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What about trust and long-term relationships? ask Big Blue field engineers Exclusive IBM will ask Global Technology Services engineers to "rotate" from "existing assignments" every two years in a working model overhaul that some staff warned could weaken client relations.…

Forte-dot-co-dot-uk can still be yours for £15k-£20k A British domain name reseller has won an appeal against an American multinational that tried to have it stripped of a parked domain, having rebuffed an offer to sell the disputed moniker for up to £20,000.…

Time to start planning now, people! Chief information security officers (CISOs) must prepare for the ending of intel and law enforcement agreements with the EU post-Brexit, a report from Forrester has warned.…

Colleagues kindly told him error had him marked for death by angry drug cartel Who, me? Welcome again to “Who, me?”, The Register’s Monday muck-up in which readers recount their worst mistakes.…

In this weeks networking news, switches surged, Riverbed monitored and the MEF standardised Roundup Last week saw celebration in the IPv6 community this week – not because adoption is finally really taking off, but because, umm, look, something must have happened, right?…

It's the week's other AI news Roundup While we've already covered a lot of AI stories this week a few slipped under the radar so, as is traditional, here's the roundup of some news you may have missed.…

Also, Apple tightens up its certificate requirements Roundup This week brought new charges for Marcus Hutchins, a novel way to sneak malware into archives, and shady hotspots for World Cup fans.…

Deadline looms as Senators nudge House With the FCC's motion on ending net neutrality provisions set to be enacted in a matter of days, Senate Democrats want the House to put their resolution up for a last-minute vote.…

Microsoft: For goodness' sake, cover yourselves up. Nobody wants to see that The Windows 10 April 2018 Update has been out for over a month now, and the rumbling of user dissatisfaction continues. This time it's networking problems for users still clinging to the venerable SMB1 protocol.…

Chat app won't be part of Purple Palace's Oath chapter Yahoo! is set to discontinue its Messenger app in just over a month's time.…

America! FLOP yeah! The US is set to regain the crown for world's fastest computer – for the first time since 2012 – with the unveiling of the Summit supercomputer.…

A welcome break from GDPR and blockchain Artificial intelligence and machine learning - rather than Europe's General Data Protection Regulation – emerged as a key theme of the Infosecurity Europe Conference.…

EU mulls untangling giant vampire squid from your phone – report It's June, so it must be the season to fine Alphabet billions of euros. According to Reuters' sources, a second big fine will be imposed on Google's parent company next week by the European Commission, this time for abusing its dominance of smartphone platforms.…

Then says digitisation is working well... you sure, m'lud? England and Wales’ top judge has moaned that HM Courts and Tribunal Service’s (HMCTS) IT systems “more obviously belong in the Science Museum” than courtrooms across the land.…

Fish Are Friends! exclaim animal huggers on World Ocean Day Today is World Ocean Day! To celebrate, PETA has asked Mayor of Stockholm, Karin Wanngård, to maybe change a street name to something a bit more fish-friendly.…

Builds out server rackery, hyperconverged and converged systems lines Hitachi Vantara has updated more servers with Skylake processors and added variants with Optane SSD caching and Nvidia GPU support.…

Vengeance for poor security sins in face of cyber attack The Information Commissioner's Office has not so much rained fire and brimstone down the British and Foreign Bible Society as drizzled it with a £100,000 fine - after the personal data of 417,000 supporters was put at risk due to a cyber attack.…

Pimp my phone... for a price Motorola has extended its modular phone adventure for another year, with new devices compatible with its Mods expansion spec. Reports of cutbacks raised fears the ambitious initiative would be snuffed out.…

Warns that nation state hacking threatens corporate networks InfoSec Europe Former GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan has warned that the emergence of a commodity marketplace for hacking has changed and escalated the threat.…

Agenda revealed, blind bird tickets take flight We’re very very pleased to announce the speaker lineup for MCubed London 2018, our three-day machine learning, AI and data science extravaganza this October, and you can see it right here.…

Don't like sharing? Have your very own spot in the ad-slinger's data centre. For a fee Google has signalled it is getting more serious about this whole cloud thing with the beta availability of sole-tenant nodes in Google Compute Engine.…

Sapphire Now announcements focus on fluffy stuff, tout innovation potential SAP has used its annual conference to announce plans to release a private cloud deployment with IBM Cloud, offer up blockchain-as-a-service and bolster its Leonardo tool kit.…

Selling England by the pound Something for the Weekend, Sir? It's about to get wet. Have some towels ready.…

One more body on pile of 13,000 Hard pressed BT boss Gavin Patterson has agreed to leave the telco after five years in the role, with the group citing a "need for a change of leadership" following disappointing results and a flagging share price.…

Won't someone think of the chickens? British egg producers have expressed disappointment at the removal of the oval-shaped favourite from Google's salad emoji.…

Plans integration, not alteration, and promises no ‘swamp’ of ads GitHub’s future CEO Nat Friedman has conducted a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session and outlined a little of what Microsoft plans to do with the collaborative code locker once the acquisition is formalised and admitted that “if Microsoft screws this up, we will lose the trust of developers for a generation.”…

But there was a network tech inside, wiring it up. And in the right bank, this time On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register’s Friday forage through readers’ memories of tech support jobs that became FUBAR.…

We're spying on you all the time, so why cry over a missing quadcopter – Feds The US government is worried about its capacity for discrimination, at least with respect to drones.…

Organic material and methane finds can’t be tied to biological processes NASA’s Curiosity rover has again found evidence that Mars was potentially capable of hosting life.…

Fixed now, as Receiver 4.12 for Windows deprecates unsound ciphers, if you want The basic premise of the Citrix products-formerly-known-as Xen App and Xen Desktop is that they deliver applications and desktops more securely than is possible if you run them locally.…

Single-host systems with 30-day self-destruct switch should make for an easier on-ramp VMware’s recognised that running its stuff on Amazon Web Services costs a bomb, so has reduced prices for your initial forays.…

Mostly minus... as Republicans and Democrats seethe at deal The US government will let ZTE use American-made electronics again, as the result of a settlement following the Chinese smartphone-maker exporting technology to Iran and North Korea.…

Latest privacy gaffe is nothing if not impeccably timed Facebook is having to douse yet another privacy blaze – as the social network admitted to inadvertently setting some of its addicts' private posts to public, meaning anyone could read them.…

FlexPods get application layers, managed service – and more NetApp is adding application layers to its FlexPod stack, and developing a managed service version.…

I stand by my claims of 100,000-plus at-risk sites, says defiant security researcher Drupal is playing down estimates that more than 100,000 websites are still vulnerable to months-old critical security flaws in its content management system.…

Swelling batteries causes headache for Cupertino Apple has been hit by another lawsuit claiming faulty manufacturing, this time over its Apple Watch.…

Cloud giants prefer drinking direct from servers than having tequila SAN-rise cocktails The storage market was hot, hot, hot in the first quarter of this year – according to IDC's bean counters, who reckoned shipped capacity rose 79.1 per cent, year on year, to 98.8EB and revenues 34.4 per cent to $13bn.…

Looks like Elon has a lot more explaining and/or work to do A Tesla with Autopilot engaged accelerated toward a barrier in the final seconds before a deadly crash, an official report into the crash has revealed.…

Got to keep the purse-strings tight on that power budget, innit? Analysis HPE Advanced Technologies veep Mike Vildibill has told El Reg that power budget limitations will end the current supercomputer model of having multiple independent nodes passing chunks of data between them.…

The internet's screen door gets kicked open once again Adobe has kicked out an out-of-band update for a security vulnerability in Flash – after learning the bug was being actively exploited in the wild by hackers to hijack PCs.…

US ISP giant claims service has been restored for most users Updated After a day without service, Comcast has suggested its business voice customers restart their modems if they're still having connectivity problems.…

Landing, roving, cratering. What could possibly go wrong? Hopefully, nothing Boffins at Japan’s space agency, JAXA, announced Thursday that their asteroid sampling mission Hayabusa2 was within sight of its target, Ryugu, with arrival scheduled within the month.…

EU auditors also reckon universal 30Mbps unlikely Insanely ambitious plans by the EU to connect half of the households in member states to 100Mbps by 2020, have unsurprisingly fallen by the wayside - according to a report.…

Results are in for open-source data software slingers Open source data software slinger Cloudera dramatically slashed net losses in the first quarter of its fiscal new year but only after hacking away at a string of company expenses from R&D to staff costs.…

2021 maturity deadline gets GAO hot under the collar Britain's first permanently based F-35B fighter jets have arrived at RAF Marham in Norfolk – as a US auditor warns that the aircraft won't be deemed "mature" until the year 2021.…

Second Time Lucky Hands On Warm reviews and good wishes didn't help the newly formed BlackBerry Mobile sell bucket loads of phones in its first year, but a strong second attempt might.…

Final 'droid P APIs, latest system images With Google freezing the Android P APIs yesterday, both major mobile platforms have shown their hand for 2018. The freeze comes as Google released "Beta 2", which is really the third Developer Preview release of Android P issued so far.…

Accused of creating UPAS Kit and lying to FBI WannaCry ransomware killswitch hero* Marcus Hutchins faces fresh charges in relation to separate malware the security researcher is alleged to have created.…

Believe nobody except Aleksandr Kogan! Sketch A defiant Alexander Nix has told MPs the Cambridge Analytica (CA) scandal was caused by lying media and the only person to trust is the one who wrote the app that quietly harvested personal data on more than 80 million people.…

Chinos for the IT executive about town In an effort to reinvigorate a flaccid trouser marketplace, a Japanese fashion house has introduced a vaguely horrifying bit of detailing. Ladies and gentlemen, may we present the Wang Flap.…