- A new ReCaptcha bypass technique was demonstrated that achieves 91 % accuracy by requesting the audio challenge, downloading the MP3, feeding it to Google’s Speech-to-Text API, and returning the transcribed answer—highlighting a simple but effective adversarial use of Google’s own services.  
- Bryan Bishop published transcripts and reference links for three recent Bitcoin “Socratic seminars” (San Francisco 2018-12-11, Austin 2019-01-05, and Unchained Capital 2019-01-05) on the diyhpluswiki, preserving detailed technical discussions among cryptocurrency developers.  
- The diyhpluswiki repository commits show ongoing work to improve documentation infrastructure, with Bishop noting that ikiwiki rebuilds have become noticeably slow.