- DIY photochromic glass recipe shared: silver chloride (AgCl) plus 405 nm laser light reduces Ag⁺ to metallic silver, while copper oxide (CuO) in the glass re-oxidizes the silver back to AgCl, creating a reversible “photograph-like” effect.  
- Military-grade “invisible-dust” glass mentioned: PARC engineers have developed glass that shatters into ultra-fine, nearly invisible powder; it is used as a sacrificial cover for missile seeker lenses that is removed on impact.  
- GP-write call agenda excerpted: participants prioritized two future R&D goals—orders-of-magnitude cheaper long DNA synthesis and automated assembly pipelines capable of megabase-scale constructs.  
- Cost-gap claim from Bill Efcavitch: array-based oligo synthesis cost per base pair is ~12,000× lower than commercial vendor pricing, with the difference not primarily profit.  
- New 3-D chromatin imaging method “ChromEMT” highlighted: paper in Science shows how to visualize chromatin structure and compaction in intact interphase and mitotic cells.  
- Mozilla released an open-source speech-recognition stack: DeepSpeech engine, 500 k-voice Common Voice dataset, iOS app, and full GitHub repo linked.  
- Amazon Transcribe (AWS automatic speech-to-text service) announced and noted for potential integration with bio-logging or lab-note dictation workflows.  
- French Polynesia “floating island” seasteading project detailed: prototype autonomous platforms in Tahiti lagoons will test green tech, blockchain governance, and low-regulation research zones.  
- Curated links: Hackaday DIY photochromic glass tutorial, YouTube glass-engineering video, Octopart automated part-discovery blog post, and Pembient’s satirical “Pembicoin” ICO for synthetic rhino horn.