The Daily Shear

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.