• DreamerV3, a new reinforcement-learning agent, learns to mine diamonds in Minecraft from scratch in ~6 days of wall-clock training (17 days if starting tabula rasa) using only sparse reward signals and no expert demonstrations; the same system also controls virtual robots via vision or proprioception.  
• A companion open-source benchmark called “Crafter” (GitHub: danijar/crafter) provides a 2-D Minecraft-like environment for evaluating agents on long-horizon survival tasks.  
• Rejuvenate Bio reports that partial, cyclic expression of Yamanaka factors in aged mice extended median remaining lifespan from 9 to 18 weeks, documented in Nature Aging (2023) paper “In vivo partial reprogramming alters age-associated molecular changes during physiological aging in mice.”  
• Colossal Biosciences’ de-extinction program (e.g., dodo, woolly mammoth) is framed internally as a patent-generating platform: develop and license advanced avian and mammalian genetic-engineering IP to agriculture and biotech rather than as pure conservation.  
• Discussion of momentum-exchange tether networks for propellant-less cargo transport: long rotating tethers can fling lunar regolith to Earth orbit, exchange momentum with incoming payloads, and theoretically create a solar-system-wide energy-balanced logistics web.  
• Electrodynamic tethers—current-carrying wires in Earth’s magnetic field—can de-orbit space debris without propellant; demonstrated partially by the 1996 TSS-1R shuttle mission and proposed for active debris removal missions.  
• Atmospheric air-breathing electric thrusters (ESA prototype) could keep very-low-orbit satellites (<250 km) aloft despite drag, a contingency discussed if Kessler syndrome renders higher orbits unusable.  
• A 113-year-old woman’s body was donated to Science Care in Denver, offering a rare extreme-age cadaver for potential aging-research studies.  
• bunnie Huang’s recent hardware-security talk (YouTube: JMOWU6pFflw) and a short explainer video on decentralized science (DeSci) (YouTube: FgFeO-ry6Po) were circulated as reference material.