- A photonic computer claimed to be 10× faster than NVIDIA GPUs while using 90 % less energy was highlighted via a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1R7ElXEyag).  
- An open anti-aging intervention spreadsheet was discussed; participants debated whether the field is over-hyped and clarified that “OA” in the list refers to osteoarthritis.  
- A peer-reviewed paper on “Optical-Cavity-Induced Current” (Symmetry 2021, 13, 517) was shared, prompting superkuh to link his own experimental notes on persistent small-scale electrical currents (http://superkuh.com/blog/2020-02-25-1.html).  
- L29Ah introduced the Kryon Engine project (https://www.kryonengine.org/) that explores “persistent circles and magnets,” though its scientific credibility was questioned.  
- The New York Times article on OpenAI Codex (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/technology/codex-artificial-intelligence-coding.html) was noted for its claim that AI can now write and explain code in plain English.  
- Lawrence Kesteloot’s essay “Coding Machines” (https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/) was circulated, reviving concerns about compiler-level malware and the “trusting-trust” problem.  
- Guix’s stage0 bootstrap process was presented as a practical countermeasure to compromised toolchains, reducing the trusted binary seed by ~120 MB by replacing GCC, glibc, and Binutils with GNU Mes and MesCC Tools.