Hacker Newsroom for 04 June: Gemma 4 12B, Meta Tracking Opt Out, Elixir Gradual Typing, Pwnd Blaster Attack

Hacker Newsroom for 04 June recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through gemma 4 12b, meta tracking opt out, elixir gradual typing, pwnd blaster attack. 1. Gemma 4 12B The next story is Google's Gemma 4 12B, a new multimodal model that sends vision and audio straight into the LLM backbone instead of using separate encoders, with Google pitching it as small enough to run locally on laptops with 16GB of RAM. The article says it offers near-26B benchmark performance, native audio input, Apache 2. Story link Hacker News discussion 2. Meta Tracking Opt Out The next story is Meta's decision to scale back a workplace tracking plan that would monitor clicks and keystrokes to help train AI, after employee backlash over privacy and battery drain. The news story says workers can now opt out for up to 30 minutes at a time, but the broader surveillance policy still remains in place. Story link Hacker News discussion 3. Elixir Gradual Typing The next story is Elixir v1. 20, which introduces gradual typing that can infer types without new annotations and surface verified bugs, dead code, and other runtime failures earlier. Story link Hacker News discussion 4. Pwnd Blaster Attack The next story is Pwnd Blaster, a security post about turning a Creative Katana V2X speaker into a remote attack device without ever touching it. The article shows that an attacker can talk to the speaker over Bluetooth without pairing, push custom firmware, and even make it impersonate a keyboard to type commands on a connected PC. Story link Hacker News discussion 5. Encephalitis Recovery The next story is a personal post about anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a rare autoimmune brain disorder that was first mistaken for anxiety and a psychiatric crisis, showing how serious neurological illness can hide behind ordinary-looking symptoms. The post walks through the progression from flu-like symptoms to jaw pain, balance problems, psychosis, emergency care, and finally treatment with IVIG and steroids, with a good prognosis and gradual recovery. Story link Hacker News discussion 6. MAI Code 1 Flash The next story is Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash, a new coding model built for GitHub Copilot and VS Code, with the company saying it was trained end to end on clean licensed data and tuned for real developer workflows. The article says it is meant to be fast and efficient, with adaptive thinking, lower token use, and benchmark results that Microsoft says beat Claude Haiku 4. Story link Hacker News discussion That's it for today, I hope this is going to help you build some cool things.