- Sci-Hub has resumed operations and is adding new papers; participants note that the Indian court-imposed restriction period has simply expired, allowing the service to re-emerge.  
- Altos Labs, a new anti-aging venture, raised USD 270 million; its stated strategy is “pay professors a lot of money,” and one of its researchers, Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, is known for work on human-monkey chimeric embryos.  
- Participants observe that billionaire funding is shifting toward long-term longevity research, with some wishing more attention were given to near-term life-extension interventions.  
- A quick engineering calculation was shared: to contain 250 GPa pressures (as required for lanthanum-hydride superconductors), a steel cylinder would need roughly 1 m of wall thickness for every 1 mm of inner radius, implying that any practical superconducting core would have to be extremely thin.  
- A short video link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9uh-CyBMCs) was flagged as showing a “relatively easy to make” DIY project, though the specific device is not described in the log.