James L

Reflections and views of things in our world.
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A Russian satellite has been jamming GPS across Europe since 2019.

Cosmos 2546. Continental reach. Weekday business hours. Deliberate.

Targets GPS, Galileo, BeiDou. Not GLONASS.

Terrestrial RF is unaffected. That is the architecture that matters.

https://t.co/bkoZyJrj5c

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Ukraine returns Russian drones to Russia.

Russia redirects Ukrainian drones into NATO.

Next step: a cheap SDR in a backpack, anywhere in Europe.

Every GPS-guided weapon in range turns back toward whoever launched it.

This capability already exists.

#GNSS #ElectronicWarfare

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56% of CEOs have seen zero revenue or cost benefit from AI.
PwC. 4,454 CEOs. 2026.

The tool was not the problem. The question they asked before deploying it was.

#AI #Transformation

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Russia is spoofing Ukrainian drones into NATO airspace.

A drone shut Vilnius airport on 20 May. GPS jamming from Kaliningrad redirected it into Lithuanian territory.

The signal does not recognise borders.

C4ISRNET, 29 May 2026

#GNSS #ElectronicWarfare

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Volkswagen had the data. They did not have the process to act on it.

The defects accumulated from 2020. Nobody escalated until 2023.

Not missing data. Missing process.

AI makes it harder to claim you did not know.

#AI #Transformation #Turnaround

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Same signal. 1,100 vessels. Ambulance crew.

Same physics and architecture failure.

No version of this gets better by adding more satellites to a system 10 billion times weaker than a 5-watt transmitter.

#GNSS #NavigationSecurity #SovereignCapability

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The retailer was holding too much of the wrong stock. Every season.

The buying team was experienced. The question was wrong.

AI did not change the forecast. It changed the question.

That is where the value came from.

#AI #Transformation #Turnaround

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GPS + Galileo + GLONASS + BeiDou. 4 constellations.

A 5-watt jammer defeats all of them simultaneously.

All 4 arrive at -160 dBW. The jammer is 100 dB stronger.

More satellites. Same vulnerability.

#GNSS #NavigationSecurity #SignalProcessing

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The EU Commission President's aircraft was jammed over Bulgaria.

Same signal. Same installations. Still operating.

What changed after the incident: nothing.

Awareness is not action.

#GNSS #NavigationSecurity #SovereignCapability

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VW spent EUR 2 billion on software. The cars still could not park.

20M lines of code. 1,500 critical defects. 2 years of delays.

Cariad failed in 2020. Nobody saw it until 2023.

Not a tech failure. A governance failure.

#AI #Manufacturing #Turnaround

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Maritime insurers are now pricing GNSS risk into premiums.

Lloyd's added interference clauses to hull and cargo policies in Q4 2025.

EASA issued a 3rd revision of the same bulletin.
Lloyd's changed the pricing.

#GNSS #MaritimeSafety #NavigationSecurity

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Most companies deployed AI to answer the old question faster.

The ones winning asked a new question entirely: if we could know anything in real time, what would we do differently?

That question changes everything.

#AI #Transformation

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Baltic. Black Sea. Hormuz. 3 theatres simultaneously.

733 GNSS incidents in the Baltic in 2025. 1,100 vessels in the Gulf in 1 day.

The physics to fix this exists. Has existed for years.

It is a political will question.

#GNSS #NavigationSecurity #SovereignCapability

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A bank was losing money to fraud it could not see.
Not sophistication. Volume.

1,000 transactions per second. Reviewers
couldn't keep up.

The fraud was always in the data.

Close the gap between signal and action.
That is the only fix.

#AI #Transformation #Turnaround

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4 signals. 3 hyperboloids. 1 position.

TDOA positioning requires no satellite, no active transmission. The receiver is passive and cannot be jammed at source.

More signals = more accuracy. More signals = higher cost to spoof.

#GNSS #NavigationSecurity #SignalProcessing

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What happens when a NATO asset acts on a false position.

No alarm. No warning. The fix looks confident. The decision is made. The outcome is wrong.

1,100 vessels and 150 aircraft on false position data. 1 day. March 2026.

#GNSS #NavigationSecurity #ElectronicWarfare

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GPS signal loss events increased 220% between 2021 and 2024.

EASA issued 3 revisions of the same bulletin. OPSGROUP recorded 1,500 affected flights per day at peak in 2024.

The threat tempo is faster than the process.

#GNSS #NavigationSecurity #SovereignCapability

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@Apple @AppleSupport @AppleDeveloper
Paying $99/year for this:
- 3 months to fix my own developer account. Alone.
- App vanished from App Store Connect. No explanation.
- Support agent asked the same question 3 times.
- Contact form broken. Emails unanswered.
CaseID: 102841743378

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@LinkedInHelp message sent

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📢 @AndrzejDuda @donaldtuskEPP Why is Poland and Europe not securing a fair share of Ukraine’s raw materials? 🇺🇦💰 With the US taking 50% of $12T, Europe should demand at least 25%. We support Ukraine—why aren’t we ensuring economic security for our industries? #Ukraine #Poland