- A Nature Nanotechnology paper (nnano.2014.58) on “Designing a bio-responsive robot from DNA origami” was circulated and mirrored at turingbirds.com/temp/ to bypass paywalls, highlighting ongoing interest in programmable molecular machines.  
- Participants revisited the extropian movement’s decline, speculating that early-Internet information dumps satisfied their urge to document ideas and that later generations now work quietly without public branding.  
- The Heartbleed vulnerability prompted sharing of a mass-testing script (https://github.com/musalbas/heartbleed-masstest/blob/master/ssltest.py) and discussion of memory-safety gaps: C programs can explicitly zero sensitive buffers, whereas Python, Ruby, and Java runtimes offer no direct control over heap cleanup.  
- A CERN ALICE/LHC coordination paper (http://cds.cern.ch/record/677286) was presented as a case study in distributed constraint-satisfaction problems, showing that 30 000 interdependent tasks over 15 years yields a search space of 131 400^30 000 possible schedules, illustrating the limits of centralized planning.  
- Stanford’s “A model for quantifying information leakage” (http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/1046/1/VLDB_SDM_CameraReady.pdf) was shared as a practical framework for measuring privacy loss and stalking risk.  
- An ArXiv preprint (1303.6739, http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1303/1303.6739.pdf) reportedly drew a takedown request, underscoring friction between open-access sharing and intellectual-property claims.