- A WHO advisory committee urged the creation of a global registry for all human-genome-editing research and asked journals and funders to require registration; it declared proceeding with clinical germline editing “irresponsible” but stopped short of an outright moratorium.  
- kanzure floated a still-undisclosed scheme to make human-embryo genetic modification “free for everyone” without resorting to population-wide viral gene therapy, noting it carries a “pretty big downside.”  
- Discussion of secure key custody favored air-gapped commodity hardware over “secure elements,” with regret that the smartcustody.com workshop material had not covered multisig setups.  
- A Medium post on fully-offline Bitcoin transactions (https://medium.com/@notgrubles/completely-offline-bitcoin-transactions-4e58324637bd) was circulated as a practical reference for cold-storage workflows.  
- Chinese CRISPR researcher Yang Hui was reported to be racing to develop a new, off-target-free base editor after his recent Science paper on unintended mutations (tweet: https://twitter.com/RLCscienceboss/status/1104991257514950656).  
- glims’ Facebook post (https://www.facebook.com/gabriel.licina/posts/10157054049929603) sought broader validation and acceptance of biohacker contributions to science.  
- A Harvard/STAT poll from January 2016 on public attitudes toward genetic technologies (https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/94/2016/01/STAT-Harvard-Poll-Jan-2016-Genetic-Technology.pdf) was shared as background on societal acceptance.  
- von-strauss criticized mainstream OOP and Java culture, arguing that homoiconicity or strong type systems make “corporate design patterns” unnecessary, yet accepted a Java-dev job offer the same day.