T-Mobile's 12-hour Monday outage wasn't due to a DDoS attack

[Engadget The Morning After logo]( Now available on your smart speaker and wherever you get your podcasts [Apple Podcasts]( | [Spotify]( | [Google Play]( | [iHeart Radio]( It's Tuesday, June 16, 2020. With no E3 this year, video game news is flowing steadily every day, and EA kicked off the week by [revealing its 5v5 X-wing vs. TIE fighter shooter Star Wars: Squadrons](. While space dogfighting sims of various scale have always been around, this one includes the hook of cross-platform play, which will include players using VR headsets on PC and PlayStation. [Star Wars: Squadrons] EA I’ve gotten a little tired of the squad shooter format, but shootouts in space that work across platforms is enough to pull me back in, and that’s before you add the Star Wars tie-in with a story that takes place after Return of the Jedi. Unfortunately the [two-minute trailer we have now]( is more hat than cattle, as EA’s saving a “full gameplay reveal” on June 18th.  — Richard T-Mobile’s outage finally ended after more than twelve hours Even Ajit Pai was upset. [T-Mobile Logo (white on magenta, RGB, JPEG)] T-Mobile From about noon ET on yesterday, T-Mobile customers across the US had trouble with their voice and text message services. The company blamed it on a routing problem, and CEO Mike Sievert wrote that “an IP traffic related issue that has created significant capacity issues in the network core throughout the day.” The outage was so bad that Down Detector lit up hotspots in major cities, causing people to spread poorly sourced conspiracy theories about DDoS attacks from whatever enemy they could imagine. If you’re still wondering how a problem like this could be so bad and last for so long, then Cloudflare CEO and DDoS protection expert Matthew Prince [has a thread]( explaining the “far more boring” reality of what happened. [Continue reading.]( Nintendo made a free ‘jump rope’ fitness game for the Switch It’s no Ring Fit Adventure. [Nintendo Jump Rope Challenge] Nintendo I haven’t been to the gym. You haven’t, either. And you hate running. Same. So let your Switch act as some sort of calorie burner, for free. The company has launched a free jump rope challenge game that logs your efforts through the Joy-Cons. It supports up to two players if you have a competitive spirit, and hey, no rope to trip over. Nintendo says the limited run will last through the end of September. 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And, in 2020, with the likes of the new iPhone SE, the OnePlus 7 Pro and the Pixel 3a, there are some truly good phones to get. Chris Velazco, who knows way too much about all these phones, breaks down what you need to know. [Continue reading.]( Philips Hue’s latest smart bulb is blindingly bright Its latest smart bulb is rated at 1,600 lumens. [Philips Hue] Philips Philips Hue has unveiled its brightest smart bulb yet, boasting an output of 1,600 lumens, which is the equivalent of a traditional 100W bulb. The brand says it’s enough to light a kitchen or garage, and if it’s ever a little too bright, you can dim the bulb wirelessly via the app. Each bulb will cost $19.99. [Continue reading.]( But wait, there’s more... 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