The Register

Template:About Template:Short description Template:Use Oxford spelling Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox website Template:Italic title The Register is a British technology news website<ref name="TheRegister.NYT2005">Template:Cite news</ref> co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.<ref name="grossman">Template:Cite news</ref> The online newspaper's masthead sublogo is "Biting the hand that feeds IT." The publication's primary focus is information technology news and opinions.<ref name="TheRegister.Masthead">Template:Cite book</ref>

Situation Publishing Ltd is the site's publisher. Drew Cullen is an owner and Linus Birtles is the managing director. Andrew Orlowski was the executive editor before leaving the website in May 2019.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

History

The Register was founded in London as an email newsletter called Chip Connection. In 1998 The Register became a daily online news source. Magee left in 2001 to start competing publications The Inquirer, and later the IT Examiner and TechEye.<ref name="Walsh">Template:Cite book</ref>

In 2002, The Register expanded to have a presence in London and San Francisco, creating The Register USA at theregus.com through a joint venture with Tom's Hardware.<ref name="cullen2002">Template:Cite news</ref> In 2003, that site moved to theregister.com.<ref name="cullen2003">Template:Cite news</ref> That content was later merged onto theregister.co.uk. The Register carries syndicated content including Simon Travaglia's BOFH stories.<ref name="adams">Template:Cite book</ref>

In 2010 The Register supported the successful launch of the Paper Aircraft Released into Space, a project they announced in 2009 that released a paper plane in the extreme upper atmosphere.<ref name="project-bbc-coverage">Template:Cite news</ref>

The Register also ran the websites Register Hardware and Channel Register, which merged into The Register.

Readership and content

In 2011 it was read daily by over 350,000 users according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations,<ref name="abc2011">Template:Cite web</ref> rising to 468,000 daily and nearly 9.5 million monthly in 2013.<ref name="abc2012">Template:Cite web</ref> In November 2011 the UK and US each accounted for approximately 42% and 34% of page impressions respectively, with Canada being the next most significant origin of page hits at 3%.<ref name="abc2011" /> In 2012 the UK and US accounted for approximately 41% and 28% of page impressions respectively, with Canada at 3.61%.<ref name="abc2012" />

Channel Register covers computer business and trade news, which includes business press releases. News and articles for computer hardware and consumer electronics are covered by Reg Hardware. Reg Research is an in-depth resource on technologies and how they relate to business.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Their stories are cited by major news sources<ref name="TheRegister.NYT2012">Template:Cite news</ref> and also used for backup information.<ref name=TheRegister.NYT2005/><ref>"See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016 ... Template:Cite magazine Template:Dead link</ref> Stories in other periodicals were based on their exposés.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> For instance, InformationWeek ran a story about The RegisterTemplate:'s story, as used as the source for a New York Times article.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

In September 2018, the Alexa ranking was #7,194.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

National Archives and Records Administration has archived part of the Web site.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Writers

The Register has an editorial staff of 16 writers and production experts.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Chris Williams is editor-in-chief. Paul Kunert is UK editor, Iain Thomson is US news editor and Simon Sharwood is Asia-Pacific editor. Columnists include Mark Pesce and Rupert Goodwins.

Intel chips flaw investigation

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On 6 February 2017, The Register linked a clock signal issue in Cisco hardware to a serious defect on Intel's Atom C2000 series processors.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Around 3 January 2018, The Register broke news about Google's long-ongoing investigation into Intel's processor design, which revealed that a serious flaw in the design of their chips would require Microsoft, Apple, and Linux developers to release patches for their operating systems.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Criticism

On 12 October 2010 Martin Robbins of The Guardian accused The Register of misunderstanding climate science and misrepresenting a paper from the journal Nature in a manner that deliberately minimized the climate impact of human emissions.<ref name="BuffGuard">Template:Cite web</ref> The Register published its "amusingly put-out 'responseTemplate:'" the same day.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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