- Octopart now provides component lifecycle data, including “end-of-life” alerts, raising questions about whether it also suggests replacement parts.  
- The open-ephys.org blog post (July 2013) was shared, covering recent progress on the open-source Open Ephys neural recording platform.  
- Larry Page’s Google+ post on health, longevity, and moon-shot medical projects was circulated as “nice” reading.  
- A discussion referenced MIT’s STACK static-analysis tool (http://css.csail.mit.edu/stack/), which inspects LLVM-compiled binaries to assess code quality; interest was expressed in running it on the Open CASCADE Community Edition (oce) CAD kernel.  
- The paperbot IRC helper—intended to fetch paywalled IEEE/ACM papers via libgen—was reported broken, hampering quick access to requested articles.