Skill Zone News issue 123
As diplomatic relations with Russia threaten to return to 1980s temperatures, sysadmins the world over must be looking at their traffic logs and contemplating that if spammers, hackers, and scammers can already seemingly operate with impunity from the Russian IP space, what hope is there for reigning them in when relations between east and west become positively icy.
28th March 2018
What direction now for autonomous cars?
The recent road traffic accident in Arizona, in which a cyclist was fatally injured by a self-driving car undergoing road tests is a personal tragedy for the family involved, but also calls into question issues about the way these vehicles are being tested in public.
Building on 3D printing
Three dimensional printing might not be the home-user hit that the pundits were predicting, but it is proving to be an important technology in ways few anticipated.
Near miss for a glider
We've had plenty of drone near misses with jet airliners around the UK's airports, but the Airprox Board has this month reported a frightening near miss between drone and glider at Dunstable.