- A fundraising project on 3dbrew.org is crowdsourcing SEM decapping of the Nintendo 3DS to reverse-engineer its hardware, with EAG Labs mentioned as a potential service provider.  
- Degate, an open-source tool on GitHub (nitram2342/degate), is highlighted for semi-automatic reverse engineering of logic in integrated circuits from SEM images.  
- Discussion of surfraw and googlecl as terminal-based tools for web queries; both are largely unmaintained, prompting nostalgia and practical work-arounds.  
- Steroids and hacking performance: participants debate whether anabolic steroids offer any cognitive or programming benefit, concluding there is no evidence and noting immune-system and mood risks.  
- Singularity Institute / SIAI is effectively dissolved: Singularity University acquires the Singularity Summit and singularity.org domain, while the original org will rebrand and continue independently.  
- Zero State project criticized for vague “democratic futurist” rhetoric, lack of technical substance, and broken web presence; several members privately voice support for the critique.  
- Predictive interfaces and “zero-input” computing are discussed, with skepticism about Dasher-style predictive typing and praise for Jef Raskin-style humane interfaces.  
- A running joke laments the disappearance of once-useful internet tools and content, framing it as a broader loss of technical knowledge.