- A nanotube-based mass spectrometer developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was highlighted; the device uses suspended carbon nanotubes as ultra-sensitive resonators to weigh individual biomolecules.  
- Singapore’s hackerspace.sg is hosting a DIYbio event on 30 July 2010 alongside a bioethics conference, and a similar but less-public gathering is rumored to exist in Brazil.  
- step.py, a Python script for programmatic generation of STEP CAD files, successfully produced its first functional output: a simple sphere.  
- The Pink Army Cooperative, an open-source project to create personalized oncolytic viruses, is stalled at ~600–650 members while founder Andrew Hessel insists on reaching 2,500 sign-ups before beginning patient work; a splinter group of lawyers and media consultants is meanwhile redesigning the website.  
- Cypherpunk veteran Len Sassaman is scheduled to appear on a panel with DIYbio advocate Ed You, prompting speculation about how the cypherpunk ethos will intersect with contemporary biohacking.  
- The Open Science Summit’s list of participating organizations was shared, though the logos were noted to be poorly scaled.  
- New Space 2010 conference videos (22 segments) were posted to YouTube via SpaceVidcast, and a live Russian EVA was being streamed at the time.  
- A brief cross-link was posted to a DIYbio/3-D-printing article featuring biohacker Cathal Garvey.