CNBC reports that El Salvador “is looking to introduce legislation that will make it the world’s first sovereign nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, alongside the U.S. dollar.” In a video broadcast to Bitcoin 2021, a multiday conference in Miami being billed as the biggest bitcoin event in history, President Nayib Bukele announced El…

Slashdot reader ochinko (user #19,311) shares The Register’s report about a recent presentation by Google engineer Peter Hochschild. His team discovered machines with higher-than-expected hardware errors that “showed themselves sporadically, long after installation, and on specific, individual CPU cores rather than entire chips or a family of parts.” The Google researchers examining these silent corrupt…

We got a look at the entry-level GR 86 at Toyota’s headquarters in Plano, Texas. …read more Source:: CNet

The site has been blocked in the country, and the government has reportedly ordered authorities to arrest and prosecute Twitter users. …read more Source:: CNet

It’s now nearly four decades since the iconic Commodore 64 8-bit computer saw the light of day, and the vintage format shows no sign of dying. Enthusiasts have produced all kinds of new takes on the platform, but it’s fair to say that most of them have concentrated on the original style keyboard console form…

“Earthquakes shouldn’t occur more than 300 kilometers below Earth’s surface, according to most geophysical models,” reports Science magazine. “Yet they commonly do — a phenomenon that has mystified seismologists for decades.” Slashdot reader sciencehabit shares their report on one possible explanation: that water carried by the tectonic plates shoved beneath continents “could be triggering these…

Catch up on Love, Victor before the second season premiere. …read more Source:: CNet

A couple of Christopher Nolan Batman flicks are among the new arrivals this month. …read more Source:: CNet

Here are a bunch of options to check out tonight. …read more Source:: CNet

Binge season 2 of Feel Good in one sitting or start new fantasy Sweet Tooth. …read more Source:: CNet