• OpenFASOC, an open-source framework for automatically generating analog and mixed-signal ASICs from high-level specifications, was shared as a GitHub link (https://github.com/idea-fasoc/OpenFASOC).

• GPU side-channel attack research was referenced via a downloadable archive (https://www.hertzbleed.com/gpu.zip/) that likely documents timing-based leakage from graphics processors.

• A comprehensive 2023 survey on zero-knowledge proofs and arguments was circulated (https://people.cs.georgetown.edu/jthaler/ProofsArgsAndZK.pdf), offering an up-to-date academic overview of the field.

• A new transcript covering Amber Scott’s talk on “regulatory miracle” strategies for emerging technologies was added to the diyhpluswiki (http://diyhpluswiki/transcripts/proof-of-work-summit/2023/regulatory-miracle/).

• Discussion of high- versus low-trust societies framed Japan as a contemporary high-trust example, with participants debating the practical and cultural challenges Westerners face when attempting to immigrate there.

• The indie game “Last Call BBS” was highlighted for containing playable cellular-automata and photolithography CAD puzzles, including a remake of Zachtronics’ earlier chip-layout game “KOHCTPYKTOP: Engineer of the People.”

• A YouTube video demonstrating GPT-4 playing Minecraft autonomously (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTg39rNMojo) was shared, prompting skepticism about whether any real-time performance metrics had ever been released.

• A study reporting a “Flynn effect”-like rise in cognitive performance among laboratory rodents over recent decades was linked (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289622000812), raising questions about environmental or methodological drivers.