GPS

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 | 77

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

Satnav launches are like buses: none for ages then three arrive at once

Two Galileo launches tonight, new GPS bird went up on Wednesday

Science27 Mar 2015 | 19