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Texas board approves state water plan with $174 billion price tag - Westlaw Today (today.westlaw.com)

OpenAI's Rogue Agent Went Unnoticed For a Week (yro.slashdot.org)

Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall (www.wsj.com)

Highs and Lows: Utah's Water Future - Senator John Curtis (www.curtis.senate.gov)

Banquish — Make the web your workspace (www.producthunt.com)

Datalab’s Marker 2 vs MinerU, Docling and LiteParse: 76.0 on olmOCR-bench at 5× MinerU’s Throughput (www.marktechpost.com)

Drought Task Force makes formal recommendations to Gov. Jared Polis to reduce water use (www.cpr.org)

Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach (www.maths.cam.ac.uk)

OpenComputer (www.producthunt.com)

Instagram Is Now Banning Pickup Artists, Pranksters Who Use Meta Glasses (tech.slashdot.org)

Seller by Facebook (www.producthunt.com)

Trump administration admits grants for clean energy were canceled based on politics (www.wsls.com)

BrainFeed (www.producthunt.com)

2027 State Water Plan Receives Initial Approval Amid Concern Over Missing Data Center Analysis (texasscorecard.com)

Faire évoluer le modèle de développement - Vietnam.vn (www.vietnam.vn)

Appeals fail, Project Taurus data center in Colorado Springs moves ahead (www.cpr.org)

Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep (news.st-andrews.ac.uk)

State leaders preparing for a long, dry summer as Gov. Cox declares drought - YouTube (www.youtube.com)

Hyprspace dans les starting-blocks pour un premier tir suborbital - PressReader (www.pressreader.com)

Floodwater starts arriving in Corpus Christi reservoirs, sparking hope for a water crisis delay (www.newsfromthestates.com)

Paramount Agrees to Postpone Warner Bros. Merger Until June 2027 (yro.slashdot.org)

Conduit (www.producthunt.com)

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] (www.spacex.com)

Dolmenwood: Fantasy RPG built around the acclaimed Old-School Essentials rules (necroticgnome.com)

One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires (www.wired.com)

Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain (arstechnica.com)

After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses (www.theverge.com)

AIs don't do what you want. This is bad (rewardhacking.org)

Clara Chappaz fait son retour à l'Élysée. À partir du 1er août, l'ancienne ministre déléguée à ... (www.facebook.com)

US Accuses American of Allegedly Wiping His Phone Using a 'Duress' Password During Border Search (yro.slashdot.org)

Virginia study on groundwater, data centers calls for tighter water regulations - WTVR.com (www.wtvr.com)

Paramount/WBD merger delayed for months as states' lawsuit moves toward trial (arstechnica.com)

Formal complaint filed against Franklin County leadership alleging conflicts of interest ... - WSLS (www.wsls.com)

Google announces air-cooling for first Botetourt data center building, raising questions over ... (www.wsls.com)

Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and Computer Use at Unchanged Opus Pricing (www.marktechpost.com)

Texas includes minimal data center info in state water plan, citing 'limited data' - Community Impact (communityimpact.com)

Activists walk camels through Budapest to draw attention to drought - The Washington Post (www.washingtonpost.com)

CISOs vs. Boards: Myth or Misunderstanding? (www.darkreading.com)

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech (arstechnica.com)

The Health Researcher Diving into Data Center Policy - Heatmap News (heatmap.news)

Greenland's Ice Sheet Was Supposed to Be Rapidly Melting Away. It Hasn't Been (cp.copernicus.org)

Modelfac (www.producthunt.com)

Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid Catch in the Falklands (www.schneier.com)

Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap (arstechnica.com)

Show HN: Max Studio Tools (C++ DSP Modules for Max and Ableton Live) (github.com)

Roku Raises Prices of Streaming Devices By Up To 60% (news.slashdot.org)

Industry’s message on CIRCIA: Please ask us fewer questions about cyberattacks (cyberscoop.com)

TouchGrass (www.producthunt.com)

Chinese Companies Are Selling Vapes With Chemicals Potentially More Potent Than Nicotine (www.wired.com)

Google to use air-cooling tech for first Botetourt data center, reducing water use - Virginia Business (virginiabusiness.com)