• Defense Distributed launched DEFCAD.org as a censorship-resistant mirror for 3-D-printable gun files after Makerbot removed firearms-related uploads from Thingiverse, highlighting the intersection of open-source hardware, legal pressure, and distributed file hosting.

• Participants debated low-cost alternatives to $300+ commercial 10 GHz RF splitters, concluding that DIY PCB solutions require ceramic substrates and precisely milled trace geometries to maintain 50 Ω impedance at X-band frequencies.

• A live experiment with the WADA anti-doping ADAMS system registered “electronic sports” as a sport to probe how drug-testing protocols apply to competitive gaming (StarCraft, League of Legends), exposing gaps in current regulation.

• Paperbot, an IRC-integrated academic-paper fetcher, received on-the-fly commits to add JSTOR support and successfully retrieved “Observational Learning of Food Aversions in Red-Winged Blackbirds,” demonstrating real-time open-source tool development.

• 23andMe’s public REST API and sample Flask OAuth app (https://api.23andme.com/) were showcased; raw genotyping data are delivered as a single large CSV, enabling DIY bioinformatics pipelines without proprietary software.

• NSA security guidance explicitly warns against standard commercial Bluetooth headsets, prompting discussion of long-range Bluetooth sniffing gear and the founding of mobile-security firm Appthority after Hollywood eavesdropping demos.

• A proposed poultry-management experiment compared computer-vision-guided shock collars with classical conditioned taste aversion (induced nausea) to train birds to eat weeds but avoid crops, supported by two peer-reviewed papers on wild-bird learning.

• NanoEngineer-1 was re-evaluated: its primary value is rapid construction of PDB-compatible nanostructure models and a reusable part library, despite limited molecular-dynamics capabilities, making it a CAD-centric rather than simulation tool.