- A $1,325 USD promotion offers 30× whole-genome sequencing on Illumina HiSeq X-Ten with ≤8-week turnaround, highlighting rapidly falling consumer genomics prices.  
- QQ’s Weiyun service gives every account 10 TB of free cloud storage, illustrating the scale of consumer-grade data warehousing now available.  
- The Internet Archive’s 9.6 PB “PetaBox” infrastructure was discussed as a model for large-scale, open digital preservation, prompting questions about how individuals can participate.  
- A thought experiment described a super-intelligence whose effective complexity doubles every minute, raising issues about the futility and risk of sending probes whose findings would be obsolete before arrival.  
- A paper arguing “Limited memory can be beneficial for the evolution of cooperation” was shared, suggesting cognitive constraints may aid multi-agent coordination.  
- Links to quantum-mechanics papers included an analysis claiming the uncertainty principle underpins quantum nonlocality and an entropic-uncertainty-relations survey, alongside a lament that Bohmian approaches are academically marginalized.  
- Security tools circulated: LaZagne (local password recovery), vDiscover (ML-driven vulnerability discovery), and an open-source ransomware-removal kit.  
- A critique of NaCl noted it is an academic, misuse-resistant crypto interface rather than a general-purpose open-source library, with libsodium positioned as the practical alternative.  
- Anecdotes from the OKCoin contract dispute mocked the exchange for having its lawyer rely on Google Translate, underscoring professionalism gaps in the Bitcoin ecosystem.