- Bitcoin could automatically create Tor hidden services for listening nodes using stem’s ephemeral hidden service API, eliminating manual configuration and potentially increasing the number of onion nodes.  
- A missing ampersand in C++ code once crashed a Bitcoin client, echoing the famous Mariner Venus satellite crash caused by a Fortran typo.  
- Researchers performed the first high-throughput whole-organism drug screen in a vertebrate model, testing 3,348 approved drugs on over 500,000 zebrafish embryos to find pancreatic growth promoters.  
- A dexterous robot now performs brain surgery on alert adult fruit flies, inserting fiber optics smaller than human skin cells for high-content neural imaging while the flies are held by gentle suction.  
- Merkle’s Puzzles were explained as a simple key-exchange scheme where Bob sends many encrypted puzzles and Alice solves one, forcing eavesdroppers to solve all of them.  
- Discussion highlighted zero-knowledge cryptography as “the new public-key,” enabling anonymous trust relationships and new classes of applications.  
- The Roko’s Basilisk incident was framed as a cautionary tale about fatalist absolutist communities and poor community management, not a literal AI torture threat.