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.

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