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Edward Targett

Edward Targett

Ed is a co-founder of The Stack. He previously edited Computer Business Review. He has also covered energy markets. He started his journalism career on local papers. He left school at 15 and has made a living asking "but why?" ever since.

The Big Interview: Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball

On BYOC, the economics of agentic traffic, and “bastardised” Postgres wrappers

IBM: Everyone’s still loving mainframes, OK?

Big Iron ELAs are treated as CapEx, says CFO, hence the brief hit, but deals are closing.

OpenAI has tough questions to answer on Hugging Face attack

'We can't build a secure sandbox nor monitor our own model tests properly' is not a flex - and Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf has views

Hugging Face hacked: Turned to Chinese LLM for help after US models blocked Blue Team

Expensive, proprietary US models were no help to Hugging Face’s defenders, and free Chinese ones were; that’s a warning sign.

Superpowered spreadsheets? SAP closes buyout of tabular AI startup Prior Labs

"Most of the world's valuable data still sits in spreadsheets and databases. [This] will do for structured data what LLMs have done for unstructured"

AWS hits customers with quadrillion dollar bills

Panic-Attacks-as-a-Service

Netflix dumps gRPC for SSE, eyes more AI

Any company that decides to build a graph database alternative on Cassandra probably has novel ideas worth listening to...

Microsoft blockbuster Patch Tuesday shows the vulnpocalypse has landed

Windows admins now have more than 630 new vulnerabilities to patch. Good luck!

Diamond chains and “GDIDs:" How this alleged Scattered Spider member got busted

“A Microsoft device identifier (a Global Device ID, or GDID, described below) associated with STOKES is linked to the .168 address”

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