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Lawmakers voted in favor of President Nayib Bukele’s proposal despite concern about potential impact on program with the IMF El Salvador has become the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after congress approved President Nayib Bukele’s proposal to embrace the cryptocurrency. Related: Salvadoran woman freed from prison nearly 10 years …

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Bug was introduced in May and lay dormant until a customer updated their settings, firm says An internet blackout that knocked out some of the world’s biggest websites on Tuesday was ultimately caused by a single customer updating their settings, the infrastructure provider Fastly has revealed. A bug in Fastly’s code introduced in mid-May had …

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A new French project ‘inspired’ by the Hitchcock classic could point the way to video games that riff off a film-maker’s wider aesthetic As someone who has just suffered through the living joyless hell of the Lego Incredibles game at a six-year-old’s insistence, I am the last person who needs to be reminded that video …

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iOS, PC, Switch; InkleYou are the murderous starlet forced to concoct your alibi in Inkle’s fresh and beautifully detailed paperback crime novel of a game Aboard an ocean liner travelling from Britain to New York in the late 1930s, a famous actor murders her husband by throwing him from the upper deck into the raging …

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Could using digital tags to track fish reduce seafood fraud, help conservation and hold everyone in the supply chain to account? In recent weeks, a new $50m (£35m) hybrid vessel set sail from Mauritius and headed out into the Southern Ocean where the crew will spend three months longline fishing for the Patagonian toothfish. By …

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Experts say outage shows internet services too centralised and lack resilience One of the world’s biggest web outages should act as a “wakeup call” that internet infrastructure has become dangerously over-centralised and lacks resilience, security experts have warned. An unexplained configuration error at a single infrastructure provider, Fastly, which handles 10% of the world’s internet …

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From retailers such as Amazon to government information portals, the service interruption took its tool The internet outage caused by a fault with cloud computing service Fastly took down thousands of websites in multiple countries, affecting governments and businesses in sectors ranging from media to online retail and telecoms. The interruption was relatively brief, lasting …

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Privacy protection is latest effort by the company to cut down tracking of users by advertisers and other third parties Apple’s new privacy feature designed to obscure a user’s web browsing from internet service providers and advertisers will not be available in China, Saudi Arabia or Belarus, the company has said. It was one of …

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PlayStation 5; Insomniac Games/SonyThis Star Wars-influenced action game about two furry aliens elevates the spectacle and fun to a new dimension At several points during my time with Ratchet & Clank – after landing on a new planet whose peculiar rocky landscape stretched off far into the distance, for instance, or while I was zipping …

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It is not clear if UK government had alternative that would have allowed services to be back online promptly This morning’s 45-minute internet outage which knocked out the Gov.UK domain – as well as a string of publishers and other websites – cannot easily be dismissed as an isolated event. It also demonstrates a lack …

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