- Jiankui He, the scientist who created the first gene-edited babies, reported on Twitter that he was physically assaulted in a parking lot after being recognized as “the gene-editing guy,” highlighting ongoing personal risk for high-profile bio-researchers.  
- Participants debated whether a small set of SNPs could account for most intelligence variation and whether such knowledge might be classified for national security; consensus leaned toward the secret being too hard to keep given widespread academic scrutiny.  
- A new cryptographic protocol claimed to achieve sub-3-round signatures without malleability resistance; skeptics noted impossibility proofs for non-malleable schemes and linked to the project’s GitHub (https://github.com/brollup/noist) and a critical tweet (https://x.com/n1ckler/status/1835609767739363340).  
- Reach Air’s $99/year household medi-vac insurance (https://reachair.com/membership) was shared as an inexpensive air-ambulance coverage option, prompting curiosity about analogous ground-ambulance insurance.  
- A pre-print on temporal interference stimulation (TIS) demonstrated that two-electrode kilohertz stimulation can reproduce TIS effects without requiring high-frequency carrier interference in tissue, potentially simplifying non-invasive brain stimulation setups (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.06.611584v1).