Nvidia cooks up chip-tracking tech
Published in Graphics


GPU giant moves to stop its kit wandering into banned markets

Nvidia has cooked up location-verification software that can reveal which country its chips are running in as it scrambles to stop its AI hardware from being smuggled into places where Washington has slapped export bans.

British Time Lords fight GPS jammers
Published in News


Reversing the polarity on the neutron flow.

Britain's top boffins—nicknamed the "Time Lords"—are racing against the clock to save the country from a £1.4 billion-a-day threat.

Garmin smartwatches borked
Published in IoT


Timeless boot screen

Garmin smartwatch users are complaining that their watches are stuck in a never-ending boot screen featuring a so-called “blue triangle of death.”

Lost, internet down, blame the Sun
Published in Network


Holy sun Batman

If your Internet and phone service is pants today it might have something to do with a triangular-shaped dark gap in the sun's surface that's 20 times larger than Earth.

Russian fighter pilots bring their own GPS devices
Published in Transportation


Inbuilt navigation systems are so bad

Russian fighter pilots are so fed up with the GPS devices that come with their super expensive jets that there are bringing their own to work and sticking them to the plane dashboards.

Russians jamming GPS
Published in Network


In Tsar Putin’s Ukraine you will use GLONASS to target Tsar Putin

Jammers from Russian forces besieging the country are targeting global positioning system (GPS) satellite signals that are used for navigation, mapping, and other purposes.

Paedophiles can hack kids GPS enabled smartwatches
Published in IoT


Parent paranoia might be a self-fulling prophecy

Parents who think it is a wizard wheeze to tag their children with GPS-enabled smartwatches might be turning over their kids’ location to paedophiles.

Avast finds 600,000 GPS trackers with basic password
Published in News


123456

Security researchers from Czech cyber-security outfit Avast have found more than 600,000 GPS trackers manufactured by a Chinese company using the same default password of 123456.

Old GPS devices face mini Y2K bug
Published in Mobiles

Small numbers might go down

Older GPS gear might suffer from a mini Y2K programming bug from April 6.

Russians jammed US GPS
Published in News
15 November 2018

Russians jammed US GPS


Military exercise embarrassment

Russian spooks showed how they could shut down the entire US war machine by jamming GPS during a major NATO military exercise in Norway leaving them with the equivalent of Apple Maps.