CISA details twin attacks on federal servers via unpatched ColdFusion flaw Tardy IT admins likely to get a chilly reception over the lack of updates Security05 Dec 2023 | 2
Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator Competition Markets Authority claims merger will reduce innovation for designers and other creative types Software29 Nov 2023 | 11
Europe says Adobe's $20B buy of Figma will kill competition Updated Software duo must respond with remedies – plus: closing deal in '23 likely a Figma of their imagination Software20 Nov 2023 | 9
Another month, another bunch of fixes for Microsoft security bugs exploited in the wild Patch Tuesday Plus: VMware closes critical hole, Adobe fixes a whopping 76 flaws Patches15 Nov 2023 | 17
Adobe sells fake AI-generated Israel-Hamas war images – then the news ran them as real The world needs a timeout moment AI + ML08 Nov 2023 | 27
Regulator delays Adobe's $20B buy of Figma, derails deal deadline Updated Competition and Markets Authority needs more time to consider 'complex case', new deadline set for February 2024 Software26 Oct 2023 | 11
How 'AI watermarking' system pushed by Microsoft and Adobe will and won't work Check for 'cr' bubble in pictures if your app supports it, or look in the metadata if it hasn't been stripped, or... AI + ML15 Oct 2023 | 38
Adobe's AI tools may paint a pretty picture, but they also cost a pretty penny At least artists are being paid to train its models AI + ML14 Sep 2023 | 4
Grab those updates: Microsoft flings out fixes for already-exploited bugs Patch Tuesday Plus: Adobe and Android also tackle abused-in-the-wild flaws Patches12 Sep 2023 | 5
Computer graphics pioneer John Warnock dies at 82 Obit Pioneer of hidden-line removal, co-inventor of Postscript and PDF, author of Illustrator, and charitable benefactor Software21 Aug 2023 | 9
Magento shopping cart attack targets critical vulnerability revealed in early 2022 Really? You didn't bother to patch a 9.8 severity critical flaw? Patches11 Aug 2023 | 7
Microsoft, Intel lead this month's security fix emissions Patch Tuesday Downfall processor leaks, Teams holes, VPN clients at risk, and more Patches08 Aug 2023 | 8
Europe sticks a monopoly probe into Adobe-Figma merger US, UK watchdogs also question proposed $20B deal Applications08 Aug 2023 | 9
Adobe's $20B Figma deal hit by in-depth probe in the UK Updated Software could be 'an emerging competitive threat' to luxury design SaaS maker, notes regulator Software13 Jul 2023 | 3
UK competition watchdog threatens deeper probe of Adobe's $20B Figma deal Vendors have days to answer cost and innovation concerns, may face potential delay to merger... or worse Software30 Jun 2023 | 1
Two Microsoft Windows bugs under attack, one in Secure Boot with a manual fix Patch Tuesday On the plus side, this month's update batch is a bit smaller than usual Patches09 May 2023 | 20
April Patch Tuesday: Ransomware gangs already exploiting this Windows bug Plus Google, SAP, Adobe and Cisco emit fixes Patches11 Apr 2023 | 9
Average Adobe staffer makes $170k a year, and 185 of them = 1 CEO Margins in software are enough to let you heat house, eat and buy a car Software20 Mar 2023 | 33
Adobe reckons it'll complete $20B Figma mega deal by year-end Ups financial forecasts on back of 'healthy' Q1, as more and more of world goes digital Software16 Mar 2023 | 4
Uncle Sam to block Adobe absorption of Figma over monopoly fears Some investors and creative pros may cheer, but Photoshop giant's not done yet Applications24 Feb 2023 | 8
Adobe's $20b buy of Figma in crosshairs of Europe's antitrust cops If you could come this way and answer a few questions, say 16 countries Software15 Feb 2023 | 7
Microsoft delivers 75-count box of patches for Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday Adobe, SAP, Intel, AMD, Android also show up with bouquet of fixes Security14 Feb 2023 | 8
Microsoft switches Edge’s PDF reader to pay-to-play Adobe Acrobat And yes, sure, totally secure Software10 Feb 2023 | 118
Adobe: Take user data to train generative AI models? We'd never do that Controversial policy change forces chief product officer to speak out AI + ML19 Jan 2023 | 13
First Patch Tuesday of the year explodes with in-the-wild exploit fix Patch Tuesday Plus: Intel, Adobe, SAP and Android bugs Patches11 Jan 2023 | 20
Adobe will use your work to train its AI algorithms unless you opt out Content analysis system scans data stored on its Creative Cloud services AI + ML07 Jan 2023 | 27
Adobe confirms UK looking into its $20b Figma deal, EU probe 'expected' Options? Customers have heard of them. Software giant reports record $17b+ revs, with biggest growth in ... PDFs? SaaS16 Dec 2022 | 10
Adobe to sell AI-generated images on its stock photo platform Contributors will have to disclose whether their work was made using AI, and are not allowed rip off artists AI + ML06 Dec 2022 | 5
US Justice Department requests more info from Adobe on $20b Figma buy Antitrust scrutiny into one of the biggest deals for a private software developer Software18 Nov 2022 | 4
Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF Comment The ghosts of dead trees haunt us still Columnists24 Oct 2022 | 238
It’s Patch Tuesday and still no fix for ProxyNotShell Microsoft Exchange holes Patch Tuesday And for bonus points, there's a Windows flaw under active exploit Patches11 Oct 2022 | 21
WordPress-powered sites backdoored after FishPig suffers supply chain attack And two other security snafus in this web publishing world Patches15 Sep 2022 | 18
Microsoft fixes Windows security hole likely widely exploited by miscreants Patch Tuesday Plus: Nasty no-auth RCE in TCP/IP stack, Adobe flaws, and many more updates Patches13 Sep 2022 | 14
Sony camera feature hopes to make digital images immune to secret manipulation Cryptographically signs pics – but you'll pay $2,500 before you've bought a lens Personal Tech15 Aug 2022 | 17
Patch Tuesday: Yet another Microsoft RCE bug under active exploit Oh, and that critical VMware auth bypass vuln? Miscreants found it, too Security09 Aug 2022 | 7
Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday fixes actively exploited bug Patch Tuesday No, Windows Autopatch didn't kill the monthly patchapalooza Patches12 Jul 2022 | 8
Adobe lowers 2022 forecast, blames Ukraine war, strong dollar Extended 'summer season' also at fault, says software slinger as share price slides Software17 Jun 2022 | 8
Adobe apologizes for repeated outages of its Creative Cloud video collaboration service Frame.io admits it was 'slow to scale as demand rose Off-Prem15 Jun 2022 | 12
Microsoft fixes under-attack Windows zero-day Follina Patch Tuesday Plus: Intel, AMD react to Hertzbleed data-leaking holes in CPUs Patches15 Jun 2022 | 4
Inkscape adds multi-page support with v1.2 update Pain points plugged in open-source vector art package Software17 May 2022 | 20
Researchers find 134 flaws in the way Word, PDFs, handle scripts Black Hat Asia ‘Cooperative mutation’ spots problems that checking code alone will miss Security13 May 2022 | 27
Microsoft's huge Patch Tuesday includes fix for bug under attack April bundle addresses 100-plus vulnerabilities including 10 critical RCEs Patches13 Apr 2022 | 15
Adobe Creative Cloud Experience makes it easier to run malware Bundled version of Node.js simplifies executing downloaded code Security07 Apr 2022 | 7
Adobe anticipates $75m hit from Russia, Belarus pullout Of course it's still making money hand over fist, but there's an actual number to put on war's effect on big tech Software23 Mar 2022 | 3
Microsoft patches critical remote-code-exec hole in Exchange Server and others Patch Tuesday And Adobe, SAP, Intel, AMD, Cisco, Google join in Security09 Mar 2022 | 9
Adobe warns of second critical security hole in Adobe Commerce, Magento As sanctioned Russian infosec firm says it has working exploit code Security18 Feb 2022 | 19
Emergency updates: Adobe, Chrome patch security bugs under active attack Friends are always telling me ... just be good to free() Security16 Feb 2022 | 13
Microsoft manages a mere 51 security fixes for February update bundle Patch Tuesday Excitement this month can be found in SAP code, with critical Log4j repairs and a CISA warning Security09 Feb 2022 | 5
Microsoft closes installer hole abused by Emotet malware, Google splats Chrome bug exploited in the wild Patch Tuesday Round off the year with a large crop of fixes for programming blunders Security15 Dec 2021 | 8
These couldn't wait for Patch Tuesday: Adobe issues bonus fixes for 92 security holes in 14 products It's 2021 and of course code with classic buffer overflows is still shipping Security26 Oct 2021 | 14
Ever wondered where the 'cloud' was in Adobe Creative Cloud? Here it is in beta form In-browser editing previewed for Photoshop and Illustrator SaaS26 Oct 2021 | 22
What follows Patch Tuesday? Exploit Wednesday. Grab this bumper batch of security updates from Microsoft Four flaws already being abused in the wild to compromise victims Security14 Jul 2021 | 16
Extra urgency in June's Patch Tuesday: Microsoft warns six more bugs are being exploited Patch Tuesday Adobe, Intel, SAP, Android emit vulnerability fixes, too Security09 Jun 2021 | 1
'Big updates' to Mac design app Sketch add real-time collaboration – but you'll need to fork out for a subscription Perpetual licence still offered, but with downgraded features Applications12 May 2021 | 5
Adobe shareholders sign off on exec raises, with CEO Shantanu Narayen winning a plush $7m pay rise Once again, the cloud makes it rain SaaS22 Apr 2021 | 7
Adobe co-founder and PostScript co-creator Charles Geschke dies, aged 81 Mathematician and massive figure in digital publishing lives on in every PDF Software19 Apr 2021 | 44
Cracked copies of Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop steal your session cookies, browser history, crypto-coins It's like the 2000s all over again, sighs Bitdefender Security13 Apr 2021 | 41
Security pro's time-travelling Twitter bot suspended after posting download link for Adobe Acrobat for MS-DOS 'This is of historical interest. Adobe isn’t really worried about this, it is automation' Bootnotes16 Mar 2021 | 33
That's it. It's over. It's really over. From today, Adobe Flash Player no longer works. We're free. We can just leave Post-Flashpocalypse, we stumble outside, hoping no one ever creates software as insecure as that ever again Security12 Jan 2021 | 141
Internet Archive to preserve Flash content for posterity with Ruffle emulator WebAssembly-powered sandbox promised to be safer than the notorious plugin Software20 Nov 2020 | 31
Was that November's Patch Tuesday? Already? Oh, no, it's just Adobe issuing 14 emergency security fixes Critical Acrobat, Reader flaws evidently couldn't wait until next week Security04 Nov 2020 | 12
Adobe updates Creative Cloud: Pushes out Illustrator for iPad and full sky replacement in Photoshop Adobe MAX Plus: Is it real or is it Photoshop? First preview of Content Authenticity tool SaaS20 Oct 2020 | 16