Hundreds of thousands of devices managed by the UK's NHS are still running Windows 7. With the end of support looming, is the service about to have another Windows XP moment? Er, probably not. Figures obtained by virtualization vendor Citrix, under Blighty's Freedom of Information (FoI) regulations, would seem to paint a …

The four engineers fired by Google just before Thanksgiving for allegedly e-stalking co-workers have said they will file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board claiming they were subject to an illegal intimidation campaign. Laurence Berland, Paul Duke, Rebecca Rivers and Sophie Waldman, who worked at the tech …

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Something for the Weekend, Sir?Guess what I'm doing with my hands right now. Typing on the keyboard, obviously. I can't help it if "right now" for you represents a different point in the relative time-space continuum. Who knows what I will be doing with my hands once you get around to reading this? For me, right now, I'm still typing it. Talking of …

A 10-digit dollar loss for Q2, hundreds of millions in forecast revenue clipped for the second half of the fiscal year, the ownership of business units being reviewed, and an admission that years of redundancies came home to roost. DXC Technology CEO Mike Salvino – who was only confirmed in the role two months ago – last night …

Lawrence Jones, founder and boss of Manchester hosting provider UKFast, has stepped down while an internal investigation probes allegations of workplace sexual assault, harassment, and bullying made against him. UKFast sent us the following today: UKFast confirms that Lawrence Jones has stepped down as CEO and is taking a …

GitLab today had a change of heart after facing withering criticism for directing employees not to talk politics at work and declaring it would do business with any customer not banned by law regardless of moral considerations. In a series of git commits – the mechanism by which the company updates its documents – the code- …

Bosses worldwide will be rejoicing after a British academic declared that banning work email use out of hours could negatively effect underlings' mental health. The unwelcome news comes after a University of Sussex academic conducted a study which supported the idea of tailoring workplace email use policies around individual …

UpdatedGitLab, a San Francisco-based provider of hosted git software, recently changed its company handbook to declare it won't ban potential customers on "moral/value grounds," and that employees should not discuss politics at work. The policy addition, created by co-founder and CEO Sid Sijbrandij and implemented as a git pull …

Geek's Guide to BritainThe BT Centre is an unremarkable-looking building just north of St Paul's Cathedral, nine storeys of Portland stone with straight unadorned 1980s lines softened by curved corners. The headquarters of the UK's largest telco could be mistaken for an apartment block if it wasn't for the company's logo. BT Centre with st paul's …

The UK government needs to come up with an actual strategy to help businesses and workers take advantage of automation and robotics. So says the House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee's inquiry titled "Automation and the Future of Work". The MPs noted that automation had been an issue since …

Google has agreed to settle two complaints filed with the National Labor Relations Board by former employees who claim the company fired them from engaging in lawfully protected workplace speech. One of the former employees, Kevin Cernekee, claimed to have been dismissed in 2015 because of his conservative politics; Google …

Swedish distillery Mackmyra has released a whisky infused with the goodness of AI. Keen to reinforce workplace stereotypes, The Register went to check it out. We first noted Microsoft's foray into the world of whisky blending back in May, when early results of Redmond and Mackmyra's efforts were sampled. The distillery has …

Google may be lax in policing policy violating videos on YouTube, but at least it's adding oversight where it's needed – to mute overly opinionated employees. The ad biz, having weathered employee walkouts over payouts to execs accused of sexual harassment, protests over a censor-friendly search engine for China and US …

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AT&T staff were bribed $1m to slip the codes to unlock two million smartphones to a gang operating out of Pakistan, US prosecutors have claimed. When those telco workers took too long to cough up the codes, the crew bought copies of the employees' work login credentials and used them to go straight into the cellular giant's …

On CallWelcome back to On Call, a special corner of The Register where readers can share tales of their cries for help and the deaf ears on which they fall. Today's yarn, which includes a non-Linux-based solution to Active Directory woes, comes from a reader we shall call "Clive", who was struck with a run of bad luck at the hands of …

An ongoing age-discrimination lawsuit against IBM by one of its former star cloud salesmen has this week blown the lid off Big Blue's inner struggle to reinvent itself as a hip'n'cool place for millennials. Buried in court paperwork filed by lawyers acting on behalf of ex-IBMer Jonathan Langley, is, among other explosive …

Duncan Tait, the first non-Japanese exec to sit on Fujitsu's board and the man that rose to head up operations in Europe, Middle East, India, Africa (EMEIA) and the Americas, is leaving with immediate effect. The departure was confirmed by Takahito Tokita, representative director at president at Fujitsu, in a five-paragraph …

Something for the Weekend, Sir?I'm drowning in ballpoint pens. I mean this figuratively, of course. Let's just say I have an uncommonly large number of ballpoint pens available for my immediate use at the moment. How many? Ooh, several. Can you borrow one? No, get lost, find your own. The reason I suddenly find myself awash – figuratively, again – with so …