1. OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse Total comment counts : 19 Summary On 2026-01-20, OnePlus updated its privacy policy (valid until 2026-02-20). Separately, ColorOS 16.0.3.501 introduced a hardware anti-rollback fuse for OnePlus 13, 15, and Ace 5 series, permanently preventing downgrades or custom ROMs. The Qualcomm QFPROM e-fuses are irreversibly blown during updates; older firmware leads to a hard brick, unrecoverable by software. No official comment yet....

1. BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp Total comment counts : 26 Summary BirdyChat becomes the first European chat app to exchange messages with WhatsApp under the Digital Markets Act. It enables 1:1 chats with WhatsApp users via phone numbers, with end-to-end encryption, for messages, photos, and files. Use your work email as your identity, keeping work in BirdyChat while staying connected to WhatsApp. This reduces the need to switch apps, helping work conversations stay organized....

1. Unrolling the Codex agent loop Total comment counts : 5 Summary error Overall Comments Summary Main point: Discussion centers on Codex internals (reasoning tokens persisting through the agent tool loop but discarded after each user turn), strategies to preserve cross-turn context (like markdown progress updates), and personal experiences comparing Codex CLI to other LLM CLIs. Concern: Context continuity across related turns is at risk due to token discard, potentially hindering multi-step tasks....

1. GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers Total comment counts : 65 Summary GPTZero analyzed 4,841 NeurIPS 2025 papers and found hundreds of hallucinated citations, with 100 confirmed hallucinations across 51 papers not flagged by reviewers. Using its Hallucination Check tool, the study shows AI-driven submissions, paper mills, and publication pressure straining the peer-review process. Despite a 24.52% main-track acceptance rate, these papers beat out about 15,000 other submissions while containing hallucinations....

1. FreeBSD Total comment counts : 9 Summary The FreeBSD Handbook introduces FreeBSD and guides installation and daily use for versions 15.0-RELEASE, 14.3-RELEASE, and 13.5-RELEASE. It credits ongoing contributor effort and notes some sections may be outdated. Readers are invited to help update via the FreeBSD documentation project mailing list. The latest version is on the FreeBSD website; older versions at docs.FreeBSD.org. The handbook is downloadable in various formats from the FreeBSD download server or mirrors, and searchable on the site....

1. The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight Total comment counts : 17 Summary On Hoover Dam’s western flank lies Monument Plaza, a little-known installation featuring winged bronzes and a central flagpole. Its terrazzo floor functions as a celestial map marking the dam’s completion by the Earth’s 25,772-year axial precession—a 26,000-year clock the author ties to Long Now’s 10,000-Year Clock. Commissioned by the Bureau of Reclamation around 1931, the plaza remains poorly documented....

1. What came first: the CNAME or the A record? Total comment counts : 22 Summary An update to 1.1.1.1 to reduce memory usage inadvertently changed the order of DNS records, placing CNAMEs at the bottom of answers instead of upfront. Some resolvers rely on CNAMEs appearing first to follow alias chains, causing resolution failures when expected names don’t match. A memory-optimization change merged CNAMEs into the existing answer list rather than building a fresh chain, triggering failures in glibc getaddrinfo and Cisco DNSC; most clients (e....

1. Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky “Helicopter” music video Total comment counts : 23 Summary AP Rocky’s Helicopter uses volumetric performance capture and dynamic Gaussian splatting. Evercoast captured nearly every human performance in 3D with a 56-camera RGB-D array, producing over 10 TB of raw data and about 30 minutes of final splatted footage (1 TB PLY). The team used Houdini, CG Nomads GSOPs, and OctaneRender, enabling relighting of splats for a 3D-video look....

1. ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering Total comment counts : 47 Summary An image-to-ASCII renderer focusing on sharp edges and shape-based rendering. The author discusses why traditional ASCII rendering yields blurry edges (treating characters as pixels due to downsampling). Demonstrations include an interactive cube, an animated Cognition page scene, and a ChatGPT-generated Saturn image; a cel-shading-like contrast enhancement improves region separation for clearer 3D edges....

1. Cloudflare acquires Astro Total comment counts : 72 Summary Astro Technology Company, creator of the Astro web framework, is joining Cloudflare to accelerate development of content-driven websites. With ~1M downloads weekly and adoption by Webflow, Wix, Microsoft, and Google, Astro will use Cloudflare’s resources while remaining free, open-source, and MIT-licensed. Astro will stay platform-agnostic with open governance and a community-driven roadmap. Past attempts at paid hosted primitives were not successful, so the focus remains on code and performance rather than business-building....