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An unknown number of Texas voters’ registrations are backlogged after the state’s driver’s license agency failed to send the applications to county officials. / The New Republic

At least for now, the White House has abandoned its plan to install a board of political appointees to oversee the National Institute of Health’s grantmaking process. / Politico

UnitedHealth Group and others push back on a proposal that would direct payments for remote monitoring to only healthcare providers, effectively cutting out contractors. / Becker’s Health IT

See also: Last Week Tonight takes on UnitedHealth, the behemoth that effectively now owns every aspect of your healthcare. / YouTube

Flock is apparently considering selling itself, and potentially could find a willing buyer in competitors Axon or Motorola. / Semafor

After a firmware update bricked their refrigerators, Samsung customers in Korea mourn their spoiled food just days before a major holiday. / Ars Technica

Jaya Saxena: Instagram and Google have made it practically impossible to find out where a restaurant is actually located. / Ravenous

“There are eight billion humans on earth in reality, not 65 billion streams of Ed Sheeran.” Streaming success is a hallucination. / Dada Drummer Almanach

The growing schism at Dartmouth, where some university leaders have surrendered their writing needs to AI, while prohibiting students from “cheating” with the same technology. / Inside Higher Ed

Choose Your Own Adventure is launching an “adult-focused” imprint later this year, with one of the forthcoming titles described as “White Lotus meets Sex and the City.” / Gizmodo

“Or maybe, don’t go into that good night at all. Todd is probably there with his deltoids.” Ways other than “gentle” you could go into that good night. / McSweeney’s

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