- A new Google Japan April-Fools-style video showcased a “Gboard double-sided version” with capacitive keys that can be used as a touchpad, prompting discussion about Japanese text-entry pain points and the practicality of the design compared to the Anthy input method.  
- Participants highlighted “Deep Nostalgia”–style deepfake tech as a compelling consumer use-case for generative AI, while simultaneously joking that the same technology will inevitably be repurposed for adult content.  
- A tongue-in-cheek claim that Google is secretly working on a brain-computer interface (BCI) was floated, supported by a link to a spoon-bending “mind control” demo that was quickly debunked as simple sleight-of-hand with fishing line.  
- DIYhpluswiki commits added transcripts of the February 2021 Sydney Bitcoin Socratic Seminar and Sjors Provoost’s talk on Taproot activation lock-in-on-timeout (LOT), expanding the open archive of cryptocurrency governance discussions.  
- A user asked how to extract the genomic.fna and genomic.gbff files from NCBI’s new coronavirus protein dataset portal; the community quickly pointed them to the correct download page.  
- The Nym network whitepaper (nymtech.net/nym-whitepaper.pdf) was shared, introducing a mix-net-based privacy protocol aimed at metadata-resistant communications for future decentralized systems.