Tom Warren

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if you just bought the new Apple TV and you’re getting an error message with the YouTube app, here’s the fix. Make sure you update to tvOS 27.2 and then force restart Apple TV (hold down the 📺 and back buttons for 5 secs) and then uninstall YouTube and reinstall it 👍

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Microsoft appears to be making some progress with its huge Exchange / Outlook outage. Mailbox access is gradually coming back online for some customers. Sources tell me the outage has been linked to Azure VNet config changes

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text from my sister 😅

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

Microsoft’s Exchange / Outlook outage has been ongoing for more than 12 hours. It’s impacting email worldwide for businesses, governments, and consumers. Engineers are struggling to bring servers back up due to a complex series of failures. Postmortem will be an interesting read

[Microsoft 365 Status @MSFT365Status]

We’re seeing positive results for service stability and increased capacity as a result of our latest traffic optimization actions. We're implementing these actions more broadly across affected regions as we seek to attain persistent recovery. A more comprehensive update can be found at MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as https://t.co/pYdahqxDv3 if the admin center is not available to you.

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Xbox announces that Wolfenstein 3 is officially in production. MachineGames has confirmed that actors Brian Bloom and Debra Wilson will return for the game https://t.co/0umhBgBf2d

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you can now customize the Xbox Guide menu to appear on the right side. So let's do the Cha-Cha Slide

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Xbox owners are getting more customizations for backgrounds and the Guide menu. You'll be able to favorite backgrounds and shuffle them, and move the Guide menu to the right side. Full details here: https://t.co/xPpt7oDH59

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Xbox has added a fullscreen prompt for GTA 6 preorders when you enter the store from the Xbox dashboard

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an Xbox with a button that moves between horizontal and vertical orientations. Make it happen @XBOX

[Jon Clarke | DayOne @_Sikamikanico_]

Touring Building 87 at Microsoft, and @carl_ledbetter demo'd this awesome power button prototype that never shipped.

Very cool.

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I am hearing that Microsoft's Outlook outage is down to some kind of rollout that caused servers to spike CPU usage, causing racks to go into maintenance mode and creating cascading failures

[Microsoft 365 Status @MSFT365Status]

We’re opening all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief. We found a core process on affected servers is becoming overwhelmed, causing capacity loss. To validate a potential recovery, we're isolating a portion of infrastructure, restarting affected components, and reintroducing traffic to confirm the services remain stable before applying the change more broadly. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as https://t.co/pYdahqxDv3 if the admin center is not available to you.

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21 more original Xbox games are coming to PC today, thanks to Xbox Backward Compatibility. More than 10 Star Wars games will be available, as well as Morrowind, Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb, Timesplitters 2 and Future Perfect, and more https://t.co/whwqD5amC7

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@901_sorrows If they remake this for PC my non existent social life is over

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my Xbox Playback has no surprises 🥲

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at this point it’s easier to have an intimate relationship with Jensen Huang than it is to buy an RTX 5090

[Reuters @Reuters]

Ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had an intimate relationship with a second employee, according to two people familiar with the matter, Reuters has learned https://t.co/5886PxcVnx

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I reported in July that id were in the “early stages of a new Doom game” and now it’s confirmed. “It’ll be some time before we’re ready to share more.”

[id Software @idSoftware]

@asha_shar We're incredibly excited about our next project, a new game from our teams in Texas and Frankfurt, with game direction once again by Hugo Martin. It'll be some time before we're ready to share more but we can't wait for you to see what we're working on.

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great improvement for X 🙏

[Jonah Katz @dinkin_flickaa]

Big update to the X platform today

After 10 years of Twitter/X supporting up to 4 Photos and Videos per post, the limit has been increased to 20!

Happy posting

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

Microsoft Outlook is down. Microsoft 365 issues are cutting people off from their email, as well as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft 365 Copilot https://t.co/4odaKBRKQS

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new Fable footage just dropped 👀

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@Shams184096 they have the fanfest in Seattle today 👍

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

25 years later, Xbox is trying to reinvent itself again. In my Notepad newsletter this week I look back at Microsoft's radical Xbox bet, and how it now needs something similar for another 25 years of Xbox. Live for subscribers 👇 https://t.co/sK9ON442cA