- A Polish patient regained consciousness from a coma after receiving an experimental brain-stimulator implant, reviving channel speculation that low-intensity ultrasound could evolve into a DIY neuromodulation alternative to tDCS.  
- Participants recalled earlier debates on ultrasonic stimulation of the cochlea and vestibular system, noting how initial skepticism mirrored early doubts about retinal-projection laser displays, which now exist as commercial products.  
- An open-access paper, “Can aging be programmed? A critical literature review,” was circulated; it concludes that no proposed “aging genes” survive rigorous scrutiny and that non-programmed evolutionary theories (Medawar-Hamilton-Charlesworth) still best explain senescence.  
- Coindesk coverage of Bitcoin scaling discussed the “Voldemort” nickname for Mimblewimble, with kanzure clarifying that his widely quoted remark originated from andytoshi on a podcast.  
- A viral tweet revealed that ~20 % of gene-name entries in scientific papers are corrupted by Excel’s automatic date-formatting default, underscoring a systemic data-quality problem in genomics literature.  
- Apple quietly added new SHA-256 extensions to macOS CodeDirectory; Bitcoin Core developers discovered that the open-source tool `ldid` fails to sign macOS bundles due to outdated resource-rule handling.  
- Rather than submitting an upstream patch, the Core team forked `ldid` into `osx-codesign`, published fixes on GitHub without notifying the original author, and sparked debate over declining collaborative norms in open-source development.  
- The 2016 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium live-stream and slide decks were shared, featuring talks on Philip Lubin’s “Directed Energy for Interstellar Study,” “Reconstituting Asteroids into Mechanical Automata,” “Tensegrity 1-g Growable Habitat,” and “Torpor-Inducing Transfer Habitats for Human Stasis to Mars.”  
- A concise chart comparing the effectiveness of software testing versus static type systems (http://kevinmahoney.co.uk/articles/tests-vs-types/) was circulated as a reference for language-design and verification discussions.