Governments can't seem to stop asking for secret backdoors
Opinion Cut off one head and 100 grow back? Decapitation may not be the way to go
Cyber-crime03 Mar 2025 | 50
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.
Microsoft's Euro-mandated File Explorer surgery shows 'less is more' is still a thing
Opinion Humble but with a huge history, the utility's privacy pare-back points to a productive possible future
Columnists24 Feb 2025 | 21
Time to make C the COBOL of this century
Opinion Lions juggling chainsaws are fun to watch, but you wouldn't want them trimming your trees
CSO18 Feb 2025 | 222
The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway
Opinion When your state machines are vulnerable, all bets are off
Software10 Feb 2025 | 154
DeepSeek spills Big AI's open secret: Bright people with good ideas can beat billion dollar binges
Opinion You can’t make monopoly money without a monopoly, but you sure can lose it
AI + ML03 Feb 2025 | 28
Fear of the unknown keeps Broadcom's VMware herd captive. Don't be cowed
Opinion Prisoners of ware can’t escape by looking at each other. Form a committee, soldiers
Virtualization28 Jan 2025 | 30
How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish
Opinion Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian
Networks20 Jan 2025 | 111
Pornhub lockdown and fact-free Zuckbots – welcome to 2025
Opinion Think you're good at spotting trends? Try these on for size
Networks13 Jan 2025 | 131
After China's Salt Typhoon, the reconstruction starts now
Opinion If 40 years of faulty building gets blown down, don’t rebuild with the rubble
Cyber-crime06 Jan 2025 | 41
Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did
Opinion 2024's Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor
Bootnotes01 Jan 2025 | 116
'That's not a bug, it's a feature' takes on a darker tone when malware's involved
Opinion Mummy, where do zero days come from?
Security23 Dec 2024 | 26
The sweet Raspberry taste of success masks a missed opportunity
Opinion Best way to demystify modern computing? Brick it
Personal Tech16 Dec 2024 | 161
Mr Intel leaving Intel is not a great sign... for Intel
Opinion Pat Gelsinger has unexpectedly quit. Gore dump follows
Systems09 Dec 2024 | 48
Telco security is a dumpster fire and everyone's getting burned
Opinion The politics of cybersecurity are too important to be left to the politicians
Security02 Dec 2024 | 63
Mysteries in polar orbit – space's oldest working hardware still keeps its secrets
Opinion It's never aliens, but it could be underground TV repair techs
Networks25 Nov 2024 | 52
Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink at any price
Opinion You think employee-generated content is bad now?
AI + ML18 Nov 2024 | 125
When Windows Server 2025 is delivered like it's 1999, nobody gets to party
Opinion What's the difference between a broken update system and a malware injection engine?
OSes11 Nov 2024 | 25
Public sector cyber break-ins: Our money, our lives, our right to know
Opinion Is that a walrus in your server logs, or aren't you pleased to see me?
Cyber-crime04 Nov 2024 | 24
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 | 126
WinAmp's woes will pass, but its wonders will be here forever
Opinion Not as clumsy or random as a streamer, an elegant player for a more civilized age
Software20 Oct 2024 | 48
Smart homes may be a bright idea, just not for the dim bulbs who live in 'em
Opinion How many Reg hacks does it take to change a light fitting...?
Personal Tech14 Oct 2024 | 159
Embattled users worn down by privacy options? Let them eat code
Opinion Struggle ye not with cookies, lest ye become a cookie monster
Security07 Oct 2024 | 66
Extracting vendor promises won't fix cybersecurity. Extracting teeth might
Opinion One branch of tech has learned to work together to solve the near-impossible. Now it's our turn
Applications30 Sep 2024 | 43
AI to power the corporate Windows 11 refresh? Nobody's buying that
Opinion Microsoft should look to Apple for lessons in flogging dead horses
Personal Tech23 Sep 2024 | 68
China’s quantum* crypto tech may be unhackable, but it's hardly a secret
Opinion * Quite Unlikely A New Technology’s Useful, Man
Security16 Sep 2024 | 52
Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It's one of our oldest
Opinion From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever built. Not even a kernel
Software09 Sep 2024 | 121
Microsoft decides it's a good time for bad UI to die
Opinion Set the Control Panel for the heart of the Sun
OSes02 Sep 2024 | 198
Sorry, Moxie. Blaming Agile for software stagnation puts the wrong villain in the wrong play
Opinion Innovation dead for twenty years? Tell that to 2004
Software19 Aug 2024 | 59
LLM-driven C-to-Rust. Not just a good idea, a genie eager to escape
Opinion Automatic for the people? Don’t mind if we do
Software12 Aug 2024 | 89
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
Silicon, stars, and sulfur make Apollo's unlikely legacy
Opinion Neil stepped on a rock. We're surfing an interstellar wave 9,000 light years long. Go us
Science29 Jul 2024 | 57
How to maintain code for a century: Just add Rust
Opinion Proprietary code goes unpublished – but no FOSS package ever dies
Software23 Jul 2024 | 100
Hey Microsoft – what ever happened to 'Developers, developers, developers'?
Opinion Hey, here’s an idea… create a point system for every time Microsoft hurts us
Software15 Jul 2024 | 70
Breaking the rules is in Big Tech's blood – now it's time to break the habit
Opinion Microsoft: All your data are belong to us? World: That's so last century
AI + ML08 Jul 2024 | 39
Polyfill.io claims reveal new cracks in supply chain, but how deep do they go?
Opinion There will always be bad actors in the system. We can always learn from the drama they create
Security01 Jul 2024 | 19
Meta, Microsoft SQL Server make strange bedfellows on a couch of cyber-pain
Opinion Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening?
Security24 Jun 2024 | 41
Can platform-wide AI ever fit into enterprise security?
Opinion You know what they say about headlines that end in a question mark
AI + ML17 Jun 2024 | 7
Fragile Agile development model is a symptom, not a source, of project failure
Opinion Changing the fig leaf can't change what lies beneath ...
Software10 Jun 2024 | 84
Broadcom’s VMware strategy looks ever more shaky - and less relevant
Opinion Yes, it’s that darned AI again
Virtualization03 Jun 2024 | 25
Take two APIs and call me in the morning: How healthcare research can cure cyber crime
Opinion In evolving smarter security, open source is the missing link
Cyber-crime28 May 2024 | 3
So you've built the best tablet, Apple. Show us why it matters
Opinion Has Cupertino been trolling us all along?
Personal Tech20 May 2024 | 117
You want us to think of the children? Couldn't agree more
Opinion But breaking E2EE and blanket bans aren't thinking at all
Security13 May 2024 | 80
A tale of two Chinas: Our tech governance isn't perfect, but we still get to say no
Opinion Too many folks who should know better saying info-slurping tactics of Big Tech are just as bad
Personal Tech07 May 2024 | 22
The chip that changed my world – and yours
Opinion Zed 80 is dead baby, Zed 80 is dead.... vulture claws over the astounding tech
Systems29 Apr 2024 | 94
Google all at sea over rising tide of robo-spam
Opinion What if it's not AI but the algorithm to blame?
Security22 Apr 2024 | 39
Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins
Opinion Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must
SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 187
Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there's a get out of jail card
Opinion We've done it once, we can do it again
Public Sector08 Apr 2024 | 73
Apple's GoFetch silicon security fail was down to an obsession with speed
Opinion Ye cannae change the laws of physics, but you can change your mind
Security02 Apr 2024 | 23
Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare
Opinion Mistakes years in the making tell a universal story that must not be ignored
Cyber-crime25 Mar 2024 | 103
The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it
Opinion The web doesn’t work ‘cos the vandals used a candle
Networks18 Mar 2024 | 96
How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model
Opinion Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not
Databases11 Mar 2024 | 32
The federal bureau of trolling hits LockBit, but the joke's on us
Opinion When you can't lock 'em up, lock 'em out
Cyber-crime04 Mar 2024 | 27
The self-created risk in Broadcom's big VMware kiss-off
Opinion Arise, the new Migration Nation
Virtualization26 Feb 2024 | 28
Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable
Opinion Like the reality, the concept is blown up out of all proportion. So who launched it this time around?
Science19 Feb 2024 | 297
Forcing AI on developers is a bad idea that is going to happen
Opinion We’ve still got time to make it better before it does
AI + ML12 Feb 2024 | 45
That's not the web you're browsing, Microsoft. That's our data
Opinion The one thing you don't want your data security to be is, er, edgy
Software05 Feb 2024 | 77
That runaway datacenter power grab is the best news for net zero this century
Opinion We've been working on the solution for 70 years. It's there if we want it
On-Prem29 Jan 2024 | 120
The Post Office systems scandal demands a critical response
Opinion Never let a good crisis go to waste
Public Sector22 Jan 2024 | 191
The New ROM Antics – building the ZX Spectrum 128
Opinion If you think Sinclair’s hardware was odd, you haven’t met the people
Personal Tech15 Jan 2024 | 137
Open source's new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before
Opinion FOSS's license to exist depends on helping users. It has to learn to think that way
OSes08 Jan 2024 | 61
Biting the hand that feeds IT
