- MIT and DARPA have fabricated a complete lidar sensor on a single chip, a step expected to drive rapid cost reductions as autonomous-vehicle demand scales.  
- A 2015 Nature Nanotechnology paper claiming DNA sequencing via electrical conductance of a polymerase-transistor construct was formally retracted after an institutional investigation found the data irreproducible and raw records unavailable.  
- Two related U.S. patent applications (US20150065353, US20150017655) and a 2013 PMC article (PMC3738269) describe similar polymerase-based sequencing concepts, suggesting parallel lines of inquiry.  
- The Google Brain team hosted a Reddit AMA on machine-learning advances, providing direct access to researchers’ insights.  
- A crowd-sourced effort to defeat Pokémon GO’s anti-cheat “unknown6” token is underway, using IDA Pro, Frida, and Discord-based hive-mind coordination to reverse-engineer stripped native ARM code.  
- A 42 000-word transcript of the July 2016 California Bitcoin developers-and-miners gathering was released, documenting three days of technical debate (audio recordings were prohibited).  
- Google’s Security blog introduced “guided in-process fuzzing” for Chrome, a new automated vulnerability-discovery technique.  
- Metamath (us.metamath.org) was highlighted as a notable formal-mathematics resource.