- Frankenstein RTX-A6000-class GPUs: Chinese gray-market vendors are re-balling RTX 4090 dies onto RTX 3090 PCBs and stacking 48 GB of GDDR6X to create unofficial workstation cards; the hack works because the 4090 and 3090 pin-outs are reportedly identical.  
- Ultimate limits of single-atom e-beam lithography: Participants asked whether 10¹²–10¹⁵ writes/second are physically attainable with single-atom probe tips, debating whether the bottleneck is electron-resist chemistry, beam-blanking electronics, or ion-beam dwell time in FIB systems.  
- TorchResist released: an open-source, differentiable resist-simulation package (GitHub: ShiningSord/TorchResist, arXiv:2502.06838) aimed at co-optimizing mask design and process parameters for sub-10 nm lithography.  
- NeuroCam ECoG array: a flexible, 4096-channel thin-film-transistor electrocorticography grid achieves 44 sites/mm² and 150 µm spatial resolution in vivo, demonstrated for high-resolution seizure mapping in rabbits (bioRxiv 2024.08.18.608446).  
- Reservoir computing with self-assembled nanoparticle percolation networks: new work shows spoken-digit classification using disordered nanoparticle films, suggesting ultra-low-power neuromorphic hardware can emerge from random conductive dendrites (Advanced Materials 2024).  
- Entropy of the Solar System vs. an equal-mass black hole: discussion invoking AdS/CFT, holographic entropy bounds, and the long-term chaotic evolution of planetary orbits versus information scrambling via Hawking radiation.  
- Electrical treeing and conductive dendrite growth: links to polymer-nanocomposite breakdown physics were shared, with the observation that fractal conductive filaments resemble random neuronal arborization on electrode surfaces.