NBD: Adobe just dumped its PRIVATE PGP key on the internet [Mon Sep 25 2017]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 25 September 2017 ***************************************************************** NBD: Adobe just dumped its PRIVATE PGP key on the internet Change the name to A-d'oh!-be ***************************************************************** Business * Chairman Zuck ends would-be president Zuck's political career Facebook gives up on share plan that would give Zuck control forever, even if he worked for government * Spanish govt slammed over bizarre Catalan .cat internet registry cop raid Heavy-handed tactics during lead up to independence referendum * For Facebook, ignorance is the business model: Social net is shocked – SHOCKED – that people behave badly See no evil, hear no evil, speak of no evil * UK.gov lays down rules for cross-Whitehall data slurps Consultation opens on codes of practice for Digital Economy Act * Microsoft reveals details of flagship London store within spitting distance from Apple's Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours * How Apple is taming the ad biz. Just don't expect Google or Zuck to follow Inside ITP, Safari's third-party cookie zapper * Shock: Brit capital strips Uber of its taxi licence That could mean 40,000 drivers out of work * HPE sharpening the axe for 5,000 heads – report All part of CEO Whitman's 'long-term ops and financial blueprint' * Database biz MongoDB files to go public, hopes to raise a cool $100m Revenues are up, but NoSQL firm still burning through cash * Sysadmin tells user CSI-style password guessing never w– wait WTF?! It's 'PASSWORD1'! Sysadmin hated making it look so easy, but didn't mind being a hero for saving a payroll run * First big Privacy Shield review has ended – and yep, it's great! Just don't ask about mass spying Surprise – a thumbs up to private info flying over the Pond Data Centre * The award for worst ISP goes to... it starts with Talk and ends with Talk Two other big brands, Sky and BT, also in the naughty corner * Microsoft and Facebook's transatlantic cable completed In 2018 'MAREA' will move ads and Azure from USA to Spain at 160 terabits per second * Cloud washes Dell off perch atop storage market Backup appliance sales go off a cliff, traditional array vendors just aren't growing * Cisco puts UCS director on death row, to be replaced by cloudy 'Intersight' The Borg assimilates the infrastructure-as-code message DevOps * Facebook U-turn: React, other libraries freed from unloved patent license Hybrid BSD pact will be replaced by MIT deal for some projects * Java SE 9 and Java EE 8 arrive, 364 days later than first planned Now that all the unpleasantness is behind us, let us code Emergent Tech * Silicon brains ready to plug into London It's getting mighty crowded at MCubed Personal Tech * Super Cali goes ballistic, Gatorade app is bogus: Even the sound of it is something quite atrocious And who's going to stand up for the Arnold Palmer? * If you need to replace anything other than your iPhone 8's battery or display, good luck And things are looking even worse for the X Security * Don’t fear the software shopkeeper: T&Cs banning bad reviews aren’t legal in America Doesn’t stop them trying to put the frighteners, tho * Want to get around app whitelists by pretending to be Microsoft? Of course you can... ...And here's how * Aw, not you too, Verizon: US telco joins list of leaky AWS S3 buckets Now is a good time to go check your own Amazon settings. 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