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Flying high in the wave-riding Perlan 2 The Perlan 2 unpowered glider is on course to soar to a record-breaking 90,000ft (27,400m) next year, following a successful first test flight last week at a more modest 5,000ft (1,500m).…

Hold on, can you stay on for six weeks? We forgot about this extra work Capita has “invited” O2 call centre staff with one eye on the exit to stick around for a little longer, and the resulting excitement at such a prospect is palpable.…

Prez hopeful bigs up her part in protecting the US from the terror of inadequate IT US presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina has boasted that HP sold the NSA servers that allowed the agency to build a system for mass surveillance.…

But despite the hype, Cupertino’s latest efforts don’t entirely satisfy Review This is the tock in Apple’s two-year hardware cycle, last year’s iPhone 6 and its oversized "Plus" companion having been the tick.…

Postulate, formulate, negotiate Our very own Tim Phillips and analyst Tony Lock postulate on the future of tech infrastructure and explore some of the changes you might need to make to cope with the next five years.…

Northern England suffering broadband outage since Monday Sky has 'fessed up to broken fibre cables as being the cause of an outage in the north west, which has knocked a number of broadband and phone customers offline since Monday.…

Canadian outfit D-Wave Systems signs 'largest' deal its history NASA and Google have signed a seven-year deal with D-Wave Systems to install its new 1,000 qubit processor machines.…

Patents and people could have prompted the buy EMC’s DSSD unit bought a stealth-mode startup developing an ultra-high performance flash array in August this year.…

Raking over dead file virtualisation ashes ... could the flames return? Data management and storing startup Peaxy aims to provide a Big Data analytics tool that locates and gives you access to data where ever it is.…

And the man responsible for doing it is now in charge of Outlook Comment Microsoft can often resemble a heavily armed octopus trying to shoot itself in the head. But even after 25 years of watching Redmond's finest, it still has the capacity to astonish us with the imaginative ways it can screw things up. It gave us another example last week.…

Claims he was unaware of the ‘defeat device’ Volkswagon's former CEO, Martin Winterkorn, has come under investigation by the German state attorney.…

More grunt to its HR elbow IBM is beefing up its human resources software roster by buying Meteorix, a Boston MA reseller with more than 200 Workday consultants. Financial terms are undisclosed.…

Other MNOs couple up in the UK market European telco Liberty Global and Vodafone have put the kibosh on their possible merger, the mobile network operator announced late Monday.…

Elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities found in popular encryption system Google Project Zero hacker James Forshaw has found a pair of privilege-elevation holes in the once-popular TrueCrypt encryption package. The bugs have been patched in spinoff app Veracrypt.…

Yes, we spied, but we clearly know more about the law than this Euro law-talking guy The US government has responded to Europe's top lawyer, who last week said sending people's private data to the United States is illegal.…

Hackers make 55,416 logins to MRIs, defibrillator honeypots Derbycon Thousands of critical medical systems – including Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines and nuclear medicine devices – that are vulnerable to attack have been found exposed online.…

Thunder? That's not thunder, that's the sound of international drug smuggling A 26lbs bundle of cannabis appeared from the sky and bombed through the roof of a carport in the Arizona town of Nogales.…

Another day, another small deal to beef up Redmond’s portfolio Microsoft has picked over the “key product and technology assets” of Adxstudio, a long-time Dynamics CRM and application development partner.…

Walk this way – 'cause if you don't, the phone will die It won't surprise you at all to know that the US government is keenly interested in the idea of self-destructing electronics.…

Don't have techs to spare anyhow Technology pundits were left scratching their heads yesterday when Telstra walked away from bidding for up to A$56 billion in NBN fibre build contracts.…

It's a wonder the 'net works at all, really A bit of “quality, non-glamorous engineering” could give a bunch of Linux servers a boost by addressing an unnoticed bug in a congestion control algorithm.…

Broadcom explains DPoE to El Reg Google's fibre initiatives haven't just prodded the US cable operators to respond in kind, gigabit for gigabit – it's also driving standards.…

Keep your eyes peeled; it could be as soon as next week A well-informed storage industry source with close ties to startups suggests that Pure's IPO could happen as early as next week – yes, the one beginning Monday, October 5.…

Uni prof goes public with two-year-old bug A bit of code-work is all it takes to sidestep one of Google's key AdSense protection mechanisms.…

One is for small biz and the other is for enterprise providers EMC introduced its scale-out ScaleIO Node virtual SAN a couple of weeks ago, with hybrid flash-disk and all-flash server chassises. It overlaps as a product with EMC-owned VMware's VSAN, and therefore EMC's EVO:RAIL implementation of that, and also competes with scale-out all-flash arrays.…

Republican prez candidate a hit among thieves. Trump Hotel Collection has confirmed in a letter to customers that IT security at one of its Las Vegas hotels was breached.…

Flash flambé feared Screenshot Some Apple iPhone 6S Plus owners are complaining that their new handsets get too hot – with one bod yelling that the LED flash shuts down.…

So are QR codes. No, really QR codes are now officially part of the Internet of Things hype-cycle.…

Risky maneuver could see it served a hefty tax bill someday Yahoo! says it's going to press ahead with its plan to spin off its multibillion-dollar stake in Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba, despite failing to receive a favorable ruling from the US Internal Revenue Service.…

We see you just went on holiday. Would you like another one tomorrow? Companies can upload your email address to Google so when the internet goliath detects you surfing across the web, it can throw better-targeted adverts at you.…

Redmond announces second major financial reporting change in three years In Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's latest move to dismantle the legacy of his predecessor, Steve Ballmer, the software giant has announced that it's changing its financial reporting structure ... again.…

Two slightly different A9 processor brains made for new mobes Apple is using two slightly different A9 processors from two suppliers – TSMC and Samsung – in its new iPhone 6S.…

Euro probe studies two rocks for the price of one Pics Findings from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe solved the riddle of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's unusual shape. They have proof that the comet is in fact two planetary bodies joined at the hip.…

What. People covet a BlackBerry again? Analysis BlackBerry loyalists may despair – but for the first time in a very long time, BlackBerry has been showered with praise for a new device.…

Former boss stuck fingers in ears and decided to do it anyway, it appears Leo Apotheker of former HP fame ignored warnings from his own board and shareholders about the ill-fated $11.1bn Autonomy acquisition that resulted in a $8.8bn write-down and allegations of accountancy fraud, a cache of internal emails suggests.…

Four leading politicians pull out stick, try to jam it into DNS biz's spokes Four leading Congressional figures, including US presidential candidate Ted Cruz, have questioned whether the Obama Administration has the legal right to transfer control of the internet's key technical functions outside the US government.…

US watchdog drags Roca Labs to court over Ts and Cs A US watchdog is suing a health biz that allegedly used its the terms and conditions on its diet powder to silence disgruntled customers.…

Doth Redmond protest too much? Is Windows 10 spying on you by grabbing all sorts of personally identifying data about you without your permission? Not at all, claims Redmond.…

Total Inability To See Uninspiring Posts Updated Bosses cheered worldwide as Facebook.com fell over once again, forcing people to put down their phones, close their private-browsing tabs, and do some work. Yes, even if it is Monday.…

All Volkswagen brands now under the spotlight The fallout from Volkswagen's use of software to cheat on emissions tests is spreading: Audi and Skoda (both of which are owned by VW) admit that some of their cars carry the dodgy code.…

Swedish swashbuckler sprung from Scandanavian cellblock Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been released from prison in Sweden following three years behind bars, we're told.…

Whistleblower's pals want govts to sign up to new treaty NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has backed calls to make privacy a basic human right.…

Record sales of iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus lead to avaricious Cook outburst Apple has sold more than 13 million new iPhones in just three days, the company crowed announced on Monday.…

Californians already booking space flights Pics NASA has had the space community on tenterhooks for the last week, and on Monday made its big reveal – there is liquid water on Mars.…

And yes, it’ll feature analytics as a service Microsoft will later this year release its open-source friendly lake for big-data analytics in the cloud.…

Will someone please think of the customers The future of Stone Computers will be decided by a High Court judge who could rule to place the entire group of companies into administration, or simply rubber stamp the proposed pre-pack deal.…

Like spinning plates. With meals on them Here’s the big challenge for companies wanting to excel at software delivery: how can you foster fast development and rollouts of software tools, while supporting new deployment platforms, such as hybrid cloud environments? There’s a lot to juggle, and it won’t be easy. DevOps can help.…

Chinese quite keen on the EU’s export market, presumably The EU and China have pledged to work hand in hand on rolling out the next generation of mobiles and mobile networks.…