- A newly-published paper demonstrates that iPhone Bluetooth chips do not verify firmware signatures and can execute code even when the phone appears to be powered off, raising the possibility of running custom, “liberated” Bluetooth firmware on iOS devices (paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2205.06114.pdf, teaser video linked).  
- Amazon’s EC2 F1 FPGA instances ship with the full Xilinx Vivado Design Suite pre-installed and licensed at no extra software cost; the license is restricted to use on AWS F1 hardware, illustrating a cloud-provider–vendor partnership model for low-cost access to high-end EDA tools.  
- The long-running bitcoin-otc web-of-trust (WoT) is still operational; users report successful authentication with keys last used in 2014, highlighting the persistence of decentralized reputation systems.  
- Netflix is developing a Rick and Morty anime spinoff, previewed in an earlier short film, indicating continued mainstreaming of transhumanist-adjacent science-fiction themes.  
- A detailed statistical analysis of dice fairness (dakkadakka.com wiki) was shared, underscoring the community’s interest in rigorous measurement of even low-level gaming hardware.  
- Early reports of the 2022 monkeypox outbreak—including the first U.S. case in Massachusetts linked to Canadian travel—were circulated and compared to pandemic fiction such as “28 Days Later,” reflecting ongoing biohazard vigilance in the channel.