
Adobe goes AI with Firefly
A new family of creative generative AI suite
AI is pushing hard and Adobe is obviously not going to be left behind, and today, it has unveiled Firefly, a new family of creative generative AI tools focused on the generation of images and text effects.

Adobe's move to dump Pantone from creative cloud bites
You need to spend more money
Designers using Adobe's expensive Creative Cloud tools will have to fork out more cash if they depend on Pantone Color books.

Adobe's Figma has Wall Street unimpressed
Shares plummet
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street have rubbished Adobe's plans to buy online collaboration tool Figma for $20 billion.

Adobe founder dies
Pioneer of desktop publishing and inventor of PDF
Charles 'Chuck' Geschke, the co-founder of Adobe, who was the pioneer of “What you see is what you get" (or WYSIWYG) desktop publishing has died. He was 81.

Adobe's Super Resolution is rather good
AI photo enhancement
Among Adobe's latest software updates via the Creative Cloud is a new feature in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) called "Super Resolution" which is rather good.

Adobe announces final update to Flash Player
Last one before retirement
Adobe has released the final scheduled update to its Flash Player plugin, weeks before Flash's official retirement.

Microsoft kills Flash early
No point waiting for Christmas
Microsoft has released a Windows update that removes Adobe's Flash Player before it reaches end of support on December 31, 2020.

Flash will not see 2021
Execution date set
Three years ago, long after the rise (and fall) of Flash, Adobe announced that its once-ubiquitous multimedia platform was finally going away. But Adobe never provided a specific date for when Flash would reach its end-of-life. Now it seems that its time on death row will be over on December 31, 2020.

3D Subscription software driving move to open source
Could this lead to Linux on the desktop?
3D software makers' move to subscription models is pushing people to use open-source software because users are fed up with the price and neurotic terms and conditions.

Adobe turns off customers in Venezuela
As if their lives were not bad enough
Adobe is shutting down service for users in Venezuela in order to comply with a US executive order issued in August that prohibits trade with the country.