- The FBI circulated a 19-slide briefing on “DIYbio & DNA” (http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/nucleic/fbi-diybio-dna-v1.pdf) and invited channel members to Quantico for a 2012 outreach workshop; transcripts from the 2011 session are also public (diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/fbi-diybio-2011/).  
- Participants dismissed Kurzweil’s quantitative claims as outdated and criticized Craig Venter’s “Edison-style” brute-force genomics for reinforcing genetic determinism while yielding few therapies.  
- Matt Might’s personal genomics detective story (http://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/) was praised as a model of true DIY bioinformatics that received surprisingly little attention on the diybio mailing list.  
- An 80-publisher, PhantomJS-based scraper stack is nearing completion and is expected to create a full mirror of the scientific literature—described as a long-held dream finally being implemented.  
- Open hardware discussion centered on Raspberry Pi logistics: Debian armel/armhf repos exist, but hardware-accelerated video requires Pi-specific builds like omxplayer, and Java performance is viewed skeptically.  
- A new CoffeeScript/PhantomJS web-scraping framework (gist.github.com/25a38b9c5df048dcec4a) was shared for automating JavaScript-heavy academic portals like Sakai, though documentation is still pending.  
- Yeast breeding experiments were debated: commercial strains already reach ~20 % ABV, and while UV mutagenesis could create novel flavors, selective pressure for higher ethanol likely trades off against other desirable traits.  
- Participants argued that state-level actors, not “garden-variety anarchists,” are the real bioterrorism threat, and urged open-source biohackers to partner with NGOs like Médecins Sans Frontières on neglected diseases and $10 000-per-dose drugs.