Ed Targett

London

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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Articles

Don’t backdoor encryption

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

It’s episode #7850281 of security researchers imploring governments not to backdoor encryption because duh. Cybersecurity experts and civil society organisations have urged the European Commission (EC) to rethink its plans to backdoor encryption.
Satya pledges MCP natively in Windows; Red Teamers drool

2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

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The Big Interview: BNY CIO Leigh-Ann Russell

2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

BNY CIO Leigh-Ann Russell’s first job after school was in a bank. She hated it: “I had to stamp cheques every day; thousands of them. I’d get to 1,500 stamps, and then I'd forget the number, and I have to start it all again. It just wasn't my dream of how I would spend my life” she tells The Stack. Russell grew up in a council estate in Scotland. Her dad worked a manual role during the week, and at a fish-and-chip shop at the weekends.
Customer failed to listen, toasted copper cables

2 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

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AI go "brrrrrr" to help ditch legacy tech?

3 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

Want to peel yourself away from VMware, mainframes, or ditch legacy .NET applications? There’s now a whole bunch of AI agents to help.
Sony turns to Kubernetes, eyes back-end integration

3 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

Sony plans to make its Playstation Network platform the cornerstone of a newly integrated technology architecture its CEO revealed – praising its “robust network infrastructure” despite a trio of major outages in late ‘24 and early ‘25 that the company’s engineers say they have learned from.
Post Office plans fresh £410m Fujitzu Horizon migration

3 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

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Saudi Arabia splashes the cash on NVIDIA hardware

3 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

To those who remember that dissident Jamal Khashoggi was killed and dismembered within seven minutes of entering a Saudi Arabian consulate in 2019, the name of the kingdom’s AI fund may conjure up a dry chuckle.
"Cloud dissatisfaction" is on the rise, says Gartner

3 weeks ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

A quarter of organisations will have experienced “significant dissatisfaction with their cloud adoption by 2028, due to unrealistic expectations, suboptimal implementation and/or uncontrolled costs.” Get the full story: Subscribe for free Get the story, a weekly newsletter (you can turn that off if you want) and support independent journalism. Subscribe today.
AWS takes the egress hit as DHH actually exits the cloud

1 month ago | thestack.technology | Ed Targett

AWS has waived a $250,000 data egress bill for a company abandoning its S3 cloud storage environment in favour of an on-premises Pure Storage flash array – making good on a March 5, 2024 promise for all customers.