Click image for larger version  It pops up randomly when I'm using my phone. However, it ALWAYS pops up when I open Google maps. It then seems to emulate a repeated clicking motion, which freezes my phone to the point I have to do a hard restart.  I am using am HTC One m8  (I'm not sure about this but I'm pretty sure I saw a literal mouse cursor come out of the blue dot one day)  I'm naming it the BDOD (Blue Dot Of Death)
Forgive me for the unclear title. Some time ago, my HTC M8, which is rooted and runs on a  showed something weird. Firstly, in the Google Maps App a mysterious blue dot appeared, that captures the screen completely and makes it impossible to quit or use the application. It looks like this (I could make a screenshot)     When this happens in Maps, the only thing I can do is a hard restart with Power+Volume Up.  Since I have seen this occasionally in the camera app as well, I suspect it is not a bug of Maps itself. I know that the Venom ROM is not standard but maybe this is connected to some setting and anyone has seen this. Btw, the Venom ran smoothly for almost 3 years now.  Question: Has someone a clue what this could be and how I can get rid of it?
So I am on my college network which requires me to sign in to the browser before I start using the internet. I do so succesfully but on a clean install of Ubuntu, when I try to do sudo apt update, I get the following output:  $ sudo apt update Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [2,847 B] Err:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                     Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NOSPLIT' (does the network require authentication?) Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [2,854 B]     Err:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease              ... Get:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [2,855 B]    Err:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease ... Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [2,857 B] Err:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NOSPLIT' (does the network require authentication?) Fetched 11.4 kB in 0s (18.3 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done E: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease  Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NOSPLIT' (does the network require authentication?) ... E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.   But when I do wget http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease, I get this output success:  2017-04-01 05:34:57  http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease Resolving in.archive.ubuntu.com (in.archive.ubuntu.com)... 91.189.88.162, 91.189.88.149, 91.189.88.152, ... Connecting to in.archive.ubuntu.com (in.archive.ubuntu.com)|91.189.88.162|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 246846 (241K) Saving to: ‘InRelease.3’  InRelease.3         100%[===================&gt;] 241.06K   110KB/s    in 2.2s      2017-04-01 05:35:00 (110 KB/s) - ‘InRelease.3’ saved [246846/246846]   Clearly I have internet access from my browser and on wget but when I do sudo apt (or apt-get) update I get this error.  PS: This question is not similar to other threads as their solutions do not seem to work on mine        As I have found out, this problem is happening only to me, not others on the college network. Despite setting up the network according to instructions, this still happens. Any more help would be appreciated  EDIT: So as it turns out, 50% of us in the college are facing this issue, while 50% aren't despite having no issues with the hardware and sudo apt update before the last week. Thanks to @David Foerster for helping me throughout all this time.  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