- A new IACR preprint titled “How to backdoor Diffie-Hellman” (eprint 2016/644) was circulated, highlighting cryptographic vulnerabilities relevant to secure communications in open-source transhumanist infrastructure.  
- A companion paper, “Computational integrity with a public random string from quasi-linear PCPs” (eprint 2016/646), was also shared, pointing toward zero-knowledge proof techniques that could be used for verifiable biological or neural data processing.  
- George Church’s WBUR Radio Boston interview on the future of whole-human-genome synthesis was noted, signaling continued momentum toward large-scale synthetic genomics projects.  
- SolveBio announced that Stephen Wolfram, George Church, Joel Dudley, and Yaniv Erlich have joined its Board of Advisors, underscoring the convergence of computational biology, AI, and genomic data platforms.  
- A curated reading list for a high-school student interested in neurology and transhumanism was compiled, anchored by the “Primer for Synthetic Biology” and spanning optogenetics, scalable neural interfaces, soft neuro-materials, whole-brain emulation feasibility, and large-scale brain modeling (BioSpaun).  
- Key neuroscience papers distributed include Boyden’s millisecond-scale optogenetic control study, Marblestone’s roadmap for scalable bio-interfaces, the 2015 Drosophila connectome information-flow analysis, and the Blue-Brain-derived neocortical microcircuit reconstruction and simulation paper.  
- Additional resources provided cover whole-brain imaging with single-cell resolution via chemical clearing, neuron-anatomy reconstruction algorithms, and Anders Sandberg’s comprehensive feasibility study on whole-brain emulation.