- Security lapses at a consumer-genomics company (Nature blog) triggered debate on whether early-adopter vigilance can scale to mass-market genetic testing.  
- Participants finalized an “h+beer” meetup at Sprout (Cambridge, MA) for hands-on demos with a newly acquired Universal Laser Cutter, including microfluidics and DIY PCR-on-a-chip designs.  
- The OpenPCR Kickstarter drove discussion of which Open Hardware License best protects open-source biotech devices.  
- Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maryland have effectively criminalized recording on-duty police, paralleling similar UK legislation and raising civil-liberties alarms.  
- A dark-humor concept of “corporate immortality” was sketched: an automated post-mortem fraud engine run by AI board members and shell corporations.  
- kanzure is funding ~$1 k for Python bindings to OpenCSG plus STEP export to escape mesh-based CAD; contractors were sought.  
- Mark Carranza’s mind.mx “personal memory management” system is in closed beta, with invites delayed by the developer’s illness.  
- Weekly video meetups were chosen over a Second-Life-based DIYBio conference, modeled on Fab Academy’s peer-driven sessions.  
- The Paris squat-based hackerspace faces eviction, highlighting the fragility of physical community labs.  
- OpenSCAD’s architecture (OpenCSG for rendering, CGAL for CSG) was critiqued for CGAL’s non-OSI license; STEP (ISO 10303) was championed as the editable “source code” alternative to STL meshes, with nascent Python CSG APIs and NASA pythonOCC resources shared.