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September 9, 2024, 1:10 PM

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Apple:
Livestream of Apple's “It's Glow Time” event from Apple Park  —  - This stream is best experienced on an iPhone 7 or later, iPad (5th generation or later), or iPod touch (7th generation) using Safari on iOS 12 or later; or a Mac using Safari on macOS Mojave 10.14 or later.
The Verge:
A live blog of Apple's event, where four new iPhones are expected and rumors suggest a new Apple Watch and AirPods models could be announced  —  We're here with the latest on Apple Intelligence, iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods. … It's glowtime, baby.
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
AMD announces it will eventually move to a unified UDNA GPU architecture, bringing RDNA and CDNA together, as it hopes to rival Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem  —  By Paul Alcorn Contributions from Jarred Walton published  —  Two become one.  —  Here in Berlin, Germany, at IFA 2024, AMD's Jack Huynh …
Washington Post:
The US DOJ's case against Google's ad business may benefit Meta, Amazon, and news organizations that pay Google a cut of revenue for brokering their website ads  —  Federal prosecutors are seeking a divestment of Google's multibillion-dollar online advertising business, saying its monopoly power harms advertisers and publishers.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Bending Spoons plans to lay off 75% of WeTransfer staff after acquiring the file-sharing service in July 2024; WeTransfer reportedly has 350+ employees  —  Italy-based app company Bending Spoons, which owns Evernote and Meetup, is planning to lay off 75% of the staff of file transfer service WeTransfer, TechCrunch has learned.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Automation and IT monitoring company Progress agrees to acquire Raleigh-based file management platform ShareFile for $875M in cash and credit  —  Progress, a Bedford, Massachusetts-based software firm, on Monday announced that it intends to acquire file management platform ShareFile for $875 million in cash and credit.
Jack Apollo George / The Guardian:
A writer who works for a tech company describes how he helps train AI models how to write, by making up pretend responses to hypothetical chatbot questions  —  Journalists and other writers are employed to improve the quality of chatbot replies.  The irony of working for an industry …

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