- National Academies workshop on 25 Feb 2025 examined the dual-use risks of publishing in-silico models and computational designs of biological agents and organisms, highlighting growing policy tension around open science and biosecurity.  
- Northeastern University announced a new “additive, bottom-up” micro-electronics manufacturing process; participants compared the press release to a recent Wiley paper on directed-assembly nanofabrication and noted the absence of technical details or recent patents from the Busnaina group.  
- Cortical Labs released CL1, a commercial “biological computer” that interfaces 8 × 8 micro-electrode arrays sampling at 25 kHz with cultured neurons; users criticized the scant public specs on tissue type, channel count, bandwidth, and pricing.  
- A LessWrong post titled “Methods for Strong Human Germline Engineering” was circulated, prompting kanzure to archive supplementary resources at diyhpluswiki under gene-editing.  
- Discussion sought the smallest, fastest code-editing LLM for tasks like indentation and file-splitting; Qwen-2.5-Coder was suggested as a candidate.  
- kanzure previewed a draft essay on “cultivation of temporal abundance,” arguing that delegation, parallelization, and relinquishing control paradoxically expand perceived time and reduce anxiety-driven inefficiency.