It used to be that only local weather conditions impacted planting. Now a solar storm stops everything.

https://www.404media.co/solar-storm-knocks-out-tractor-gps-systems-during-peak-planting-season/

Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season

The solar storm that brought the aurora borealis to large parts of the United States this weekend also broke critical GPS and precision farming functionality in tractors and agricultural equipment during a critical point of the planting season, 404 Media has learned. These outages caused many farmers to fully stop their planting operations for the moment.

One chain of John Deere dealerships warned farmers that the accuracy of some of the systems used by tractors are “extremely compromised,” and that farmers who planted crops during periods of inaccuracy are going to face problems when they go to harvest, according to text messages obtained by 404 Media and an update posted by the dealership. The outages highlight how vulnerable modern tractors are to satellite disruptions, which experts have been warning about for years.

(Related) Could an enemy impact our agriculture?

https://www.ft.com/content/be9393db-cd63-4141-a4c8-c16b4fe1b6b0

How GPS warfare is playing havoc with civilian life

… So-called GPS jamming and spoofing have largely been the preserve of militaries over the past two decades, used to defend sensitive sites against drone or missile attacks or mask their own activities.

But systematic interference by armed forces — particularly following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s offensive against Hamas in Gaza — has caused widespread issues for civilian populations as well. The footprint of corrupted signals has become vast.

Is the need to “control” moving us away from “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”

https://fpf.org/blog/now-on-the-internet-will-everyone-know-if-youre-a-child/

NOW, ON THE INTERNET, WILL EVERYONE KNOW IF YOU’RE A CHILD?

As minors increasingly spend time online, lawmakers continue to introduce legislation to enhance the privacy and safety of kids’ and teens’ online experiences beyond the existing Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) framework. Proposals have proliferated in both the federal and state legislatures across the U.S. with varying approaches to minors’ privacy protections. Key pieces of this discussion are the age of individuals online, whether online sites and services know that an individual is a child, and how to balance kids’ and teens’ protections with anonymity online.