Photostopped: Adobe Cloud evaporates in mass outage. Hope none of you are on a deadline, eh? [Thu May 28 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 28 May 2020 ***************************************************************** Photostopped: Adobe Cloud evaporates in mass outage. Hope none of you are on a deadline, eh? More than dozen services down, customers left unable to work ***************************************************************** Data Centre * Watch live: Backup and restore on AWS can be a challenge – is there a way to make it better, faster, cheaper? You’ve come to the right place: We’re running a webcast to show you how * Photostopped: Adobe Cloud evaporates in mass outage. Hope none of you are on a deadline, eh? 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This is a new system they want to tighten up data streams, but still * IBM resurrects Netezza data warehousing kit in the cloud, which will delight clients midway through migrating Surprise! * Work unleashed: How to work smoothly and securely, wherever you are You're working at home, but who’s got the remote control? * IBM's sacking spree reaches Australia – and as staff wait to exit, they're offered AU$4k to find new workers Axed employees given chance to write almost-certainly futile letters to defend their jobs after the pink slip arrives Emergent Tech * China to test digital version of its currency at 2022 Winter Olympics Peer-to-peer currency exchange without an institution in the middle but with 'controllable anonymity' for central bank Personal Tech * Motorola sticks a suit on Moto G Stylus mobe, pushes it towards European corporate types Same specs, but now it's a Pro * Nope, still can't find them. Skullcandy slips Tile's gadget-tracking hardware into individual earbuds Although perhaps your lockdown digs are tidier than ours * Rich Communication Services: Nobody uses it, nobody wants it, but analysts reckon it's on the verge of a breakthrough A viable alternative to the platforms with billions of active users between them? There's still work to be done * Twitter ticks off Trump with new 'Get the facts' alert on pair of fact-challenged tweets Tweeter-in-chief responds by alleging bias and electoral skulduggery * Uber plans to ride out of stable Singapore, move APAC HQ to high-tension Hong Kong Ride-sharing monster doesn't operate in current home, is illegal in special administrative region * US cable subscribers are still being 'ripped off' by creeping price increases – and this lot has had enough Lawsuit claims Charter's 'fixed' monthly fees are anything but Security * 26 million logins believed to be stolen from LiveJournal in 2017 pop up on hacker forum Best change any recycled credentials from your blogging days * Oh cool, tech service prices are plummeting. And by tech services, we mean botnet rentals and stolen credit cards Supply and demand in action * Microsoft banishes Trend Micro code at center of driver 'cheatware' storm from Windows 10, rootkit detector product pulled from site Infosec's Drivergate scandal deepens * Mulled Chrome API shines light on long-neglected privacy gap: Sites can snoop on your find-in-page searches Naughty JS can watch you hit control+F, start typing, see what's on your mind * India said its coronavirus contact-tracing app is perfect... adds bug bounty and open-sources it anyway As the legalese changes to extend data retention period Software * Apple promises third, no, fourth, er, fifth time's a charm when it comes to macOS Catalina: 10.15.5 now out Just don't expect a full battery * Google brews up a fresh pot of Java for its serverless Cloud Functions service Still on Java 8? 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