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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.

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Competition watchdog goes from a host of worries to a shrug.

The Big Interview: CISA’s $7 billion CDM program aims to run pan-federal cybersecurity. Is it delivering?

"We have gotten very smart on how to do business with agencies and build in flexibility into our contracting vehicles. We took an approach early on to divide and conquer..."

Tech titans team up to rethink Ethernet, from the physical to the software layer, and beyond

"The new era needs a new network as performant as a supercomputing interconnect, as ubiquitous and cost-effective as Ethernet [and] as scalable as a cloud data center"

CVE for “Damn Vulnerable Web Application” rejected after troubling, bemusing hackers

"To the 731 people who have DVWA exposed to the internet, I apologise for CVE-2023-39848, I recommend you temporarily remove them from the internet till I can create a patch."

HashiCorp’s “poison pill” shift away from open source triggers call for Terraform foundation

Now over 300 companies and individuals are calling for HashiCorp to reverse its decision or see Terraform forked and the community decamp...

Censorship by hallucination? US educators are using AI to find and ban books with sex in them

Among the books pulled from one library are National Medal of Arts and Presidential Medal of Freedom-winner Maya Angelou's autobiography, Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaiden's Tale"

MongoDB takes “Queryable Encryption” wizardry GA -- say it has improved latency, useability

The set of client-side libraries and server-side code lets applications encrypt sensitive fields in documents, so they remain encrypted while the server processes them; clever...

DWP contact centres

One DWP contact centre services provider reported a shocking 173 SLA breaches in a single year....

RTGS outage

The worst RTGS outage in nearly a decade was resolved without too much loss of hair but will renew enthusiasm for a core settlement engine replacement due in 2024...

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