Tech Updates w/ Mahdi 🔐Let's Encrypt Root Certificate 📱iOS 15 🇬🇧Britain's AI Plan

Sometimes developers only care about speed. Ignoring all the other advantages messaging has, they’ll ask us the following question: “But isn’t RPC faster than messaging?” In place of RPC, 1 they may…

On 30th September 2021, the root certificate that Let’s Encrypt is currently using, the IdentTrust DST Root CA X3 certificate, will expire. You may or may not need to do anything about this Root CA expiring, but I’m betting a few things will probably break on that day so here’s

Andrew “Boz” Bosworth will be Facebook’s new chief technology officer, succeeding Mike Schroepfer in 2022. He previously led Facebook’s AR / VR division.

The U.K. government has announced a national AI strategy – its first dedicated package aimed at boosting the country’s capabilities in and around machine learning technologies over the longer term. It says it hopes the strategy will lead to an increase in the number and types of AIs being developed and commercialized in the U.K. over the next 10 years. The plan to prioritize and “level up” development and applications of artificial intelligence follows earlier industrial and digital strategies – which talked up the promise of AI.

Netflix is launching a free mobile plan in Kenya as the streaming giant looks to tap the East African nation that is home to over 20 million internet users.

This should be a powerful and eye-opening feature.

David Evenden was hired in 2014 to work in Abu Dhabi on a defensive cybersecurity project, only to discover it was actually an offensive spy operation for a United Arab Emirates intelligence service.