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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: IBM's Jamie Thomas

From responding to Meltdown to overseeing CISOs and services

As VMware and Siemens’ spat turns ugly, what CIOs need to look out for on the licensing front

"Many vendors also have slightly different licensing rules around non-production environments, and SAM tools do not have the capability to detect server environments without manual configuration, or by connecting them to a company's CMDB to gather that data..."

MI6 appoints technology chief as first female leader

Her appointment comes amid deep parliamentary concern that there is “£3 billion of public money being spent for which there is no oversight capability.”

Michelin swaps VMware service for open source Kubernetes

"We have to make sure we’re building a team where people are happy to work"

The Stack  | Jun 12, 2025
The Stack 2.0

Oh lord not another ******* paywall? Wait, come back. We have big ideas!

 |  Databases  | Jun 11, 2025
Postgres is popping off

Databricks and Snowflake alike have bought Postgres providers. Why the flurry of action?

Patch Tuesday: Another MSHTML zero day exploited

Attackers are going after high-profile targets in the government and defense sectors, with phishing campaigns that use WebDAV and LOLBins to deploy malware

"Absurd" 12-step malware dropper spotted in malicious npm packages

Supply chain attack effort used steganography, a "dizzying wall of Unicode characters" and more.

Apple just savaged LLM reasoning claims (again)

"Complex problems exhibit consistently near-zero accuracy, indicating complete reasoning failure"

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