The field of error-correcting codes and distributed computing is moving towards developing more efficient and robust algorithms for various applications. Recent works have focused on improving the performance of existing codes, such as Reed-Solomon codes, and exploring new coding techniques, like folded Reed-Solomon codes over Galois rings. Additionally, there is a growing interest in developing codes for specific use cases, such as DNA data storage and labeled DNA sequences. Noteworthy papers include: COOL Is Optimal in Error-Free Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement, which presents an adaptive variant of the COOL protocol for asynchronous Byzantine agreement. Efficient Vector Symbolic Architectures from Histogram Recovery, which proposes a noise-resilient vector symbolic architecture with formal guarantees regarding efficient encoding, quasi-orthogonality, and recovery. List Decoding of Folded Reed-Solomon Codes Over Galois Ring, which extends the list decoding procedure of Guruswami and Sudan to Reed-Solomon codes over Galois rings and investigates the list decoding of folded Reed-Solomon codes over Galois rings.