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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.

New NSA cybersecurity director Dave Luber (left)

As well as coming under immediate pressure on social media chatterati to be immediately amusing and bring his meme A-game, Luber faces other challenges too...

Rubrik IPO filinog

Data security and backup firm's SEC filing shows it sees a TAM of $36.3 billion by the end of 2024.

xz-utils Github repository disabled as Linux maintainers assess blast radius of backdoor, earlier commits

Incident suggests a state actor exploiting overstretched maintainer of an "unpaid hobby project"

Malicious backdoor, CVSS 10, slipped onto major Linux distributions

Poisoned Easter eggs for all: Apparent supply chain attack caught mercifully early…

redis fork valkey linux foundation

"Valkey will be community-driven without surprise license changes that break trust and disrupt a level open source playing field" says the Linux Foundation.

Atos carnage continues as CEO Nourdine Bihmane walks, company warns on liquidity

"Strategy misalignment"? There's been no shortage of that...

Memory is hot property amid AI boom, as Micron sells out of HBM through 2025

For LLMs “GPU RAM is actually one of our most valuable commodities. It's frequently the bottleneck, not compute…”

New Redis licence: No more BSD, more SSPL

The kiss of death for open-source Redis? A reasonable commercial decision? The end of a community?

Scoop: Fujitsu spilled private client data, passwords into the open unnoticed for a year

It takes a special kind of stupid to export a LastPass vault and dump it into a public bucket along with a bunch of AWS keys. How do these people win critical government contracts again, please?

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