disgusted of HG Wells': Time, gentlemen, please Stob Drinking the Kool-Aid outside the box Columnists28 Jan 2020 | 58
In Rust We Trust: Stob gets behind the latest language craze Stob My, what beautiful curly braces you have Devops27 Nov 2019 | 117
The Pi who loved me: Licensed to SSL Stob Wherein Verity is troubled by a curious spam Devops16 Jul 2019 | 29
Programmers' Question Time: Tiptoe through the tuples Stob Addressing the pro-horticulture/anti-nerdiculture bias Devops23 May 2019 | 38
Everyday doings of a metropolitan techie: Stob's software diary Stob Chronicles of Delphi scribe podcasts, er, scribbles her musings Columnists23 Jan 2019 | 52
That Old Time 2018 IT songbook: Verity, Verity - give us your lyrics, do! We're half crazy, all for the love of you Stob It's sing-along-a-Stob time Devops14 Nov 2018 | 20
30-up: You know what? Those really weren't the days Stob Happy anniversary, readers, from the original Git it girl Devops20 Sep 2018 | 143
The harbingers of Doomwatch: Quist is quite the quasi-Quatermass Stob Bug behaviour in the wild Columnists21 May 2018 | 36
There are 10 types of people in the world, but there is only one Melvyn Stob Verity puts a Bragg in your shell-like Columnists28 Mar 2018 | 42
Programming in the Middle Ages: Docker makes a lovely pair of trousers Stob Lest we forget Devops19 Sep 2017 | 56
Miss Misery on hacking Mr Robot and the Missing Sense of Fun Stob He's both the sharpest tool AND two spanners short Columnists28 Mar 2017 | 88
Seven pet h8s: Verity is sorely vexed Stob Where's pocket Bjarne Stroustrup when you need him? Columnists20 Jan 2017 | 57
Brexit at the next junction: Verity's guide to key post-vote skills STOB Breaking up is hard to do Devops26 Sep 2016 | 75
Washed out summer? Fear ye not: DVDs for DevOps droogs Stob Virtual box sets for REAL IT pros Columnists26 Jul 2016 | 23
The Sons of Kahn and the Witch of Wookey Stob Verily, they did make support for the Internet of Things Columnists20 May 2016 | 48
Alice, Bob and Verity, too. Yeah, everybody's got a story, pal Stob Bus bore claims saucy crypto bragging rights Columnists07 Mar 2016 | 45
Learn you Func Prog on five minute quick! Stob I remember the Monoids; they came before the Cybermen Devops13 Jan 2016 | 138
A Bombe Called Christopher, or A Very Poor Imitation Stob Verity publishes the real script of Turing biopic The Imitation Game Columnists26 Jan 2015 | 59
V. R. R. Stob's magnificent saga A Game Of Dog-and-Bones Stob GUARANTEED no elves and hardly any violence. Or incest Columnists18 Dec 2014 | 26
Today's bugs have BRANDS? Be still my bleeding heart [logo] Stob Code-slinger Verity reviews the rash of groovy-named open-source security vulns Columnists01 May 2014 | 108
Eight EXCELLENT languages for the fondleslab-friendly Intranet of Thingies Stob Shifting software paradigms and so forth Columnists20 Jan 2014 | 54
Three Men in a Tardis Stob Verity has discovered a pre-Doctor Doctor Who episode Columnists12 Nov 2013 | 35
Down with Unicode! Why 16 bits per character is a right pain in the ASCII Stob We were sold a lie. It's time to go back to 8-bit Columnists04 Oct 2013 | 198
Verity's summer songs for programmers: Sing your pals to sleep() Stob When Irish IDEs are smiling, and so on Devops22 Jul 2013 | 8
Bjarne Again: Hallelujah for C++ Stob Plus: Now officially OK to admit you never used STL algorithms Columnists17 Jun 2013 | 102
In space, no one can hear your laptop Blue Screen Stob Way above the Cloud, there's a bring-your-own-disaster brewing on the ISS OSes07 May 2013 | 14
Six things a text editor must do - or it's a one-way trip to the trash Stob Does your source code editor pass the Verity test? Columnists11 Mar 2013 | 227
8086 and All That. Revisited Stob Back when England was Top Nation in computing: reassembled from ancient parchments Columnists22 Dec 2012 | 27
The Sons of Kahn and the assembly language of the internet Stob C# hath become a lonely path. And the Beast hath shut its gates against us Columnists11 Dec 2012 | 49
Stob on Quatermass: Was this British TV's finest sci-fi hour? Stob Special Let's shake the dead fly out of the DVD Columnists08 Nov 2012 | 59
Five go wild with the Administration Tools Pack Stob Nobody owns the Linuxes, Julian Columnists23 Oct 2012 | 17
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IPv6 Stob You make my heart go Ping Columnists21 Aug 2012 | 79
Stuck in a dull conference? You need Verity's survival guide Stob Getting your own back on technical seminar speakers Columnists14 May 2012 | 39
Hold on, Booker prize judges - Stob's penned a steampunk hit Stob Everyone has a novel in them. Sadly this includes Reg columnist Verity Columnists17 Apr 2012 | 40