• Google quietly acquired SocialGold, an online-currency API that had been used in open-source transhumanist projects, potentially disrupting existing funding or micropayment experiments.  
• The Open Space Movement launched a SourceForge-style collaborative platform for open-source aerospace engineering and has already pledged ~$5,000 to Copenhagen Suborbitals, with a public chip-in campaign at http://osm.chipin.com/osm-jul-2010.  
• kanzure released the first public reverse-engineering toolkit for the Emotiv EPOC EEG headset—USB/HID capture scripts, candidate AES keys, and sample encrypted recordings—mirrored at http://diyhpl.us/irc/emotiv/epoc/.  
• Daeken is independently dissecting the Emotiv SDK binaries to extract the AES encryption key and emulate the headset so arbitrary data streams can be fed to official Emotiv applications, while masked confirmed Emotiv will soon ship a Linux SDK.  
• Earlier work on extending OpenEEG to 32 channels and replacing the EPOC’s DSP to bypass encryption was recalled, highlighting ongoing open-source efforts to unlock consumer-grade BCI hardware.  
• Eugene Izhikevich clarified that a widely circulated brain-simulation image on BrainCorporation’s site originates from his 2008 PNAS paper on large-scale brain modeling.  
• kanzure shared links to Pachube (now Xively) and a new Ruby client (kitplummer/pachuber) for real-time sensor data hosting, enabling DIY bio- and neuro-monitoring dashboards.  
• DARPA is evaluating funding the open-source SKDB project but may require a 10-person development team, sparking debate over whether such staffing is necessary for software-centric biohacking efforts.  
• Participants identified the need for a rapid NURBS/spline editor to prototype curves and surfaces before full CAD integration, pointing to Caltech coursework and a Bezier-curve editor as starting points.  
• The ADL paper archive (adl.serveftp.org) remains offline after a DMCA takedown, and the physical server is locked to a desk with an anti-theft alarm, complicating data recovery for the open-source community.