Their design is so much non-private that they had to mention a "strict no-logging policy" on their servers.

Qualcomm has an error in the 7g3 brochure, this SoC doesn't support 4k60 encoding and you can verify it in every possible way (I did).

I've heard people are interested in reading more, this is one additional resource that describes completely authoritative use of content credentials that includes concepts like app whitelisting:
https://security.googleblog.com/2025/09/pixel-android-trusted-images-c2pa-content-credentials.html

I wanted to post this pic and say I miss Syncthing Lite, meanwhile it's resurrected and I didn't notice, wtf.

https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-lite/

Yes, we deserve file browsing over P2P without constantly running Tailscale that occupies your Android VPN slot. To get "normal people" off the cloud, you need syncing and browsing that works between their phone, tablet, wife and her husband, while the only laptop at home is sleeping.

The dev handling it is fresh and kinda odd, don't get your hopes up :( There's a mini-drama regarding that at https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues/16.

Want to clean up your storage, but have no idea where to even start? It's simple and psychologically effective and assumes you're already in a root shell of your terminal:
cd /data/
du -ma . -d 100 |sort -n

No, -d doesn't stand for deletion of your files, it's depth. You'll get a relatively quickly generated list of largest directories and files sorted by size in less than 20 seconds unless you check on a desktop with HDD.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NothingTech/comments/1peea5e/ive_found_one_source_of_40_battery_drain/

The worst thing about bloatware is system integration that doesn't make it possible to cut it off without consequences.

(It's something I gotta give to the straightforward uninstallation argument – there's a higher chance that the system won't insist to run an app that was intentionally removable)

Oppo Find X7U is now unintentionally bootloader unlockable for free, presumably as long as it's not updated too far.

Congrats 9to5Google for misinformation 🥰

You don't have to ask engineers, you don't have to ask nerds. Ask any global shutter camera owner if they're exempt from motion blur.
Rolling shutter causes a movement distortion and motion blur is ironically capable of hiding it. Global shutter would be the natural next step after solving dynamic range. But will single frame quality be good enough to alleviate the concern of noise increase the global shutter sensors are known from? Time will tell.

List updated.

Imagine trying to figure it out in 2012:
- Damn, this high-end phone actually sucks in use.
- You know what to do.
- No, bank apps won't let me.

To be clear, it's as mechanical as a mousewheel, it doesn't control the optics physically. That's probably for the better in the sense of design fragility, but third party app support can be funky.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/i-switched-to-esim-in-2025-and-i-am-full-of-regret/

The correct future would be eSIMs downloaded onto removable eUICCs. Sadly, adoption of removable eUICCs only gives a signal to phone vendors through carriers that "eSIMs are getting more popular", ending up in reduced number of physical slots on devices.

https://nebelwelt.net/blog/2025/1227-fiasco.html
Hi Google, please kindly downgrade probably millions or at least hundreds of thousands of Redmi Note 11S units to MEETS_DEVICE_INTEGRITY, thanks.

iOS preloads the stock camera as soon as your finger is placed on the icon of home screen.

https://blog.jgc.org/2025/12/if-you-care-about-security-you-might.html

Finding that out must've felt similar to discovering that Samsung phones randomly vibrate when auto brightness hits max (except that it sounds like a bug).

BTW, think of it as a litmus test for every "reputable" """keybox extractor""" wannabe (I'm speaking of all keybox sellers who claim to extract them from devices rather than OEM leaks) who won't manage to do anything despite the writeup. Since it couldn't be reliably sold (keyboxes are mostly model/batch-specific, not unit-specific, duh, you're probably lied to by an incentivized person if you're told otherwise), it'd be excellent for promotion of a monetized venture. And yet you likely won't see it for the first time from any such a place. At best, you'll see some AI slop gibberish on why publishing it would be irresponsible, while irl it's just skill issue at dealing with EL3 pwn-ed hw.

BTW, if anyone knows how many keyboxes were ever provisioned in total to RN11S, lemme know, comparing the output from https://github.com/vvb2060/KeyAttestation across different manufacturing date and regions will suffice.