• A Jetson-TK1-based open-source P2P framework is under development that distributes GPU-accelerated data collection and model-finding tasks across CUDA cores, targeting datasets from 100 KB to 30 TB with automatic load-balancing and small-world darknet routing to resist Sybil attacks; the full FOSS release is planned for March 2015.  
• UC San Diego researchers unveiled a nanoparticle solar-thermal material that converts 90 % of captured sunlight into heat at >700 °C, sparking discussion on its implications for high-temperature superconductivity research.  
• Two new Bitcoin-related tools were introduced: a libsnark-based zero-knowledge contingent-payment demo and “rr,” a deterministic replay debugger that records all non-deterministic inputs to help diagnose race conditions in consensus code.  
• PostgREST, a REST API that auto-generates endpoints for any PostgreSQL database, was highlighted as a lightweight backend solution for biohacking and data-driven projects.  
• Paperbot was updated to support multiple EZproxy endpoints for retrieving pay-walled papers, and participants shared direct PDF links to recent Neural Computation and machine-learning articles.  
• A Royal Society paper showing that individual variation in Facebook friend count correlates with grey-matter density in brain regions tied to social perception and memory was cited, prompting debate on the biological basis of online social behavior.  
• kanzure and cluckj debated evolutionary-psychology claims that human intelligence arose from unique life-history and mating patterns, questioning why similar runaway selection did not occur in other species over 500 million years.