The Daily Shear

Travis County types through delayed voter records, retailers test AI-assisted shelf pricing, and Japan prepares an MMX sample-return mission to Phobos.

Closed nuclear plants get a $4.4 billion restart for data centers, Trump waives his own Russia-Iran sanctions, and Houston police run 183,000 searches through a camera network reaching UNC Charlotte.

TSMC eyes Texas while it and Elon Musk both claim the driver's seat, the Justice Department tries to block California ballots from “likely” noncitizens, and Italy halves airspace capacity after a data-network failure.

Netflix cuts 1,000 jobs while calling business strong, the Justice Department gives California 48 hours to check an unread voter list on an insecure thumb drive, and a China–North Korea bridge opens after 12 years.

Bumble gets a $1.3 billion rescue, a judge blocks the White House ban on three outlets, and a London fraud trial features five public jobs and one separating layer of white make-up.

Texas appeals an order to cool its prisons, hackers heat French supermarket freezers to fifty degrees Celsius, and federal agents search Ilhan Omar’s home three weeks before the election.

A Texas DAR chapter gets dissolved over its use of chapter machinery for outside advocacy, the FTC prepares $15.8 million in Cleo refunds, and Britain's prime minister says advisers confirmed Russian Brexit interference.

Williamson County gets $7 million for a road with no date or total cost, Trump's $5,000 tariff pledge skips the who and when, and Pakistan suspends Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's government before a planned march.

Austin parents weigh petitions to close two schools, Anthropic’s AI sends police a false homicide tip, and U.S. sanctions block transactions with the ICC.

Hutto gets a $650 million Blue Origin complex, a gross-versus-net OpenAI revenue comparison helps sink the Nasdaq, and Arlington County sues to stop Trump’s planned arch before the paperwork catches up.

Kyle switches off its license plate readers pending a nonbinding vote, Asos hackers use the retailer’s own app to announce their breach, and lawsuits target taxpayer-funded Trump ads.

Texas’s utility regulator sues to hide data-center counties, Paramount absorbs Warner Bros. Discovery and its debt, and a former CIA official admits inventing classified programs to obtain property and gold.

Austin Fire races to fill nearly 100 jobs, ASOS customers become a hacker’s back channel to IT, and Trump’s super PAC takes over future ads after taxpayers funded the first run.

A zoning complaint blocks walk-ins at an El Paso bookstore, Google freezes its open-source bug bounty amid invalid automated reports, and Brazil’s presidential race heads to a runoff.

Kyle loses a council member after months of harassment, Congress puts $28.3 billion in hemp sales at risk, and Trump posts Tom Cotton’s cellphone number to push permanent daylight saving time.

Leander fires its school police chief after 381 applicant files went unopened, Amazon pledges $1 billion to data-center towns, and an ex-congressman gets 10 years for secretly lobbying for Maduro.

Oak View Group sues Dallas for $20 million, mortgage rates jump to 7.28 percent, and a federal appeals court makes Trump wait to engrave his name on the US Institute of Peace.

Ken Paxton says Trump’s Dallas convention dropped his numbers, DoorDash prepares drone delivery, and the Pentagon cuts generals while its autonomous-warfare command waits a year.

San Antonio starts a $40 million diverging diamond, OpenAI launches always-on Dots after withholding another model over safety issues, and America.gov answers three hard questions before refusing them.

CapMetro raises fares, Anthropic seeks a towering valuation while warning about its own AI, and a federal judge blocks election rules tied to counterterrorism grants.

Hidalgo County cuts its tax rate while boosting reserves, Walmart promises restraint on digital shelf tags, and Trump reportedly offers Xi a chance to buy American weapons.

Texas counties race through backdated voter registrations, OpenAI pauses advanced-model training after agent incidents, and the U.S. and China settle for panda diplomacy and another meeting.

Dallas garbage trucks grade lawns, Crusoe drops a $1.25 billion turbine deal for its Abilene AI campus, and the White House cancels congressionally approved spending with five days left to review it.

Texas counties sort a year of lost voter files, Oracle's New Mexico campus waits on power, and Trump and Xi extend their trade truce without a breakthrough.

Austin plans a permanent landfill pipeline, Disney prices its bundles into absurdity, and a judge orders the White House to restore press credentials.