• The NSA’s SKYNET program—an algorithmic metadata-analysis system for drone targeting in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Somalia—was highlighted as generating ~99,000 false positives, prompting discussion about the dangers of automated warfare and predictive policing.

• A trove of early cypherpunk history was made available: Jenda shared a 1992-1998 archive of the cypherpunks@toad.com mailing list at https://jenda.hrach.eu/m/cypherpunk/, and kanzure mirrored Bill St. Clair’s earlier tarball at http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/cypherpunks/cypherpunks-199209-199812.tar.bz2.

• kanzure circulated several cryptographic papers: the 1990 “Undeniable signature systems” patent (US4947430A), Bootle’s note on Pippenger’s multi-exponentiation algorithm, Bernstein et al.’s “Faster batch forgery identification,” and a modular-exponentiation batch-verification paper relevant to Bitcoin scaling.

• Links to the full 2015 International Summit on Human Gene Editing were posted: three days of video (Vimeo albums 3703972, 3704161, 3704249), the summit’s commissioned background papers (PDF), and a review article on integrating corrective genome editing into IVF under varying international regulatory regimes.

• A new IACR pre-print on watermarking deep-learning models (eprint 2018/311) was circulated, raising questions about intellectual-property protection and model integrity in open-source AI development.

• An arXiv paper on motivations of FLOSS core developers (1803.05741) was shared, offering empirical data relevant to community-driven transhumanist and biohacking projects.