MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps [Wed Oct 9 2019]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 9 October 2019 ***************************************************************** MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps Still, it could be worse, you could be one of cloud slinger's Venezuelan customers ***************************************************************** Business * Remember the FBI's promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US citizens? Well, guess what… Turns out the Feds make the CIA and NSA actually look good * Virtual inanity: Solution to Irish border requires data and tech not yet available, MPs told Also reliant on HMRC's shaky Customs Declaration Service * If you thought Windows Insiders was lacking a little in the leadership department, it is now 'Chief NinjaCat' Dona Sarkar heads off to world of Developer Relations * Heavy data protection regulation looms in Labour plans for post-Brexit flows and IoT devices Westminster Hall debate shows parties in harmony over sticking their oar in Data Centre * Plusnet is doing us proud again with early Christmas present for customers: Price hikes That'll give them something else to moan about * Spain's Cellnex snags Arqiva's telecoms unit for £2bn to become the UK's 'largest' wireless infrastructure operator Cash ploughed into paying off Brit firm's debt after IPO fail * Tune in this month to find out how equipment makers will bring the cloud down to Earth In-house and public – make the best of both worlds with the help of Avnet EMEA DevOps * Flak overflow: Barrage of criticism prompts very public Stack Overflow apology Sorry mods, we'll do better, promises CTO (again) Emergent Tech * Talk about a calculated RISC: If you think you can do a better job than Arm at designing CPUs, now's your chance RISC-V, accelerator pressure leads to customizable Armv8-M instructions * Online deepfakes double in just nine months, scaring politicians – and fooling the rest of us Surprise, surprise, a whopping 96 per cent of them are X-rated Personal Tech * US games company Blizzard kowtows to Beijing by banning gamer who dared to bring up Hong Kong 'Every voice matters' unless there's renminbi to be had * Game over: Atari VCS architect quits project, claims he hasn’t been paid for six months Retro console a mess, may never launch, sources allege Security * Twitter: No, really, we're very sorry we sold your security info for a boatload of cash That was just an unfortunate accident that ended up padding Jack's bank account * You know the deal: October 2019. Pwned by a spreadsheet. Patch your Microsoft stuff On the bright side, nothing from Adobe to install this month * Tune in today: Learn lessons from Australia and Singapore – find out how to thwart cyber-crooks probing your IT Protect your business with Carbon Black * A trio of boffins scoop the Nobel Prize in physics for the first exoplanet discovery and big bang model James Peebles will get half the prize, whilst Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz share a quarter * If you have a security alert, I feel bad for you, son – you got 99 problems but a hack ain't one Nearly all admin warnings are false alarms, says Kaspersky, and that's not a bad thing * Nix to the mix: Chrome to block passive HTTP content swirled into HTTPS pages Warns site owners: Images, audio, video will be barred in gradual process Software * MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps Still, it could be worse, you could be one of cloud slinger's Venezuelan customers * Euro ISP club: Sure, weaken encryption. It'll only undermine security for everyone, morons UK, Oz and US pleas to Facebook given short shrift Science * Tough luck, Jupiter, you've lost your crown for now: Boffins show Saturn has more moons All hail the new moon king ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 14 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HN, UK The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2019 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: