People who received the brand new Apple TV 4k today saw some strange error messages as soon as they opened the YouTube app. As the first units arrived, the app was initially only showing a black screen with a QR code and an error message saying "YouTube is not yet available on this device." In some cases the app was functional, but had a transparent red bar stuck at the bottom of the screen saying, "YouTube app is approved for device testing only and not for production use."

Installing the new tvOS 27.2 update and rebooting wasn't enough to resolve the issue for The Verge's Tom Warren, he also had to uninstall and reinstall the app.

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TPM’s Untitled Live Show (Name TBD) returns today at 1 p.m. ET. If you think you’ve read all there is to be said about the Nvidia boss’ sex scandal, resignation and the ways in which it makes the Trump administration look wet behind the ears, just wait.

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YouTube is awash with videos on the best way to tie your shoes. Uri Bram of Atoms vs Bits says he finally found a method that works, called the Berluti knot.

From Atoms vs Bits:

Despite the fact that you would think this instruction is straightforward, and that just by chance if you went in random directions you would surely get it right about half the time, I was continuously unable to implement this and my laces continued indecorously untangling themselves.

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At Skydance's first employee town hall after it acquired Warner Bros. Discovery in October, CEO David Ellison told staff that the company behind Paramount Plus and HBO Max was competing for people's attention with some of the world's biggest tech companies. Months earlier, he'd singled out a way to get viewers to spend more time with Paramount's programming. A feed of short vertical videos, he said, was "critical to our future."

On Skydance's earnings call Monday, Ellison put a name to the competition. Add up all of Paramount's and Warner Bros. Discovery's broadcast, cable, and streaming properties, he said, and they still trail YouTube in …

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YouTube will resume sharing streaming data with Billboard in 2027 after changes to the chart formula give more weight to free, ad-supported music streams.