SMS
Coverage of SMS in the Nexus archive.
- Average billing not for all, submitting caste details optional: Bescom
Bescom clarified that average billing is not applicable to all consumers and that submitting caste details is optional. July's average electricity bills will be communicated exclusively via SMS and email.
- Watch out for “high paying, low effort” Amazon job texts
Job scammers are using SMS and messaging platforms to impersonate Amazon recruiters, offering fake high-paying remote roles with promises of $250–$500 daily for minimal work. The scams, often attributed to a 'Sophia' from Amazon’s recruiting department, direct victims to non-Amazon contact details and exploit 'task scam' tactics to extract money or personal data.
- Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family. You should too
The author created an emergency page to address concerns about losing their phone in Brazil, which sends SMS and email alerts with geolocation, IP address, and detailed messages. The project is open-source and designed to help users or others in emergencies.
- We just sent a transaction on a brand new Layer 1 blockchain with zero internet. Not a tunnel, not a wrapper, a full L1 built from scratch for offline.
Arxia is a new Layer 1 blockchain designed to function without internet infrastructure, using decentralized protocols like LoRa, Bluetooth, and SMS. It features a block lattice architecture, CRDT-based reconciliation, and Ed25519/Blake3 cryptography, with the first offline transaction tested between handheld devices in airplane mode.