- The imminent GPS “week-number rollover” (10-bit field, 19-year cycle) was flagged as a looming systems-level failure that has already occurred once (≈1999) and is about to repeat.  
- He Jiankui’s CRISPR-baby preprint was formally withdrawn from the journal registry; the stated reason was inability to supply individual participant data for safety/validity review.  
- Congress is expected to renew the U.S. ban on clinical creation of CRISPR-edited embryos, but passage is tied to the ongoing federal budget impasse.  
- James Watson’s latest comments on race and IQ were dissected; participants argued that if genetic cognitive differences exist, engineering—not censorship—is the ethical path to equity, and that current anti-discrimination law will likely evolve into “genetic-status” discrimination.  
- Discussion of post-scarcity economics referenced James Albus’s “People’s Capitalism,” the Bayh–Dole Act’s role in privatizing publicly funded research, and the idea that robot-driven abundance could decouple basic needs from employment while still preserving markets.  
- Long-term, high-risk R&D was framed as increasingly the domain of governments and nonprofits because private investors favor short payback periods; participants floated “FOMO-insurance” schemes to realign incentives.  
- New biology links added to the diyhpluswiki: RCAN1 (Down-syndrome critical region gene) as a regulator of metabolism/thermogenesis, and additional anti-obesity genetic targets.  
- Founders Fund released a podcast interview with biohacker Gabriel Licina (of “night-vision eyedrops” fame), highlighting open-source transhumanist experimentation.  
- Preprint “Fundamental bounds on learning performance in neural circuits” (bioRxiv 508994) was circulated as a theoretical contribution to understanding limits of biological and artificial learning systems.  
- Open hardware side-note: the Dactyl ergonomic keyboard project (fully 3-D-printed, parametric design) was praised for print quality achievable with aftermarket keycaps.