Author: Simon Sharwood
Simon Sharwood
has 34.2% among authors.
BS Score: 2.4%.
Articles analyzed: 3.
Words analyzed: 5,016.
Analyzed articles
The Register
- By Simon Sharwood
- 7/3/2026, 6:30 AM
Optimism Bias 18.3% - Anecdotal 17.5% - Biased Writer Voice 16.7%
ON CALL Fronting up to work on Friday morning can feel like a mistake, but The Register tries to make it worthwhile by bringing you a new installment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Lee" who told us about his time as sysadmin at the headquarters... more
The Register
- By Simon Sharwood
- 7/3/2026, 4:35 AM
Biased Writer Voice 19.4% - Negativity Bias 13.3% - Unattributed Quote 13.1%
The attempt by Australia’s Securities Exchange (ASX) to replace its core trading platform with a blockchain-based system has ended with an A$20.5 million fine ($14.2 million/£10.6 million), further humiliation after the project flopped. The ASX runs a platform called the Clearing House Electronic Subregister System (CHESS) to process and... more
The Register
- By Simon Sharwood
- 7/3/2026, 2:22 AM
Biased Writer Voice 31.4% - Confirmation Bias 17.9% - Negativity Bias 17.6%
Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service, and not even AI can save it. Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing marketplace that allows users to post gigs, and workers to bid for the chance to do them. The service's name references an 18th-century machine that its inventor claimed... more