Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

  • Murdoch and Mythology

    Murdoch and Mythology

    by

    Andrew Orlowski

    –

    Keyser Sose If children didn’t believe in Santa, thousands of grown men wouldn’t dress up in fur-trimmed red jumpsuits, put on false beards, and give children unwanted gifts in tents every year. Perhaps some would, but they’d probably be arrested. For the past fortnight, TV and newspaper editors in the UK have pushed aside stories…

    Continue reading »

  • ,

    Len Sassaman

    by

    Andrew Orlowski

    –

    Len Sassaman, a cryptographer and security researcher of high repute, has died aged 31. Sassaman maintained the Mixmaster remailer and he contributed to various other privacy projects, including OpenPGP. He also co-founded the annual CodeCon conference with Bram Cohen. He was security researcher and doctoral student at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven. Len was a…

    Continue reading »

  • The Cube: Apple’s daftest, strangest romance

    The Cube: Apple’s daftest, strangest romance

    by

    Andrew Orlowski

    –

    Ten years ago on Sunday, Apple called it quits on one of its oddest products ever, the G4 Cube. The Cube was a strange and wonderful machine that continues to fascinate today – but it was widely perceived to have failed. Some people thoroughly enjoyed the failure, thinking it served Apple right. Dull people will…

    Continue reading »

  • Captain Cyborg: Computers are alive, like bats or cows

    by

    Andrew Orlowski

    –

    Self-harming attention-seeker Kevin Warwick has admitted to snooping on the public in a previous life. Warwick made the creepy confession on Radio 4, recalling an earlier job as a GPO engineer: “I remember taking ten different calls and plugging them all together; one call would continue, the other nine would listen in. Then I’d patch…

    Continue reading »

  • HP vs Oracle: IT’s nastiest ever row?

    by

    Andrew Orlowski

    –

    It has never been smooth sailing on the good ship Itanic, but now the processor is at the centre of a poisonous row, one that’s as nasty as any I can recall in years of tech reporting Read more at The Register…

    Continue reading »

  • Button it, Bob

    Button it, Bob

    by

    Andrew Orlowski

    –

    More hysterical shrieking reaches us about Apple’s new music feature, I’m afraid. Earlier this week a lone lawyer said that iTunes Match, which populates an online store with songs you already have, encourages infringement. Well, this one is even nuttier. It’s actually so spectacularly muddle-headed, I thought it might be is a good time to…

    Continue reading »