The Register

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The Register
Biting the hand that feeds IT
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languages English
operator Situation Publishing
programming language Pearl
On-line 1994 (currently active)
https://www.theregister.co.uk/

The Register (also El Reg called) is a British news - web site with a focus on information technology . The site is owned by Situation Publishing .

history

The Register was founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettics as a newsletter . In 1998 it became a website.

The Register USA was founded in 2002 as a joint venture with Tom's Hardware . Based in San Francisco , the site can be reached at theregus.com. The offshoot was later merged with theregister.co.uk.

In 2009 the Paper Aircraft Released Into Space project was announced. In 2010 it successfully dropped a paper airplane in the upper atmosphere.

Content

The website mainly deals with technical news and information. The target group is primarily made up of scientists , but there are also many readers who are interested in technology.

Among other things, topics such as hardware and software, artificial intelligence and technical services are dealt with, but you can also find information about transport such as trains, planes or bridges on the website. The Register also takes on content according to the syndication principle, such as the BOFH stories by Simon Travaglia .

Range

In 2013 the site had around 470,000 readers a day. The USA had the most hits (47%) , followed by 18.5% from the UK and 5.52% from Canada .

Reports of vulnerabilities in Intel processors

On January 2, 2018, The Register made public that Google had been researching Intel's processor designs for a long time and discovered serious security flaws in the process. These had to be bypassed at the operating system level , which made software updates necessary.

controversy

On October 7, 2010, the climate change denier Lewis Page published an article in the register with the heading “ Much of recent global warming actually caused by Sun ” (German: “Most of the recent global warming actually caused by the sun”). Martin Robbins then criticized the newspaper in The Guardian for failing to make it clear that the fluctuations are cyclical and that they were already known to exist: The sun's 11-year cycles regularly heat the earth during part of the cycle, but cool it during the other part similarly off again. The scientific article hypothesizes that the cycles behave the other way around than normally assumed. In contrast to the implications of the register, however, they do not contradict the scientific consensus on man-made global warming. Robbins continues to criticize the register for its repeated use of the word “ boffin ”, a derogatory term for a scientist who “ common at the random-USE-of-CAPITALS end of tabloid journalism ” (German: “in the tabloid journalism of the brand arbitrary-USE -of-CAPITAL LETTERS is common "). In an answer in the register, Page defended his headline as technically correct and wrote “ down here at the random-use-of-capitals end of tabloid journalism, Mr Robbins, we DON'T CARE what YOU THINK.” ”(German:“ here in the brand's tabloid journalism, arbitrary-use-of-capital letters DOESN'T CARE what YOU THINK. ")

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What's this thing running? . Retrieved August 25, 2018.
  2. ^ The Register Forums . Retrieved on August 25, 2018: "Welcome to El Reg forums"
  3. ↑ a b c About The Register ( en ) The Register. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ How online journalism got its UK start . In: Press Gazette , Wilmington Media Ltd, June 2, 2006. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013. 
  5. ^ Bob Walsh, Clear Blogging: How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them. Apress, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59059-691-3 (English).
  6. ^ Drew Cullen: The Register Comes to the US ( en ) In: The Register . February 25, 2002. Archived from the original on December 15, 2004.
  7. ↑ Drew Cullen: theregister.com goes live ( s ) in: The Register . February 24, 2003. Archived from the original on December 16, 2004.
  8. ↑ Paper plane launched into space captures Earth images ( en ) BBC News. November 11, 2010. Retrieved November 15, 2010.
  9. ↑ a b About The Register. Retrieved February 24, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Andrew A. Adams, Rachel McGrindle: Pandora's Box: Social and Professional Issues of the Information Age. John Wiley & Sons , 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-06553-2 (English).
  11. ^ The Register ( en , pdf) Audit Bureau of Circulations Limited. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  12. ↑ Chris Williams: Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign ( en ) In: The Register . January 2, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
  13. ↑ Jane Wakefield: Major flaw in millions of Intel chips (en-GB) . In: BBC News , 2018. 
  14. ↑ Martin Robbins: One climate paper, two conflicting headlines (en-GB) . In: The Guardian , October 12, 2010. 
  15. ↑ Lewis Page: Guardian super-blogger flames Reg boffinry desk ( en ) October 12, 2010. Retrieved April 29, 2017.

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