- A pre-print on bioRxiv (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/702746v1) was shared, reporting that adult-born hippocampal neurons exhibit an extended maturation timeline and possess morphological features that are clearly distinct from neurons generated during the neonatal period.

- A link to a Springer chapter on fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) applied to the SHA-256 hash function was circulated via Sci-Hub (http://sci-hub.tw/https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-45239-0_3), highlighting interest in privacy-preserving cryptographic computation.

- Two GitHub repositories showcasing generative adversarial networks (GANs) were highlighted: WarpGAN (https://github.com/seasonSH/WarpGAN) for photorealistic caricature generation and an “awesome-applications” list (https://github.com/nashory/gans-awesome-applications#anime-character-generation) that catalogs anime-character-generation models.

- Discussion surfaced about modern web practices: a participant observed that GitHub’s anchor links rely on JavaScript/CSS classes rather than standard HTML “a name” anchors, breaking functionality when JavaScript is disabled.

- Participants briefly lamented the state of “Web 2.0” design choices, noting the trend toward JavaScript-heavy interfaces that sacrifice basic web standards for perceived convenience.