- SpiNNaker 2, a 10-million-core neuromorphic processor, is expected to simulate >50 billion integrate-and-fire neurons in real-time, with mini 4-core boards available for home experimentation.  
- Discussion of whether the main bottleneck for whole-brain emulation is now software rather than hardware, given the rapid scaling of neuromorphic and GPU clusters.  
- “Molecular tickertapes” proposed as a method to record neural activity in real time by encoding spike data into DNA strands inside living neurons.  
- Ken Hayworth-style brain preservation protocols (TEM diamond-knife serial block-face scanning) were cited as the leading destructive route to extract full brain state.  
- A 1990s online “Nematode Upload Project” was noted as an early attempt at destructive scanning and uploading of simple nervous systems.  
- Stanford Blockchain Conference 2020 released ~100 MB of PDFs covering new consensus, privacy, and scalability research.  
- TPM.fail side-channel attacks against Intel SGX and AMD SEV were highlighted as evidence that secure enclaves are not inherently safe.  
- South Korean academics were again caught listing their children as co-authors on papers, prompting debate about authorship ethics and university-admission gaming.  
- Channel members explored whether keyboard or finger temperature measurably affects typing speed, noting a lack of published temperature-response data for keyboards.