July 2026: A series of aircraft near-misses due to GPS jamming near the U.S. Army-operated White Sands Missile Range may have culminated in the fatal May 2026 crash of a civilian medevac plane and subsequent month-long wildfire. The U.S. National Transportation Board (NTSB) has issued a preliminary report investigating the role White Sands may have […]
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July 2026: In June 2017, Russian civilians and military personnel alike became casualties of a mysterious, meandering cloud of GPS spoofing. It was later revealed that this spoofing came from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s security detail for protection from drone strikes. The RNL’s Dr. Todd Humphreys, who built the first civilian-operated GPS spoofer, had predicted
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July 2026: On the Ukranian battlefront, Russian military trucks have taken on a striped camouflage to trick AI models into not recognizing them. This “dazzle camouflage,” once used during WWI to break up naval ship silhouettes against the horizon, is now being used to fool machine vision models. “Because zebra-striped trucks are unlikely to appear
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June 2026: GPS has become seamlessly enmeshed into almost all areas of everyday life. “We’re almost blindly reliant on it,” the RNL’s Dr. Humphreys said. “It’s built deeply into our systems and infrastructure. Some call it ‘the invisible utility.’” In 2007, spoofing GPS was considered too difficult for the layman to do. Renowned GPS expert
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June 2026: A recent paper from the RNL found Russian satellites responsible for seconds-long GPS outages across Europe since 2019. Corroborated by research at Spanish company GMV and confirmed by U.S. Air Force officials, the RNL’s Dr. Todd Humphreys and RNL alumnus Dr. Zach Clements held the Russian EKS constellation responsible. Though these fleeting bursts
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June 2026: Veritasium interviewed the RNL’s Dr. Todd Humphreys about his and RNL alumnus Dr. Zach Clements’ recent work tracking GNSS interference, exploring the journey and techniques behind identifying the powerful source of transient interference affecting continental Europe, Greenland, and Canada since 2019.
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June 2026: As Ukraine ramped up an AI-assisted drone campaign to strike Russian logistics equipment, the Russian military opted for a unique form of camouflage. Russian military vehicles have been seen coated with vivid stripes in efforts to baffle computer vision models. Experts confirm that such Zebra patterns are capable of throwing optical hunting systems
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May 2026: Dr. Zach Clements (GNSS Interference Detection and Geolocation) and Dr. Tucker Haydon (Trusted Inertial Terrain-Aided Navigation (TITAN)) have successfully defended their PhD dissertations. The RNL gathered at Dr. Humphreys’ home to celebrate. Congratulations to Zach and Tucker! Dr. Zach Clements (Right) with Dr. Todd Humphreys (Left) Dr. Tucker Haydon
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May 2026: Weeks before the SpaceX IPO, Starlink has shut down a GPS alternative that most customers never knew about. Other customers found access to built-in location features hidden away in a Debug menu to get coarse position estimates — a feature of immense value to those in regions with rising GNSS interference. Starlink is
April 2026: Starlink users will soon be unable to access their location on their communications terminals, leaving many confused and upset. The gRPC API on Starlink terminals lends users an opportunity to pull the coarse location generated by the terminal, even in the presence of spoofing and jamming. “Starlink PNT, as it’s called, has a
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