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The Stack is a fresh business technology publication that started in 2020. Our main focus is on digital transformation across various industries, exploring how technology can give organizations a competitive and sustainable advantage in a fast-evolving environment. We are dedicated to showcasing the experiences and stories of senior IT professionals, featuring interviews with CIOs, CDOs, CISOs, and others in leadership roles. Our readers can look forward to frequent news updates, expert guest insights, and detailed feature articles aimed at fostering a community of IT practitioners by sharing knowledge, case studies, and industry news.

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Internet Explorer haunts Windows with RCE

22 hours ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer

Microsoft has pushed patches for a trio of critical Azure vulnerabilities including a maximum CVSS 10 bug in the self-hosted DevOps Server suite and a CVSS 9.9 bug in its Azure Automation cloud management service. The trio of critical Azure vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-29827, CVE-2025-29813, CVE-2025-29972) have all been patched by Microsoft with no user interaction required. None are known to have been exploited in the wild and all were found during internal testing, Redmond said.
NHS asks KPMG for help getting digitalisation over the line

1 day ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer

NHS Trusts struggling to reach the government’s deadline for introducing electronic patient records (EPR) systems by next year will be offered "Tiger Team" support from KPMG to help, a new contract shows. 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.
Saudi Arabia splashes the cash on NVIDIA hardware

1 day 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.
M&S confirms customer details were stolen in cyber attack

1 day ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer

The personal data of customers at major UK retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) was accessed during its recent cyber attack, the company confirmed as it informed millions of the breach. Data on customer names, contact details, home addresses and “‘masked’ payment card details” was accessed by the ransomware attackers, linked by some to the international Scattered Spider network of actors.
"Cloud dissatisfaction" is on the rise, says Gartner

1 day 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.
Microsoft throws weight behind Google's A2A AI protocol

2 days ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer

Microsoft will back Google’s open Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol with support for multiple products as the AI communication standard continues to gain steam. The protocol, designed to allow cooperation between AI Agents on different platforms, will be supported on Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio in public preview.
Barclays on staying tech literate in a regulated industry

2 days ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer

With banking roots going back to the 1690s, Barclays has no shortage of “legacy” technology that it is chipping away at – mercifully none of it over 300 years old. The bank decommissioned 210 applications in 2024 and aims to get rid of over 500 by 2026. The big idea: Cut costs, reduce friction, and better serve both internal and external customers.
Fancy replacing the UK's old firearms database? Here's £17m

2 days ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer

An outdated 20-year-old national firearms database for police in England and Wales may finally be getting a replacement as a £17 million contract goes out to tender, three years after plans were first revealed. The National Firearms Licensing Management System (NFLMS) will be run by the Police Digital Services agency, replacing a system built in the mid-2000s and riddled with issues ever since.
HMG's "severe" security gaps risk continued cyberattacks

5 days ago | thestack.technology | Noah Bovenizer

Cyberattacks will continue disrupting UK public services if the government doesn’t U-turn on a ‘severe underestimation’ of its vulnerabilities, a group of MPs has warned in yet another damning report on the issue. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) found “substantial gaps” in the public sector’s resilience to a cyber attack, citing a hoard of legacy systems and poor security culture leaving the government “far from where it needs to be” on cybersecurity.
The most important view of the moon? The one that comes through your dashboard

6 days ago | thestack.technology | Joe Fay

We’ve all seen the footage of lunar landings. The Earth’s original satellite looms larger and larger, the craters getting closer, the surface eventually filling the screen, then…touch down. But that’s not what the mission control teams necessarily sees. And it’s certainly not what they’re focused on. Their eyes will be fixed on the stream of data from every onboard system that tells them what is happening, and whether the mission is on track.