• Sailfish X, a POSIX-based open-source mobile OS, is now shipping for the Sony Xperia X, giving transhumanists a privacy-respecting platform for on-body sensors and bio-apps.

• Google’s “Transformer” neural-network architecture, built on attention mechanisms for machine translation, is being hailed as a path to unsupervised extraction of semantic networks and a leap toward AGI-level speech-to-text beyond Deep Speech.

• DIY biohacker David Ishee intends to use CRISPR to edit Dalmatian sperm to cure uric-acid disease and is openly discussing civil disobedience against FDA rules that classify edited genomes as veterinary drugs.

• Experiments with non-invasive electrical stimulation up the human nasal cavity failed to evoke any smell perception, suggesting that temporal-spatial patterns of receptor activation, not just electrode size, are critical for olfactory BCIs.

• A low-cost 200-channel tactile BCI concept uses modified earphone coils and ferromagnetic beads glued to scalp hair to create sub-hertz magnetic actuation as a covert input channel for wearable systems.

• Researchers are exploring olfactory enhancement by swapping human olfactory-receptor genes with elephant versions and delivering intranasal stem cells to grow designer odor receptors, while canine studies indicate airflow and neuronal density—not gene count—dominate high-performance olfaction.

• An offshore herpes-vaccine trial funded by Peter Thiel is under federal investigation for bypassing ethics-board approval, spotlighting the regulatory gray zone faced by radical biotech startups.

• Bryan Bishop released a full transcript of Gregory Maxwell’s technical walkthrough of Bitcoin Core v0.15, documenting performance upgrades and protocol changes relevant to decentralized transhumanist infrastructure (http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-2017-08-28-deep-dive-bitcoin-core-v0.15/).