- The Human Brain Project’s European HPC infrastructure was reportedly under active cyber-attack, with at least one successful penetration and several systems taken offline; participants debated motives ranging from anti-AI activists and “reprobates” to collateral damage from broader conflicts.  
- Archels noted that COVID-19 molecular-dynamics simulations are running on the same European supercomputers, raising the possibility that the attack was aimed at pandemic research rather than neuroscience data.  
- A link to the official eBrains.eu incident statement was shared (https://drive.ebrains.eu/).  
- fenn proposed a radical educational model in which each student receives an annual budget equivalent to a teacher’s salary to purchase equipment and hire mentors, with all acquired gear becoming permanent school property; Sudbury Valley’s democratic budgeting was cited as a partial precedent.  
- Discussion followed on whether children should be shielded from market realities or exposed early to budgeting and resource allocation to foster responsibility.  
- Justin Atkin’s lactose-tolerance gene-therapy self-experiment video was circulated (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoczYXJeMY4), along with his Medium essay on learning via extreme DIY experimentation, including building a nuclear reactor from scrap (https://medium.com/@justinatkin/building-a-nuclear-reactor-out-of-garbage-and-why-experimentation-should-be-central-to-learning-d3ea8fa15599).  
- superkuh expressed surprise at recent findings on chitin transport across cell membranes, hinting at potential bioengineering applications.  
- kanzure shared a die-photo reverse-engineering article on the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound chip (http://www.righto.com/2017/04/reverse-engineering-76477-space.html) and Bitcoin covenant-related reading notes (https://pastebin.com/rDwpkiVA).