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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.

Bank of England FinOps help

Central bank keen to "improve consumption-based spend and reporting and to be able to "make strategic TCO decisions on location of workloads..."

Thales' $3.6 billion buyout of Imperva is timely...

Imperva, generating ~$500 million in revenues, has suffered from executive churn in recent years that has caused some “adverse impact on Imperva’s roadmap execution."

NetScaler vulnerability, CVE-2023-3519 IOCs

Attackers dropped a webshell, collected and exfiltrated Active Directory data, then ran into some healthy obstacles...

Meta Llama 2 free license open source

It is a generous and permissive licence, but prohibits the use of Llama to “improve any other large language model; excluding Llama 2” and users must request a special commercial licence if their product's MAU exceed 700 million.

Messaging Layer Security (MLS) standard published as RFC 9420 by the IETF

Here’s what you need to know about Messaging Layer Security (MLS) as it becomes an official standard in a move welcomed by AWS, Android, Cisco, Matrix and many more.

Eight years in, £2 billion spent, and nothing to show bar a big fat interoperability hole

Astonishingly the Home Office, already under pressure over interoperability challenges “does not know how many vendors provide" control room systems across 108 service stations...

UK corporate insolvencies spike to the highest levels since 2008

"Zombie companies are likely to be early casualties of rising interest rates. However, if their demise frees up staff and properties for use by more profitable companies, the long run effect could be a boost to UK productivity..."

Microsoft strengthens key storage after China incident – admits “validation error in Microsoft code”

Redmond has since "substantially hardened key issuance systems... this includes increased isolation of the systems, refined monitoring of system activity, and moving to the hardened key store used for our enterprise systems..."

Critical SonicWall vulnerabilities "extremely attractive" - central firewall hub needs urgent patching

Multiple critical unauthenticated SQL injection bugs and hard-coded credentials as well as command injection, and file upload bugs need urgent patching.

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