- A PNAS paper on “Wireless power transfer to deep-tissue microimplants” was circulated, highlighting real-time dynamic focusing as a path to powering sub-millimeter implanted devices without batteries.  
- The group debated the legal gray zone of integrated-circuit layout designs, noting that mask works are protected by a sui-generis “layout-design right” that sits outside both copyright and patent regimes.  
- Anders Sandberg & Nick Bostrom’s 2008 “Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap” was re-posted, prompting concern that Sandberg has shifted from brain emulation to insurance-risk modeling at FHI.  
- A home Raman spectroscopy project is underway to replicate Ben Krasnow’s yeast-analysis setup; the missing optical filter is being sourced and a custom ADC driver PCB is headed to OSHPark, partly motivated by the Hackaday “Open Hardware to Space” contest whose grand prize is a civilian spaceflight.  
- Open CASCADE Technology (OCCT) is being reverse-engineered and documented; commits reveal call-tree analysis and a timeline of 140 k+ source files, with industrial users including BMW, RINA shipbuilding, AREVA NP, and DBM Reflex.  
- The FDA’s reclassification of the AliveCor ECG device as OTC and the Welldoc diabetes app as a pharmaceutical drug is viewed as a precedent that “apps are drugs,” raising fears that software regulation will outpace agile, open-source health innovation.  
- Vinod Khosla’s white paper “20 % Doctor Included” is circulated as a mainstream vision of automated healthcare, but criticized for weak engagement with regulatory incentives and a passive stance toward FDA constraints.  
- A parable equating fear of accepting a free beer with innovators’ reluctance to share medical tools openly illustrates how legal uncertainty and over-regulation can stifle even trivial generosity.