As the 184-metre-long tanker was docking in Novorossiysk, Le Meur was on the ship’s bridge overseeing the final approach. Suddenly, the ship’s warning signals started blaring. “As soon as the GPS lost the signal, we had tons of alarms,” he says. “You cannot miss it. Pretty much everything on the bridge started raising alarms.”

Instead of displaying Atria’s actual position, the ship’s systems located it 25 to 30 miles away – at Gelendzhik airport. GPS disruptions aren’t uncommon, Le Meur says, but most of the time when problems happen they’re limited to a few hundred metres.

“In my entire career, it’s my first time I have experienced such a big discrepancy.” To be sure of the failure during the incident in June, the crew restarted both the main GPS and the backup unit, only to find both systems still gave the same incorrect positioning data.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/black-sea-ship-hacking-russia

It may not be the most surprising revelation, given profits are sinking faster than a boat without a hulland big-name partners are jumping ship left and right, but the founder of Microsoft has presumably left Windows Mobile for the greener pastures of Google’s Android.

https://www.neowin.net/news/bill-gates-has-made-the-move-to-android-has-no-love-for-an-iphone

https://www.siammandalay.com/products/serpent-cube

The “notch” on the new iPhone X is not just strange, interesting, or even odd — it is bad. It is bad design, and as a result, bad for the user experience. The justification for the notch (the new Face ID tech, which lets you unlock the device just by looking at it) could have easily been accomplished with no visual break in the display. Yet here is this awkward blind spot cradled by two blobs of actual screenspace.

https://theoutline.com/post/2352/apple-is-really-bad-at-design

What isn’t Telegram saying about its connections to the Kremlin?

The supposedly secure messaging app has employees in St. Petersburg, multiple sources say, in the same building as Kremlin-influenced social network VK.

https://theoutline.com/post/2348/what-isn-t-telegram-saying-about-its-connections-to-the-kremlin

A new project is aiming to bring bees online by putting them in tiny “backpacks” so that scientists can track the threatened insect’s behaviour and help its survival.

Bees in Manchester initially will be connected to the internet using technology from Cisco to help researchers track their migration, pollination and movement, and eventually, across the UK.

http://www.cityam.com/272476/moo-ve-over-connected-cows-internet-bees

Here’s a new mini-crisis for Uber’s new CEO: Transport for London, the taxi regulating service in London, announced today that it would not be renewing Uber’s license to operate because of concerns over the company’s “lack of corporate responsibility” in relation to public safety issues.

https://www.recode.net/2017/9/22/16349352/uber-london-ban-tfl-threat-driving-appeal

Login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking have leaked online, potentially exposing the personal data and vehicle details of drivers and businesses using its service.

http://thehackernews.com/2017/09/hacker-track-car.html?m=1