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Edward Targett

Edward Targett

Ed is co-founder of The Stack, He previously edited the late Computer Business Review, and earlier, Roubini Global Economics. He left school at 15 and has made a living asking "but why/how?" since.

equilend cybersecurity incident

"We are working methodically to restore the involved services as quickly as possible"

Stored procedures in Sybase-based applications that have become a "humungous monster" do not make that easy. One banking multinational is testing the switch to MongoDB...

MPs warn MoD over 42-year-old software, flag concern at Boeing’s “fat, juicy” contracts

"Crikey! I'll believe that when I see it."

Russian group hacks emails of Microsoft’s “senior leadership” and cybersecurity staff

"We will act immediately to apply our current security standards to Microsoft-owned legacy systems and internal business processes..."

vCenter Server vulnerability went exploited for two years unnoticed. Attacks are ongoing

There are no workarounds that remove the vulnerability, which allows unauthenticated remote command execution on vulnerable systems. A patch is available.

Llama 3 is in training – as Meta vows to add another 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to its infrastructure this year

Goldman Sachs CIO says "there’s a great opportunity for capital to move towards the application layer, the toolset layer. I think we will see that shift happening..."

“We’re not going to be chasing shiny objects” – What leaders at America’s biggest banks are saying about AI

"We’re starting to see multimodal AI models, and I think one modality that hasn’t been fully exploited yet is that of the time series. This would be using AI to deal with data points attached to a particular timestamp..."

UK’s spy agencies grapple with IT modernisation–  as GCHQ ramps up hacking capabilities

MI5 is off to the cloud; GCHQ is ramping up Computer Network Exploitation capabilities; MI6 needs cultural changes to get a new IT platform running smoothly...

citi layoffs

People take the hit to offset huge spending on tech, risk.

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