Topics: 

Core Dev:

0.9.3rc1 Released
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.9.3rc1/doc/release-notes.md (draft)

Github Issues/Pull requests
https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/e20c3b5a1d4b97f79ac2#comment[masked]
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4764
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4701
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4687

Blockchain Data Torrent Updated
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2eekr8/ann_bitcoin_blockchain_data_torrent_updated_to/

Outbound Connection Rotation
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bitcoin.devel/6106

High Speed Relay Network
https://bitcoinfoundation.org/2014/08/a-bitcoin-backbone/

Byzantine Cycle Mode
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=752260.0

Historical Hashrate Distribution
http://organofcorti.blogspot.se/2014/08/169-another-short-post-on-mapping.html

Satoshi’s Hashrate
http://organofcorti.blogspot.se/2014/08/167-satoshis-hashrate.html
http://organofcorti.blogspot.se/2014/08/168-little-more-on-satoshis-blocks_15.html

Weekly Hashrate
http://organofcorti.blogspot.se/2014/08/august-24th-2014-weekly-bitcoin-network.html

Misc:

Monitor P2SH Adoption
http://p2sh.info/

Ripple Consensus Issue
https://ripple.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4118&sid=1be310a28e36972b122b18802a868dfb&start=20

Presentations:

• Vitalik Buterin - Ethereum

• Shawn Wilkinson - Storj