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The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from Google and others to help FOSS maintainers cope with the influx of AI-generated security findings (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

Simon Sharwood / The Register:
The Linux Foundation announces $12.5M in total grants from Google and others to help FOSS maintainers cope with the influx of AI-generated security findings  —  Half a dozen Big Tech players have together delivered $12.5 million in grants towards a project that aims to help maintainers …

Samsung says it is considering a shift toward multi-year contracts for memory chips that may help stabilize supply and ease concerns about a shortage (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
Samsung says it is considering a shift toward multi-year contracts for memory chips that may help stabilize supply and ease concerns about a shortage  —  Samsung Electronics Co. is considering a shift toward multi-year contracts for memory chips, a much longer timeframe than is typical …

Sources: Amazon, long the USPS' biggest customer, plans to cut packages it ships via the service by at least two-thirds this fall, when its contract expires (Esther Fung/Wall Street Journal)

Esther Fung / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Amazon, long the USPS' biggest customer, plans to cut packages it ships via the service by at least two-thirds this fall, when its contract expires  —  The e-commerce giant wants to reduce its postal volume by at least two-thirds by this fall  —  Amazon.com is planning to sharply cut …

A US judge rules Apple can remove apps "with or without cause", a loss for Musi, a streaming app removed from the App Store that used YouTube to source music (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
A US judge rules Apple can remove apps “with or without cause”, a loss for Musi, a streaming app removed from the App Store that used YouTube to source music  —  Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy …

Companies start to track employees' AI token use, tallying the costs to measure their return on AI investments and to prevent unauthorized uses of tokens (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal:
Companies start to track employees' AI token use, tallying the costs to measure their return on AI investments and to prevent unauthorized uses of tokens  —  Companies that now regularly use artificial intelligence are starting to track their workers' use of tokens, AI's unit of measurement