- A new 2018 biorxiv preprint (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/303156v1) describes “SECReTE,” a short RNA motif that localizes mRNAs to the endoplasmic reticulum and dramatically boosts secretion of heterologous proteins when appended to their transcripts.  
- Discussion of plausible deniability in privacy systems: participants debated whether offering deniability (e.g., in IOTA cryptocurrency mixers) paradoxically becomes evidence of guilt under certain legal or adversarial reasoning frameworks.  
- A contributor noted that their informal comments on IOTA privacy were cited in Laurence Tennant’s paper “Improving the Anonymity of the IOTA Cryptocurrency,” illustrating how unpublished community dialogue can still propagate into academic literature.  
- DIYHPlusWiki received an update: Adlai Chandrasekhar submitted a “non-exhaustive gapfilling” transcript of Scaling Bitcoin Milan JoinMarket talks, expanding the open archive of decentralized-finance and privacy-tech discourse.  
- A brief exchange clarified why genetic drift proceeds faster in smaller populations: reduced sample size amplifies random allele-frequency fluctuations between generations.