- The FBI held a July 13 “DIYbio & FBI” outreach meeting in Austin; handwritten notes show agents seeking to understand the community but lacking clear policy levers, and they flew an agent in specifically to meet channel regular kanzure.  
- Nature Publishing Group and other NPG journals are confirmed to be freely accessible online in developing countries, sparking discussion on global open-access equity.  
- LA Biohackers have begun a collaboration with Chinese sequencing giant BGI after a simple “yo” email was enthusiastically accepted, illustrating the ease of transnational biohacker-industry links.  
- Autodesk is now sponsoring the Clotho synthetic-biology platform and offers students the Molecular Maya toolkit to import PDB molecular structures into Maya for 3-D visualization.  
- Houston’s DIYbio group has rebranded as “Arcollab” (arcollab.org) and moved its coordination to a new Google Group.  
- Creative Commons announced a search for a new CTO, highlighting growing institutional overlap with open-science and transhumanist circles.  
- A leaked ISO TC184-SC4 industrial-standards meeting list from China exposed email addresses of top STEP/ISO figures, underscoring the channel’s reach into global standards bodies.  
- Channel members debated how to quantify juggling performance as a potential quantified-self metric, suggesting “cubic meters juggled per second” as a tongue-in-cheek unit.  
- Spontaneous high-value ($2 k/hour) contracting work and last-minute Quantified Self presentation prep created a snapshot of the ad-hoc, fast-moving nature of channel participants’ projects.