- Iris.ai, a Berlin-based AI literature-exploration tool, was highlighted in a Nature article; it maps thousands of relevant papers from a short problem description or paper URL and is offered both as a free basic service and a €20 k/yr premium tier for deeper queries.  
- A new paper, “Direct atomic fabrication and dopant positioning in Si using electron beams with active real-time image-based feedback” (IOPscience, 2018), was shared, prompting discussion about whether single-atom-scale devices will suffer faster dopant-diffusion degradation at elevated temperatures.  
- Participants debated the long-term reliability trade-offs of ever-smaller CMOS nodes, noting that older ICs survive more per-transistor switching events even if they deliver fewer FLOPS.  
- The possibility of moving beyond binary logic to multi-level voltage states was raised as a way to continue deterministic scaling while counting discrete states.  
- TLSNotary, TLS-N, and Timmy were examined as methods for cryptographically proving that a TLS web page (e.g., a bank statement) was served by a specific server, with the goal of enabling trustless, reputation-based decentralized exchanges.  
- OpenTimestamps and sign-to-contract (Comandini, 2018) were recommended as zero-marginal-cost ways to achieve trustless digital timestamping.  
- Practical frustration was voiced that banks still refuse to cryptographically sign transaction data for third-party verification, despite user requests and potential GDPR obligations.