• A new acoustic side-channel attack recovers up to 96 % of typed characters from a 10-minute recording of keyboard sounds, even for random passwords, without needing labeled training data (paper: “Keyboard acoustic emanations revisited”).  
• The Emotiv EPOC EEG headset’s gyroscope data range was re-examined; raw values cluster around 1738–1739 with claimed ±300 range, but examples contradict the spec (GitHub issue #74 in emokit).  
• Google Glass security analysis shows that once compromised, the device can silently record passwords, door codes, and key images, prompting calls for a physical camera-shutter indicator.  
• Science Exchange raised a $3 M Series A led by Union Square Ventures to expand its marketplace for outsourced scientific experiments, positioning itself as an “Airbnb for lab services.”  
• Journals Nature and Science still require Microsoft Word for submissions, highlighting the persistence of proprietary formats in academic publishing despite open-science tools.  
• texlive.js ports the entire TeX Live 2012 distribution to JavaScript/WebAssembly, enabling in-browser LaTeX compilation and PDF generation without server round-trips.  
• GitLab-based platforms (e.g., Scigit, ShareLaTeX) are adding real-time LaTeX/PDF rendering and git integration, but calling them “GitHub of science” is criticized as an over-simplistic analogy.  
• Discussion on building low-cost DNA-sequencing hardware for barcoding confirms that “barcoding” is essentially targeted sequencing, with community interest in open-source instruments.