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Microsoft's Outlook service went down hard Thursday, leaving users across North America locked out of their Exchange Online mailboxes. The company acknowledged the outage on X just before one in the afternoon Eastern Time, confirming it was investigating access failures across multiple connection methods. No timeline for full restoration was given.
Shifting to Capitol Hill, Republican lawmakers are in active negotiations to bring Nvidia's recently resigned CEO Jensen Huang before Congress. The move signals growing legislative interest in the semiconductor giant's role in artificial intelligence and chip supply chains, and suggests Huang's departure from the top job hasn't reduced Washington's appetite for answers.
And on the gaming front, Xbox is marking its twenty-fifth anniversary with a feature called Xbox Playback, which lets users dig through their entire gaming history going all the way back to their first console boot-up. Meanwhile, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma used the milestone to look ahead, suggesting that artificial intelligence will soon allow a single developer to build what once required the resources of an entire nation. Whether that's a promise or a warning probably depends on who's listening.
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