- A pre-print claims intraperitoneal C60 fullerene in olive oil doubled rat lifespan, but the olive-oil-only control also extended life 50 %, leaving the mechanism and reproducibility in doubt (paper at http://extremelongevity.net/wp-content/uploads/C60-Fullerene.pdf).  
- Breakout Labs (Peter Thiel) awarded six $350 k biotech grants: 3Scan (3-D digital brain histology), Arigos (organ cryopreservation), Immusoft (in-vivo immune-cell drug factories), Inspirotec (airborne-pathogen capture), Longevity Biotech (orally available “Hybridtides”), and Positron Dynamics (scalable positron sources for imaging & antimatter propulsion).  
- Twitter open-sourced the “Innovators Patent Agreement,” a legal template letting engineers retain control of their patents and block offensive litigation (repo at https://github.com/twitter/innovators-patent-agreement).  
- Channel members are pushing real-time WebGL/OpenGL rendering of high-density spherical polynomial splines on the GPU; current WebGL lacks geometry shaders and OpenCL, forcing shader-based NURBS/Bezier tessellation work-arounds for scientific terrain and artifact modeling.  
- A surplus lab-equipment fire-sale near San Rafael, CA lists functional DNA synthesizers (Dr. Oligo-192, AKTA Oligo Pilot-100, Milligen 3700) for ~$2 k, or <$500 if “software problems,” plus free phosphoramidites.  
- DIY spectrophotometer resources were pooled: a curated GitHub list and Hackteria guides were shared to accelerate open-source bio-lab builds.  
- Debate on patent reform proposed mandatory RAND-R (royalty-free) licensing capped at 10 % of product value, countered by claims that patents themselves are “delusional.”  
- Nootropic self-experimenters called for an open-source battery of standardized cognitive/motor tests to replace anecdotal piracetam, alpha-GPC, and noopept reports.  
- A 40 W 365 nm UV LED (<$200) is being evaluated as a drop-in replacement for CO₂ laser tubes in DIY stereolithography and micro-fabrication rigs.  
- The FBI will host a 6-day biosecurity outreach (June 12–17) at Genspace and BioCurious; invitations were pending and attendance was being weighed.