- BioCurious (Santa Clara, CA) is holding a town-hall meetup on 13 June 2017; participants are curious about the current status of the community’s open-source bioprinter project.  
- Aleph Objects (maker of LulzBot 3-D printers) is channeling funds into FreeCAD development through a Patreon campaign run by Yorik van Havre, highlighting a corporate–open-source collaboration model.  
- Agner Fog’s 2 000-page PDF “Microprocessor Microarchitecture and Assembly Optimization” (agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf) was circulated as a deep-dive reference for low-level CPU performance tuning.  
- A Nature Methods paper (doi:10.1038/nmeth.4293) reporting >1 000 off-target mutations after in-vivo CRISPR-Cas9 editing sparked discussion about the practical safety limits of current gene-editing protocols.  
- A Hacker News comment by a Parasolid kernel developer was shared, offering rare insider perspective on the complexities of commercial CAD geometry engines.