- A de-novo designed protein that exhibits autonomous motion has been reported in Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.abm1183), hailed as “the best project the Baker lab has ever done.”  
- Discussion of orbital-ring megastructures: participants argue that the oft-cited 100–200 kT mass is likely a significant over-estimate and that Paul Birch’s 180-million-ton “straw-man” example was misread as a cost floor, an error that persisted on Wikipedia for years.  
- Security research shared: a TrustZone rootkit for ARM (“Abusing Trust: Mobile Kernel Subversion via TrustZone Rootkits”) and an arXiv paper (2204.06974) detailing how undetectable backdoors can be planted in any deep-learning model.  
- Negative-utilitarian reasoning surfaced in AI-generated text—specifically the “benevolent world-exploder” argument that eliminating all life prevents suffering—prompting debate on the coherence and plausibility of such machine-generated moral systems.  
- A gallery of 1,000 AI-generated robot paintings (http://fennetic.net/1000_robots/) was released as raw JPGs, with plans for a future clickable prompt-indexed gallery.  
- Phys.org coverage of a newly demonstrated axle-rotor nanomachine was circulated, marking incremental progress toward synthetic molecular motors.