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  • Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do

    11/21/2023 11:56:32 AM PST · by Lonesome in Massachussets · 98 replies
    Motherboard (tech by VICE) ^ | November 20, 2023 | Matthew Gault
    Commercial air crews are reporting something “unthinkable” in the skies above the Middle East: novel “spoofing” attacks have caused navigation systems to fail in dozens of incidents since September. In late September, multiple commercial flights near Iran went astray after navigation systems went blind. The planes first received spoofed GPS signals, meaning signals designed to fool planes’ systems into thinking they are flying miles away from their real location. One of the aircraft almost flew into Iranian airspace without permission. Since then, air crews discussing the problem online have said it’s only gotten worse, and experts are racing to establish...
  • Appearing on The Space Show Today

    I am appearing on The Space Show today at 12:30 pm EST with Pete Wilhelm. Pete worked at the Naval Research Lab from 1959-2014 and knew many space pioneers including Wernher von Braun and Elon Musk. He has great stories. Listen live on the website or download a podcast.
  • Couple, Dog Killed In Grizzly Bear Attack At Banff National Park. ( Canada )

    10/02/2023 8:45:08 AM PDT · by george76 · 81 replies
    Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | October 02, 2023 | Kay Smythe
    Two people and their dog were found dead at Banff National Park on Saturday after a grizzly bear attack. A GPS device alerted Parks Canada on Friday night, indicating a bear attack was happening within the Red Deer River Valley region west of Ya Ha Tinda Ranch in Canada’s Banff National Park... Due to poor weather conditions, an emergency team reportedly could not fly to the location via helicopter, so they traveled by ground during the night. When the team arrived at the scene, they reportedly found two individuals who were deceased and ... The victim’s identities have not been...
  • Widow of man who died driving off collapsed bridge sues Google for directing him there

    09/21/2023 5:18:24 AM PDT · by MrRelevant · 37 replies
    NBC"news" ^ | 9/21 | By Phil Helsel
    A North Carolina woman is suing Google after her husband died after driving off a collapsed bridge while following GPS directions, according to a lawsuit filed this week. Philip Paxson died after driving off "an unmarked, unbarricaded collapsed bridge" on the night of Sept. 30, 2022, in Hickory, his widow, Alicia Paxson, said in the suit filed in Wake County on Tuesday. Paxson was not aware the bridge had collapsed and was following GPS directions from Google, which had not been updated, the lawsuit says.
  • How American Soldiers Invented the Global Positioning System (GPS) On Labor Day Weekend In 1973

    08/31/2023 8:30:00 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 14 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 08/31/2023 | G.W. Thielman
    It’s taken 400 years of scientific discoveries to make it possible for anyone to find his location anywhere on the globe using GPS.With the letters GPS, we instantly recognize an innovation that has revolutionized our lives. The concept was born half a century ago in a sweltering room at the Pentagon over Labor Day weekend in 1973.That’s the genesis of the concept for a constellation of platforms orbiting the Earth, transmitting radio signals to determine location. Many years of calculation, experiment, and miniaturization led to the Navigation Signal Timing and Ranging (NAVSTAR) satellites that became known as the Global Positioning...
  • 9K33 Osa SAM System Destroyed by HIMARS in Kherson -- About 50km From the Front

    08/25/2023 3:10:02 PM PDT · by Paul R. · 1 replies
    YouTube ^ | 8/25/2023 | Suchomimus
    A 9K33 Osa SAM System is hit by HIMARS about 50 kilometers from the frontlines in Kherson. (Very interesting discussion in comments.)
  • Police will be allowed to spy on suspects by remotely activating their phones' camera, microphone and GPS under new French laws dubbed a 'snoopers' charter'

    07/06/2023 4:00:31 AM PDT · by fruser1 · 37 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 7/6/2023 | David Averre
    French police should be able to spy on suspects by remotely activating the camera, microphone and GPS of their phones and other devices, lawmakers agreed late Wednesday. Part of a wider justice reform bill, the spying provision has been attacked by the left and rights defenders as an authoritarian snoopers' charter, though Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti insists it would affect only 'dozens of cases a year'.
  • Pythons are snacking on GPS-wearing opossums that give up their locations

    02/19/2023 5:18:15 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 72 replies
    Washington Post via MSN ^ | Feb 18, 2023 | Kyle Melnick
    After nearly five months of waiting, an alarm activated on Michael Cove’s radio, a sign his study was working. To hunt pythons, an invasive predator in the Florida Keys, Cove and fellow researchers have been strapping GPS collars to opossums and raccoons. When one was eaten by a python in September, researchers programmed the device to notify them from within the snake’s stomach.... According to a ScienceDaily study, the number of raccoons, opossums and bobcats in the Everglades all dropped by at least 87 percent between 1997 and 2012. The same study found that marsh and cottontail rabbits and foxes...
  • US military personnel at a European base provide GPS-targeting for Ukrainian rocket systems

    02/09/2023 10:09:00 PM PST · by McGruff · 88 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | February 9, 2023 | Isabelle Khurshudyan , Dan Lamothe , Shane Harris and Paul Sonne
    KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian officials said they require coordinates provided or confirmed by the United States and its allies for the vast majority of strikes using its advanced U.S.-provided rocket systems, a previously undisclosed practice that reveals a deeper and more operationally active role for the Pentagon in the war. The disclosure, confirmed by three senior Ukrainian officials and a senior U.S. official, comes after months of Kyiv’s forces pounding Russian targets — including headquarters, ammunition depots and barracks — on Ukrainian soil with the U.S.-provided High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, and other similar precision-guided weapons such as...
  • Google Maps Still Sending Drivers To Unmaintained Dirt Roads During Blizzards

    01/23/2023 7:23:03 PM PST · by george76 · 29 replies
    Cowboy State Daily ^ | January 23, 2023 | Jimmy Orr
    It was easy to make jokes last summer when reports surfaced that Google Maps and other navigation systems were wrongly directing people off of Interstate 80 and rerouting drivers through Colorado. Sure, it added eight hours to a trip, but it wasn’t necessarily dangerous. But seven months later, it’s still happening. And in the winter months, it could be deadly. The problem is these navigation apps continue to send the wrong information primarily on or around Interstate 80 in southcentral Wyoming. The Rock Springs area seems to be the hot spot. On one day last month, the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s...
  • There Once Was A Prez on Nantucket, and Each of His Cars, a Fire Struck It-Is the media ignoring an assassination attempt?

    12/02/2022 8:11:53 AM PST · by SJackson · 57 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | December 2, 2022 | Robert Spencer
    The news item here can be summed up in a limerick: There once was a prez on Nantucket, and he couldn’t get ‘round in a bucket. He rented some cars, and drove under the stars, until each one, a car fire struck it. Okay, so I ain’t Shakespeare. But this really happened. As Fox News reported more prosaically Tuesday, “President Biden’s rented Secret Service vehicles burst into flames in a parking lot Monday, just one day after he left his Nantucket vacation.” Yes, they really called him, whimsically enough, “President Biden,” not the more accurate “Alleged President Biden” or “Ostensible...
  • Biden’s Secret Service Rental Vehicles Burn In Flames 1 Day After His Nantucket Departure

    11/29/2022 10:53:32 AM PST · by Red Badger · 58 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | • Nov 29, 2022 | By Dillon Burroughs
    President Joe Biden’s Secret Service rental vehicles were part of a large fire just one day after he left from a Nantucket vacation. The Monday fire at the Nantucket Memorial Airport in Massachusetts included five vehicles rented from Hertz that were used to transport the president and his family. “A large car fire involving multiple rental vehicles at Nantucket Memorial Airport is now out. There were no injuries reported but at least four cars sustained significant damage,” the Nantucket Current tweeted in a series of posts alongside videos and pictures of the damage. “The fire was just 40 feet away...
  • Us Citizens Were Tracked Via Secret ‘Covid Decree Violation’ Scores

    10/26/2022 6:00:29 PM PDT · by bitt · 16 replies
    SUMMIYNEWS.COM ^ | 10/26/2022 | PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
    Data was used to help Democrats win elections. Tens of millions of US citizens were given a “COVID-19 decree violation” score as a result of a data harvesting program conducted during the first lockdown by voter analytics firm PredictWise. “These Covid-19 decree violation scores were calculated by analyzing nearly two billion global positioning system (GPS) pings to get “real-time, ultra-granular locations patterns.” People who were “on the go more often than their neighbors” were given a high Covid-19 decree violation score while those who mostly or always stayed at home were given a low Covid-19 decree violation score,” writes Reclaim...
  • North Carolina man dead after following GPS to destroyed bridge that dropped into water.

    10/08/2022 3:37:51 PM PDT · by george76 · 82 replies
    Fox News ^ | October 8, 2022 | Audrey Conklin
    The Hickory bridge had been inoperative for about nine years, and any barricades had been washed away ... A North Carolina man is dead after his GPS led him to a defunct bridge that dropped off into a creek on Sept. 30. Phillip Paxson, a 47-year-old father of two girls, had been driving his Jeep at night from his oldest daughter's birthday party in Hickory when his GPS led him to a bridge that has been inoperative since heavy flooding in July 2013 destroyed it. "It was a dark and rainy night and he was following his GPS which led...
  • OOPS! Google Maps Is Wrongly Telling People I-80 Is Closed; Reroutes People To Colorado .( again, not the first time ) . ( from Wyoming )

    06/30/2022 6:41:04 PM PDT · by george76 · 27 replies
    Cowboy State Daily ^ | June 30, 2022June 30, 2022 | Ellen Fike,
    It’s a fan favorite scene from “The Office,” where the star of the TV show relies a little too much on GPS and ends up in a lake. The same thing is happening here in Wyoming, but without the lake. Faulty GPS directions are directing travelers in southern Wyoming to Colorado. The Wyoming Department of Transportation is warning that Google Maps is wrongly telling people that Interstate 80 near Rock Springs is closed and then rerouting the travelers to Colorado, which would add add many hours on to their drive time. WYDOT spokesman Doug McGee attributed the faulty information to...
  • Tales From the Swamp: How a Republican Senator’s Son Partnered With a Liberal Dark Money Group To Sink Voter ID Expansion. ( Roy Blunt )

    05/18/2022 6:07:28 AM PDT · by george76 · 12 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | May 18, 2022 | Collin Anderson •
    A George Soros-linked dark money behemoth has a peculiar partner in its bid to sink voter ID expansion in Michigan—a group of Republican operatives led by a sitting Republican senator's son. Over the past year, liberal dark money group Sixteen Thirty Fund has spent $2.5 million opposing a Republican-led petition drive to expand Michigan's voter ID requirements. Nearly $400,000 of that money has gone to Groundgame Political Solutions, a shadowy consulting firm that a trio of Republican operatives—including Sen. Roy Blunt's (R., Mo.) son, Andy Blunt—privately launched in May 2021, corporate filings show. The firm, which Blunt first registered in...
  • Is Putin trying to knock out West's GPS network? EU aviation authorities claim satellites are under constant 'jamming' or 'spoofing' attacks disrupting navigation from Finland to the Mediterranean

    03/20/2022 5:57:04 AM PDT · by DFG · 38 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 03/19/2022 | Darren Boyle
    Russia has been accused of interfering with the global GPS navigation system during a major Nordic war game in Finland. European aviation authorities have said signals, heavily used by commercial aircraft, have been affected from Finland, through the Mediterranean and even as far as Iraq. Disruptions to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), which include GPS, are caused by the 'jamming' or 'spoofing' of satellite signals. Since the war erupted on February 24, 'jamming and/or possible spoofing has intensified in geographical areas surrounding the conflict zone and other areas,' the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said in an online bulletin Thursday.
  • EASA Warns That The Ukraine Conflict Could Impact GPS In Europe

    03/18/2022 10:37:24 AM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 9 replies
    https://simpleflying.com ^ | 3/16/2022 | BY LUKE PETERS
    The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has just published a Safety Information Bulletin warning of the increase in the probability of issues regarding the use of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) or Global Positioning Systems (GPS). The notice goes out due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine following its invasion by Russian forces. Preserving a safe environment for flight operations The Safety Information Bulletin (SIB) issued by EASA, the body responsible for aviation safety oversight across the European Union, is aimed at the national aviation authorities of member states and air navigation service providers (ANSPs) as well as airlines....
  • European air safety group warns unidentified source is disrupting GPS systems near Russia and Ukraine

    03/18/2022 4:44:54 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRoosterNew · 22 replies
    yahoo!life ^ | March 18, 2022 | Jake Epstein,Taylor Rains
    European air safety group warns unidentified source is disrupting GPS systems near Russia and Ukraine Jake Epstein,Taylor Rains Fri, March 18, 2022, 4:10 AM·2 min read The European Union Aviation Safety Agency said GPS systems near Russia and Ukraine are being impacted by an unidentified source. Disruptions have occurred in places around the Black Sea, eastern Finland, and the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. The warning comes as sanctions block parts, maintenance, and support to Russian airlines. A European aviation safety regulator on Thursday issued a warning that an unidentified source is disrupting GPS systems near Russia and Ukraine....
  • Dogs align themselves with Earth’s magnetic field when it comes time to poop

    01/02/2014 3:00:23 PM PST · by Perdogg · 155 replies
    Dogs have been found to be sensitive to Earth's magnetic field, and apparently align themselves along the magnetic north-south axis before they defecate. Czech and German researchers studied 70 dogs during 1,893 defecations and 5,582 urinations over the course of two years, and found that when the Earth's magnetic field was stable the dogs chose to align themselves with it. When it was unstable, such as during a solar flare, the dogs would become confused.