Telecoms networks could provide next-gen GPS services without the need for satellites
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Starlink decoded for use as GPS alternative – without Elon Musk's help
Told no by SpaceX, uni eggheads went ahead by themselves
Science24 Oct 2022 | 31
Time to party like it's 2002: Acura and Honda car clocks knocked back 20 years by bug
Honda probes issue, has yet to identify the cause of the problem
Software06 Jan 2022 | 114
Galileo satnav system gets two new somewhat confusing satellites
Despite being the 27th and 28th launched, they're the first of a dozen first-gen birds
Science06 Dec 2021 | 39
Phone jammers made my model plane smash into parked lorry, fumes hobbyist
Illegal irritant raises its head again after drone investigation
Edge + IoT15 Nov 2021 | 92
If your apps or gadgets break down on Sunday, this may be why: Gpsd bug to roll back clocks to 2002
Alternative headline: Yet another widely used project maintained thanklessly by 'some random person in Nebraska'
Software19 Oct 2021 | 61
Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship
Boatnotes II Meaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response
Networks22 Sep 2021 | 91
Russia spoofed AIS data to fake British warship's course days before Crimea guns showdown
Great powers clash while the rest of us sigh and tut at data feed meddling
Networks24 Jun 2021 | 158
GPS jamming around Cyprus gives our air traffic controllers a headache, says Eurocontrol
One-fifth of all flights in a 3 hour period were affected
Networks05 Mar 2021 | 71
India seeks chipset manufacturers to make its local GPS alternative fly further into the market
The satellites are up there, Qualcomm has silicon on the ground, government wants more
Legal01 Dec 2020 | 7
NSA warns that mobile device location services constantly compromise snoops and soldiers
It might be best not to ask how the NSA knows this and why it advises most mitigations don’t help
Security05 Aug 2020 | 88
Wired: China's Beidou satnav system, 35th bird in orbit. Tired: America's GPS. Expired: Britain's dreams of its own
Middle Kingdom completes its third-generation positioning system
Science23 Jun 2020 | 25
China praises Pakistan SatNav collaboration
Latest sat launch was postponed but China's GPS alternative network is nearly finished
Science23 Jun 2020 | 5
AT&T tracked its own sales bods using GPS, secretly charged them $135 a month to do so, lawsuit claims
See, it's not just users getting shafted
Security19 May 2020 | 22
Australian state adds AI number plate readers to GPS tracking of corona-quarantine busters
Western Australia is enforcing internal borders now
AI + ML09 Apr 2020 | 12
Register Lecture: Can portable atomic clocks end UK dependence on GNSS?
New decade, independent geo-time keeping
Lectures03 Dec 2019 | 138
Stalking cheap Chinese GPS child trackers is as easy as 123... 456 – because that's the default password on 600k+ of these gizmos
It's 2019 and, like, duh, insecurity comes as standard
Edge + IoT05 Sep 2019 | 32
Are US border cops secretly secreting GPS trackers on vehicles without a warrant? EFF lawyers want to know
Uncle Sam sued by rights warriors probing claims of silent snooping on suspicious rides
Security28 Aug 2019 | 43
Experts: No need to worry about Europe's navigation sats going dark for days. Also: What the hell is going on with those satellites?!
Galileo, Galileo... time to stop doing the fandango and get on with the global positioning
Science17 Jul 2019 | 92
Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, where to go? Navigation satellite signals flip from degraded to full TITSUP* over span of four days
*Timing Is Terrible Say Users Plaintively
Science15 Jul 2019 | 144
Mystery GPS glitch grounds flights, leaves passengers in the bar
The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system is not happy. Not happy at all
Networks11 Jun 2019 | 57
Panic as panic alarms meant to keep granny and little Timmy safe prove a privacy fiasco
Simple hack turns them into super secret spying tool
Security11 May 2019 | 52
How do you sing 'We're jamming and we hope you like jamming, too' in Russian? Kremlin's sat-nav spoofing revealed
You satmad, bro?
Security02 Apr 2019 | 96
Fun fact: GPS uses 10 bits to store the week. That means it runs out... oh heck – April 6, 2019
Nav gadgets will be Gah, Properly Screwed if you don't or can't update firmware
On-Prem12 Feb 2019 | 302
Year after being blasted for dodgy security, GPS kid tracker biz takes heat again for leaving families' private info lying around for crims
If you're going to lo-jack your offspring, at least be secure
Security01 Feb 2019 | 14
Up to three million kids' GPS watches can be tracked by parents... and any miscreant: Flaws spill pick-and-choose catalog for perverts
Gadgets can be hacked to spy on, find youngsters – claim
Security15 Nov 2018 | 37
5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1... Runty-birds are go: 12,000+ internet-beaming mini-satellites OK'd by USA
FCC signs off on broadband-in-space plans, plus connections to Europe's GPS
Networks15 Nov 2018 | 45
Sad Nav: How a cheap GPS spoofer gizmo can tell drivers to get lost
Eggheads reveal designs for causing navigation mischief for folks unsure of surroundings
Security16 Jul 2018 | 95
What a flap: SIM swiped from slain stork's GPS tracker used to rack up $2,700 phone bill
Bio-boffins' feathers ruffled after miscreants flip 'em the bird, costing charity a lotta złoty
Bootnotes03 Jul 2018 | 54
I see a satellite of a man ... Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, that's now 4 sats fit to go
But I'm just a poor Brit, and nobody loves me
Science05 Jun 2018 | 106
India completes its GPS alternative, for the second time
One bird broke, replacement failed to launch, but now IRNSS is whole again
Legal13 Apr 2018 | 28
Boffins crack smartphone location tracking – even if you've turned off the GPS
Permission? Who needs it?
Security07 Feb 2018 | 104
Forget cyber crims, it's time to start worrying about GPS jammers – UK.gov report
Critical infrastructure and emergency services need a satellite back-up
Security31 Jan 2018 | 120
NASA is pretty pleased with its pulsar-sniffing intergalactic GPS tech
Pics X-ray satnav demo'd for future spacecraft
Science12 Jan 2018 | 21
Foil snack food bags make a decent Faraday cage, judge finds
Chap kept his work PDA in one, slacked off, played golf, lost job, appealed, failed to get job back
Bootnotes01 Dec 2017 | 71
Leaky-by-design location services show outsourced security won't ever work
Google and Facebook can't – or won't – anticipate misuses of data that shouldn't exist
Security10 Oct 2017 | 88
Smartphone SatNavs to get centimetre-perfect GNSS receivers in 2018
Broadcom sampling chipset that should let navigation apps tell you which lane to drive in
Personal Tech27 Sep 2017 | 53
GPS III satellites and ground station projects get even later as costs gently spiral
What's a few more billion between friends, eh?
Science31 Jul 2017 | 25
Banking app startups go TITSUP as payment slurper keels over. Again
Total Inability To Support Users' Purchases – and the second time in four months
Software06 Jul 2017 | 11
Report estimates cost of disruption to GPS in UK would be £1bn per day
Err, maybe it's time for backup?
On-Prem19 Jun 2017 | 136
SpaceX yoinks $96m GPS launch deal from under ULA's nose
Old monopoly crumbles as competition is introduced
Science15 Mar 2017 | 53
US government agency pops 16 years of solar weather data online
Data from GPS systems helps to predict how satellites and radios fare when the sun flares
Legal06 Feb 2017 | 10
Galileo! Galileo! Galileo! Galileo! Galileo fit to go: Europe's GPS-like network switches on
More accurate than American system and open to all
Science15 Dec 2016 | 78
Android, Qualcomm move on insecure GPS almanac downloads
HTTPS? They've heard of it
Security07 Dec 2016 | 6
Location boffins demo satellite-free navigation
No birds? No worries: LTE, Wi-Fi help keep things on track
Software16 Oct 2016 | 30
Google GPS grab felt like a feature, was actually a bug
Play Store 'error state' just kept trying to find you even though GPS was out of reach
Security15 Sep 2016 | 74
Google's become an obsessive stalker and you can't get a restraining order
Comment Location, location, location (data)
Software14 Sep 2016 | 159
Australian maps and GPS will align by 2020
The Earth moved for all of us but spatial wonks got out of bed and did something about it
Legal27 Jul 2016 | 8
US military tests massive GPS jamming weapon over California
Aircraft warned to stay out of area
Networks07 Jun 2016 | 56
'GPS 2.0' outline calls for open, hackable, interfaces
If Google and Apple are going to provide location services, why not mash 'em up?
Software18 Apr 2016 | 6
Ben Nevis embiggened by a metre
Now a tad taller, thanks to GPS
Science18 Mar 2016 | 46
What a pair of ace-holes: Crooks bug gambler's car with GPS tracker, follow him and rob him
On the bright side, there's a twist
Bootnotes08 Mar 2016 | 29
Lights out for Space Vehicle Number 23: UK smacked when US sat threw GPS out of whack
Decommissioning of elderly satellite gave UK biz that syncing feeling
Science03 Feb 2016 | 82
GPS, you've gone too far this time
Built-in bias means your walk tracker over-estimates distances
Software16 Nov 2015 | 75
Cops gain access to phone location data
Supreme Court rejects robber appeal and adds to already confusing situation
Security10 Nov 2015 | 21
Top telematics: Black box helps driver swerve speeding fine
GPS data sends from Northumbria Police
On-Prem07 Oct 2015 | 64
Arizona lads recover epic stratovid – two years after launch
AT&T worker stumbles upon balloon payload lost in space the desert
Science14 Sep 2015 | 25
Digital doping might make you a Tour de Virtual cycling champion
Reg rider takes three GPS devices for the same spin, with unusual results
Personal Tech15 Aug 2015 | 38
Apple GOBBLE: GPS startup Coherent may make Maps somewhat more so
Execs go to Cupertino, possibly using an atlas to get there
Software18 May 2015 |
'Just follow the damn Constitution!' FBI, DoJ skewered over demands for crypto backdoors
Vid Politicos: Encryption gives peeps what they want
Security01 May 2015 | 27
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