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The article shows how to turn a cheap Android phone into an SMS gateway using an open-source app, with both local and cloud modes, and a Next.js integration featuring a provider abstraction. It includes setup steps, security considerations, testing guidance, and a clear cost-benefit analysis that highlights significant savings over vendor SMS services. A practical blueprint for MVP workflows and self-hosted messaging infrastructure.
Scott Aaronson reports two recent quantum computing announcements: a fault-tolerance advance with high-rate codes and a lower-overhead Shor’s algorithm implementation, including a …
Anthropic reports that Claude Sonnet 4.5 exhibits internal emotion-like representations that are functional and influence behavior. The study builds emotion vectors mapping to conc…
The article argues that Lean is built entirely in Lean, enabling unprecedented internal growth through metaprogramming and a small trusted kernel. It highlights scalability, soundn…
IBM and Arm announce a strategic collaboration to develop dual-architecture hardware that enables AI and data-intensive workloads with greater flexibility, reliability, and securit…
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Google announces Gemma 4, the latest open-model family designed for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows. The four model sizes (E2B, E4B, 26B MoE, 31B Dense) offer on-device/offline capability with high efficiency, long context windows, multi-modal support (vision and audio), and broad language coverage; Gemma 4 is released under Apache 2.0 and supports integration with a wide ecosystem of tools and platforms.