- A Nature Biotechnology paper on single-nuclei DNA-seq of human neurons (ages 4 months–82 years) shows that somatic single-nucleotide variants rise roughly linearly with age and accumulate faster in the hippocampus, with even higher loads in neurodegenerative disease.  
- DensePose (densepose.org) was highlighted as a new open-source Facebook/Meta project that maps all human pixels in an image to a 3D surface model of the body, enabling fine-grained pose and motion capture.  
- Mozilla’s DeepSpeech (github.com/mozilla/deepspeech) was discussed as the current state-of-the-art open-source speech-to-text engine, outperforming PocketSphinx, Siri, Google Voice, and Yandex APIs when properly trained.  
- A DIY wiki page was updated with performance-oriented links and notes on Bulletproofs, a zero-knowledge proof system that can be implemented in under 7 KB for discrete-log–based protocols.  
- A Reddit thread on ECE pricing for ASIC fabrication (reddit.com/r/ECE/comments/7hjlpg) was shared, offering concrete cost data for small-run chip design relevant to open-hardware bio/neuro projects.  
- A microchains backlink was added to the Scaling Bitcoin Stanford 2017 transcript, summarizing research on lightweight sidechain-like structures that could support decentralized transhumanist data or health-record networks.