#BREAKING A Sea Turtle has nested in Huntington Beach, this may be one of the first times ever that this has happened. NO ONE DISTURB THE NEST

Mike Macdonald said this week that AI tools are going to be a permanent part of how the Seahawks operate, and you could already see it on the TV broadcast against the Patriots. During the Week 1 broadcast, Mike Tirico pointed out that a Seahawks staffer in the coaches' booth was running Microsoft Copilot live during the game. That staffer is Brian Eayrs, Seattle's director of football analysis and special situations. Satya Nadella posted about it afterward. Three things they're using it for. 1. Building the week before the humans show up. An NFL staff burns most of Monday and Tuesday organizing. Cutting tape into buckets. Third and long, red zone, two-minute, what this opponent runs out of nickel against 11 personnel. Then merging the new data with everything you already had on them. Eayrs has Copilot doing that sorting and building custom pre-game templates, so the staff walks in Tuesday to categories that already exist. That was a quality control coach's entire week for most of the last 20 years, and Macdonald held that exact job in Baltimore in 2014. 2. Running the scenarios early enough to practice them. Seattle models situations they might face Sunday. Fourth and 2 from the 38 with four minutes left and one timeout. Whether a two-point try beats a kick against a specific defense's personnel. Teams have run this math for a decade, so what changed is the turnaround. They can ask a question Tuesday morning and have it answered by lunch instead of Thursday night. 3. Real-time analysis during the game. Formation tendencies, snap counts, player load, computed in the booth while the game is happening. Surface tablets have been on NFL sidelines since 2014 and for most of that stretch they were expensive photo viewers. Now someone upstairs can ask what the opponent has done out of a personnel grouping over the last twelve snaps and have it back before the next series starts. Macdonald also records all of his meetings and has the tool package the notes and highlights, so what he tells the defense Wednesday is the same message the position coach delivers Friday. Anybody who has worked inside a big company knows how much gets lost between the meeting and the follow-up. His explanation for why he bothers: "You might get to the same answer, but if you get to it three days earlier, that's super valuable. Now you can rep those things and you can give those players extra experience and extra looks going into the week." No one is letting a model call plays. It buys back hours, and those hours get spent on practice reps. The NFL expanded its league-wide Microsoft deal, so all 32 teams can reach the same tools. Seattle's guy was the one on camera in Week 1 using them, in a building Paul Allen owned for 21 years.

"Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data" arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…

“The architecture of an Exit: Snyk” thefalloutnews.substack.com/…

Federal officials gave an update Wednesday morning on “arrests, cases and other developments” regarding a large homeless services fraud and corruption investigation in Los Angeles. ktla.com/news/local-news/fed…

A fishing charter out of Newport Beach enjoyed an extremely rare, and extremely close, encounter with the ocean’s largest shark, one not typically found in Southern California waters. The encounter was captured on video Monday off San Clemente Island, the southernmost of the Channel Islands, about 55 miles from the coast.

4/ Stolen API keys and session tokens are now a primary goal, not a byproduct. A stolen key gives attackers resale value, free compute, and the ability to misattribute their behavior to the victim. This means securing keys is an easy step you can take right now.

WTF 😅🚀😳 “98% of Astra’s score at 1.4% of cost” Cancel the fucking IPOs 😂

Strap an Action 6 to an FPV and guess how wild it takes off? From breaking through water to blasting into open air, every scene stays sharp thanks to its cold-resistant design — built to endure. 🎥: sebastian_schieren

A cop takes about six minutes to reach a shoplifting call. The drone takes 97 seconds. That four minute gap was the entire business model of grab-and-run theft, and it just closed. In Chula Vista, the department that invented drone-first response, the aircraft launches while the 911 call is still in progress, ignores every red light, and beats patrol to the scene almost every time. Then it just follows you. A dispatcher reads your position to ground units while you wander a parking lot thinking you got away. The two suspects in this clip aren't even running hard. Why would they? For their entire careers, walking fast was enough. The wild part is how quickly this scaled. For years the FAA choked these programs with paperwork. Then between April 2025 and February 2026 it cleared over 1,000 police agencies to fly drones beyond visual line of sight. The previous seven years combined produced 976. Motorola just led a $125M round into BRINC with the stated goal of putting a 911 drone on every one of America's roughly 80,000 police and fire station roofs. Chula Vista's data shows where this ends up. 25,000 missions. A role in 4,138 arrests. And on 4,629 calls, no officer showed up at all, because the drone alone settled it. Petty theft survived for decades on a head start. The head start is gone.

Cyber is having a moment Across 21 major software companies, including Apple, AWS, Microsoft, and Google: - Reported critical vulnerabilities never cleared 100 per month in four years - Since spring they've jumped to over 600 per month Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/chart-of-the-wee…

George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in LA opens to public on September 22. Cost $1.5 billion and covers 300,000 square feet with 35 galleries (tons Star Wars memorabilia) and 2 (apparently insane) movie theatres. Took decade to build and first walk throughs look incredible.

Cockroaches are getting a high-tech makeover. Researchers in Australia have developed cyborg cockroaches equipped with cameras and remotely activated medical injectors, with hopes of using them to reach people trapped in tight, debris-filled spaces during disasters. The researchers say the tiny rescue teams could be deployed within the next five to 10 years. ktla.com/news/cyborg-cockroa…

SITUATION DETECTED: The US government has sided with OpenAI against the New York Times. The DoJ says training an LLM on copyrighted works does not violate copyright law, and that treating it as infringement would hurt US science, prosperity, and national security.

41% of all global code is now AI-generated. AI PRs have 1.4x more critical and 1.7x more major issues than human PRs. 96% of devs don't fully trust AI code. Vibe coding is real, but the risks scale with the speed. #VibeCoding #DevOps #AI infoworld.com/article/421675…

The company which leaked data is IDScan. IDScan does not list all of their customers, however some are publicly known. If you have ever used these companies (and provided an ID) your data has been leaked: - Shell - AMC Theaters - DraftKings - Dutchie - FedEx - Hertz - Chevrolet (General Motors) - GameStop - Jack Henry - MRI (Checkpoint ID) - Polaris - Simmons Bank - LendingUSA - Circa Resort & Casino - Planet 13 - Rouses Market - US Coast Guard Academy - Caesars Entertainment - Motorola

On the House floor tonight, I read the names of several Epstein coconspirators who should be investigated and prosecuted. I also began collecting 218 signatures for the discharge petition to force a vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II.

The pharmaceutical and healthcare technology company McKesson informed regulators it is in the early stages of investigating a cybersecurity incident involving an unnamed third-party application therecord.media/mckesson-cyb…

Once a darling of the cybersecurity world, Snyk faces a stark fall in employee share value as AI rivals intensify. Kenneth MacAskill leads after CEO Peter McKay's exit this year. bit.ly/46rrBSf

This man’s testimony before Ohio’s legislature on what is taking place with data center development, its industry outlook and ultimate impact to communities is over target 🎯 Brilliant idea to compel multi-year state bonding of projects to payroll if industry downsizes to not leave communities cleaning up the blight.