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Ed Targett

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Founder and Editorial Director at The Stack

Founder: The Stack. Is this technology alphabet soup nutritious? Not a soupçon of mischief or disclaimer in sight. Signal @ thestack.01

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  • 1 week ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

    Astronomer, fresh from landing a $93 million Series D round in May, is expanding fast – including in the UK where it has opened a new office to serve as its EMEA HQ. The company provides a managed Apache Airflow service dubbed “Astro” among other offerings, helping customers like Adobe, Marriott, Sonos handle some of the gnarly “DataOps” that underpins not just AI efforts but broader work to improve data pipelines.

  • 1 week ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

    It may not have the cachet of the public cloud (the digital transformation Ted talk trifecta of APIs, containers, cloud doesn’t usually have “private” highlighted in it) – and you don’t see many CIOs proudly touting their “journey” to the private cloud, but it is, in one shape or form, a major component of most large IT estates and AI is boosting its attractiveness. VMware is looking to nail the private cloud experience with its new Virtual Cloud Platform (VCF 9) suite.

  • 1 week ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

    A range of ransomware groups have been seen spoofing IT support numbers or abusing default Teams credentials in social engineering attacks over the past 18 months.

  • 1 week ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

    Jamie Thomas was put in charge of IBM’s global security function after she was tasked with handling its response to the Meltdown/Spectre chip vulnerabilities that rocked the semiconductor industry in 2018 – a role she tells The Stack “came to me because of my background in hardware and software delivery, as well as the security of hardware and software.” How she came to own security is our first question when we sit down to speak, because the IBM veteran has a somewhat unusual remit; as...

  • 1 week ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

    Salesforce has told the Kubernetes community – with a week’s notice – that it will stop supporting a custom Slack environment for the project. “Slack has been a long-time supporter of the Kubernetes ecosystem. “However, the scale of the Kubernetes community has put strains on Slack's infrastructure. This week, they let the CNCF Projects staff know that they cannot continue to host us the same way,” the CNCF posted.

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Ed Targett
Ed Targett @editortargett
6 Jun 25

CVSS 9.9. Static credentials. In your cloud. Cisco WTF, again? https://t.co/aXhimSPaMV #cisco #infosec

Ed Targett
Ed Targett @editortargett
23 May 25

The Trump Administration is trying bankrupt or break @Harvard. You might be amused by Trump, or support his onshoring efforts. But this a textbook case of authoritarianism. That's the sound of the constitution being shredded. Read #Harvard's response. https://t.co/lS57oxERJN

Ed Targett
Ed Targett @editortargett
22 May 25

RT @RALee85: A field with fiber optic cables left behind by expended FPVs. https://t.co/9n7KYKw6fg https://t.co/98WXQGkOpn