- France 24 TV is preparing a segment on synthetic biology and is seeking London-based biohackers; contacts were provided and a new biolab is reportedly being built inside the London Hackspace.  
- Feasibility of woolly-mammoth cloning was debated: degraded genomes, missing epigenetic data, and elephant oocyte compatibility are major hurdles; one proposed workaround is creating a hybrid nucleus with one haploid mammoth and one haploid Asian-elephant chromosome set.  
- BioCurious is in acute financial distress—30–60 days from insolvency—and is weighing an emergency pivot to high-value classes and stricter membership enforcement versus shutting down and storing equipment while searching for free space.  
- Participants criticized the traditional $50–$100/month membership model as unsustainable; a seven-tier pricing scheme for a new Carlsbad lab ranges from $50/month for part-time access to $600/month for resident startups plus a percentage of any SBIR grants.  
- A minimal C runtime was demonstrated that statically recompiles NES games into native executables using LLVM and clang, booting directly into the Zelda title screen while falling back to emulation when speculative native-code assumptions fail.  
- Andrew Kelley’s “Jamulator” project—static recompilation of NES binaries via LLVM and Go—was linked, prompting debate on the practicality of static recompilation given runtime memory-mapped I/O complexities.  
- Infrastructure discussions included provisioning a dedicated Git repository and ikiwiki namespace at diyhpl.us/portlab to isolate portLAB content, and a request for a Chrome extension to block JavaScript clipboard hijacking (with hosts-file blocking of tynt.com suggested as an interim fix).