- The U.S. government settled with Defense Distributed, allowing Cody Wilson to resume distribution of open-source gun-making software—an important milestone for open-source hardware and 1st-Amendment debates.  
- A PETS 2018 paper titled “Privacy Pass: Bypassing Internet Challenges Anonymously” was shared, describing a cryptographic protocol that lets users solve CAPTCHAs once and obtain unlinkable tokens for future anonymous browsing.  
- Harvard Personal Genome Project and George Church launched a “Memory Challenge” survey recruiting individuals with exceptional memory to study genetic and cognitive correlates of high-performance memory.  
- A tweet-thread highlighted an experimental brain-emulation approach: serially slicing post-mortem brains and reverse-engineering them into high-resolution 3-D connectome models for whole-brain emulation.  
- OpenSCAD workflow discussion: a GitHub gist shows how Python scripts are used to overcome OpenSCAD’s limitations (immutable variables, slow array ops) by pre-generating geometry, prompting debate on polygon-count defaults and mesh quality in 3-D printing.  
- Participants debated what generation label should follow “Gen Z,” jokingly proposing “Gen W” (referencing 3-D graphics coordinates x, y, z, w) and “Generation Spazz.”