- A new CVE-2014-7284 “NGRO” Linux-kernel vulnerability was highlighted: the kernel’s network-secret RNG lacks sufficient entropy, allowing remote fingerprinting via predictable IP-ID fields; a PoC tool (calcipid.c) and tcpdump recipes were shared for detection.  
- Transcriptic’s α-5 release was noted for changing its API so that sealing and lidding of plates/containers must now be explicitly instructed before thermocycling, breaking implicit behavior.  
- Francesco Capodieci posted a long critique of the “Bulletproof Executive / Bulletproof Diet” movement, arguing it cherry-picks weak studies to justify a low-carb, high-protein regimen while selling unproven supplements; he contrasted this with legitimate open-source lab-automation efforts aimed at biohackers.  
- Intel Labs published a public page on silicon-photonics-based “Optical PCI Express” interconnects for future servers (link circulated).  
- A set of open hardware links was shared: a PCB milling machine project (pcbwriter.github.io), a Lego Michelson interferometer with full parts lists and LXF files, and a desktop 6-axis robot arm (FLX-Arm from fluxintegration.com).  
- kanzure announced a merged pull request that fixes the map editor in the Pokémon reverse-engineering tools repository.  
- paperbot delivered two requested papers: “Improved vision and on-field performance in baseball through perceptual learning” (Current Biology) and a 1994 PubMed study on vision training.  
- ParahSailin pointed to Eureka Genomics’ CE-Seq cancer-exome sequencing service page as an example of non-NDA’d high-multiplex Illumina data.  
- Technical side-chatter covered cool-retro-term (Qt 5.2+ terminal), WeeChat vs irssi, and Merbinner Trees (a Merkleized key-value dictionary implementation in Python).