Start Up No.2692: the extent of GPS jamming, how billionaires hijacked US broadband, AI stock selloff hits US market, and more

As cars in the US have become taller, pedestrian deaths have risen after years during which they fell. (And why can you call a car but not a football team after a native American tribe?) CC-licensed photo by Kay Gaensler on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam. A selection of 9 links for you. Bumpy ride. I’m @charlesarthur on Twitter. On Threads: charles_arthur. On Mastodon: https://newsie.social/@charlesarthur. On Bluesky: @charlesarthur.bsky.social. Observations and links welcome. ‘It’s quite a bit more than we expected’: satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering • Space Tereza Pultarova: » An experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space for the first time. The data surprised the team behind the project and indicated that satellites orbiting far from Earth aren’t the only ones that experience degradation of their positioning,…