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Publication: The Register

The Register has ^61.4% among publications. BS Score: 2.4%. Articles analyzed: 4. Words analyzed: 6,456.

Top reasoning patterns

Biased Writer Voice - 11.2% (724 hits)
Negativity Bias - 8.2% (531 hits)
Hasty Generalization - 6.1% (395 hits)
Optimism Bias - 4.9% (319 hits)
Confirmation Bias - 4.5% (288 hits)
Anecdotal - 4.3% (279 hits)
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service - 3.6% (232 hits)
Unattributed Quote - 3.2% (209 hits)

Analyzed articles

User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC ^20.3%

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

Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track ^24.1%

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

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it ^28%

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

SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI ^38.8%

The Register - By Lindsay Clark - 7/2/2026, 4:01 PM

Attempt to Sell a Product or Service 31.9% - Optimism Bias 27.2% - Appeal to Authority 26.4%

SAP is cutting hiring and business travel to boost its investment in AI amid intensifying competition in the enterprise application market. According to an internal email, SAP is set to "exclusively focus new hiring on selected profiles only, mainly core AI roles, that are critical for our long-term success." The missive, seen by... more

Publication: The Register

Top reasoning patterns

Analyzed articles

User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC 20.3%

Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track 24.1%

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it 28%

SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI 38.8%

User swore hacker called General Failure had invaded his PC ^20.3%

Failed blockchain project ends with big fine for fibs about it being on track ^24.1%

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it ^28%

SAP snaps wallet shut for travel and hiring so it can keep shoveling cash into AI ^38.8%