- The “Wait Calculation” paper (ResearchGate PDF) was shared as a framework for deciding when to launch an interstellar mission given the risk that future technology will overtake and outrun any craft we send today.  
- Discussion of GPS, Galileo and other GNSS constellations confirmed that satellites carry cesium, rubidium and hydrogen-maser atomic clocks and must correct for both special- and general-relativistic time dilation; a link to an orbital-time graphic illustrated the competing effects.  
- Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks (Microsemi CSAC) were highlighted as ultra-low-power, high-stability timing sources whose potential applications range from 5G base-stations to high-speed digital links that could eliminate traditional clock-recovery circuitry.  
- Two longevity-focused papers circulated: a Nature article on resetting circadian biology by “flipping” cellular clocks, and a Nature Communications study showing that SIRT6 over-expression restores energy homeostasis and extends healthy lifespan in mice.  
- A debate over HTTP vs HTTPS on open-source infrastructure touched on browser vendors deprecating <keygen>, the risks of ISP ad injection on unencrypted traffic, and pragmatic work-arounds such as Let’s Encrypt 301 redirects versus long-lived self-signed certificates.  
- Software Transactional Memory (STM) was judged unlikely to deliver high performance without dedicated hardware support, based on a survey of recent research.  
- An Indiegogo campaign for “Biohack the Planet,” a video series documenting DIY biology and transhumanist projects, was announced.