Far above your head, constellations of satellites are working constantly to provide the positioning, navigation, and timing systems that quietly run modern life. Known as the global navigation satellite system, or GNSS, signals from these satellites provide the foundation for mobile networks, energy grids, the internet, and GPS. And increasingly, their dependability is under threat. GPS signals can be jammed--deliberately drowned out with other powerful radio signals--and spoofed, where erroneous signals are released to fool positioning systems. GPS interference has been documented in Ukraine, the Middle East, and the South China Sea.

UPenn Wharton School Associate Professor Ethan Mollick weighs in on the Biden White House's new guidelines for artificial intelligence in the workplace on'Fox News Live.' DRIVERLESS TAXIS ARRIVE: The future of urban transportation is here, and it's taking the form of sleek, autonomous vehicles traveling through city streets. Across the United States, self-driving car companies are racing to revolutionize how we move, promising safer roads, reduced traffic and a new era of mobility. But it's in San Francisco that this future is suddenly now a reality for thousands. 'SHADOWY ECOSYSTEM': The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday announced that it launched a probe of eight companies that offer "surveillance pricing" tools that use artificial intelligence and other technology to analyze consumer data to help set price targets for products and services. AI IN THE SKY: The U.S. Air Force has just unveiled a new aircraft that's turning heads and raising eyebrows across the globe.

When Palmer Luckey cofounded the defense startup Anduril in 2017, three years after selling his virtual reality startup Oculus to Facebook, the idea of a twentysomething from the tech industry challenging the giant contractors that build fighter jets, tanks, and warships for the US military seemed somewhat far-fetched. Seven years on, Luckey is showing that Anduril can not only compete with those contractors--it can win. Last month, Anduril was one of two companies, along with the established defense contractor General Atomics, chosen to prototype a new kind of autonomous fighter jet called the Collaborative Combat Aircraft, or CCA, for the US Air Force and Navy. Anduril was chosen ahead of a pack of what Beltway lingo dubs "defense primes"--Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrup Grummond. "Anduril is proving that with the right team and business model, a seven-year-old company can go toe-to-toe with players that have been around for 70," Luckey wrote on social media platform X shortly after the contract was announced.

U.S. Air Forces Central released new video appearing to show Russian fighter jets harassing American drones over Syria on July 5. Information about where the incidents took place were not provided. The United States military released new aerial footage on Wednesday that showed Russian fighter jets flying dangerously close to several U.S. drones over Syria. U.S. Air Forces Central said the video of the incident shows Russian SU-35 fighters moving into the drone's flight path and setting off so-called parachute flares and forcing the MQ-9 Reapers to take evasive maneuvers. Lt. Gen. Alex Grynkewich, commander of 9th Air Force in the Middle East, said three of the U.S. drones were operating over Syria, conducting a mission on the Islamic State terror group, when the Russian aircraft "began harassing the drones" after 10:30 a.m. "Russian military aircraft engaged in unsafe and unprofessional behavior while interacting with U.S. aircraft in Syria," he said, describing the actions as threatening to the safety of the U.S. and Russian forces.

Did you hear about the Air Force AI drone that went rogue and attacked its operators inside a simulation? The cautionary tale was told by Colonel Tucker Hamilton, chief of AI test and operations at the US Air Force, during a speech at an aerospace and defense event in London late last month. It apparently involved taking the kind of learning algorithm that has been used to train computers to play video games and board games like Chess and Go and using it to train a drone to hunt and destroy surface-to-air missiles. "At times, the human operator would tell it not to kill that threat, but it got its points by killing that threat," Hamilton was widely reported as telling the audience in London. It sounds like just the sort of thing AI experts have begun warning that increasingly clever and maverick algorithms might do.

Code hidden inside PC motherboards left millions of machines vulnerable to malicious updates, researchers revealed this week. Staff at security firm Eclypsium found code within hundreds of models of motherboards created by Taiwanese manufacturer Gigabyte that allowed an updater program to download and run another piece of software. While the system was intended to keep the motherboard updated, the researchers found that the mechanism was implemented insecurely, potentially allowing attackers to hijack the backdoor and install malware. Elsewhere, Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky revealed that its staff had been targeted by newly discovered zero-click malware impacting iPhones. Victims were sent a malicious message, including an attachment, on Apple's iMessage. The attack automatically started exploiting multiple vulnerabilities to give the attackers access to devices, before the message deleted itself.

On the morning of December 1, 2022, a modified F-16 fighter jet codenamed VISTA X-62A took off from Edwards Air Force Base, roughly 60 miles north of Los Angeles. Over the course of a short test flight, the VISTA engaged in advanced fighter maneuver drills, including simulated aerial dogfights, before landing successfully back at base. While this may sound like business as usual for the US's premier pilot training school--or like scenes lifted straight from Top Gun: Maverick--it was not a fighter pilot at the controls but, for the first time on a tactical aircraft, a sophisticated AI. Overseen by the US Department of Defense, VISTA X-62A undertook 12 AI-led test flights between December 1 and 16, totaling more than 17 hours of autonomous flight time. The breakthrough comes as part of a drive by the United States Air Force Vanguard to develop unmanned combat aerial vehicles.

The US Air Force can now equip autonomous drones with face recognition technology, raising fears that they could be used to find and kill specified people. The drones will be employed by special operations forces for intelligence gathering and for missions in foreign countries, according to a contract between the Department of Defense (DoD) and Seattle-based firm RealNetworks. The company's software, based on machine learning, is designed to work on a drone that is piloting itself, with limited or …

Bluescape announced that it has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authorization on Amazon Web Services (AWS) at the Moderate Impact Level through sponsorship of the US Air Force. Agencies from across the public, industry, and academic sectors, can now confidently leverage Bluescape's virtual workspaces to improve their agility, coordination, and outcomes regardless of their mission. "The government is increasingly demanding access to secure visual tools to support employees and distributed teams who now need to collaborate virtually on everything from simple whiteboarding and brainstorming sessions, to more complex incidence response programs and training AI/ML models," said John Greenstein, GM, Global Public Sector at Bluescape. "We are grateful to everyone at the GSA and DoD, especially the US Air Force, not only for sponsoring us at Impact Level 4 to meet their own needs, but also going the extra step to help us achieve FedRAMP Moderate, which brings this new capability to Civilian Agencies, too." With FedRAMP authorization status, Bluescape is now certified by the federal government to satisfy cloud security requirements and help accelerate federal agencies' digital transformation.

An MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone flies in tests for the Royal Australian Air Force. WASHINGTON -- The US Air Force is set to begin flight experiments with Boeing's MQ-28 Ghost Bat, a combat drone developed for the Australian air force that may help its American counterpart learn how to operate unmanned aircraft alongside fighter jets. Lt. Gen. Clint Hinote, who leads Air Force Futures, told Breaking Defense in a September 20 interview that the service is "getting ready to take delivery" of a drone prototype through the Pentagon's research and engineering office, also known as OSD (R&E). "It might look a lot like an Australian thing," he joked, referring to the Ghost Bat, which first flew in 2021 at Royal Australian Air Force Base Woomera. Pentagon spokesman Lt. Cdr. Tim Gorman confirmed that the research and engineering office is involved in development and experimentation efforts involving Ghost Bat, saying that "OSD (R&E) continually works with the services to validate technologies that are key to advancing and fielding next generation capabilities."