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The internet was the best thing that happened to television — that is, unless you were a “Game of Thrones” fan who hadn’t read the books, a McDonald’s employee in 2017, or one of the producers who spent half a decade on “Lost.” The virtual spaces that gave us the ability to find community and…

Xbox is telling every console owner to install a mandatory update by August 17, 2026, or risk running into the same bug that locked players out of games they already owned last month. The update closes a hole exposed by a July 26–27 outage that Xbox’s own chief technology officer, Scott Van Vliet, called “unacceptable”…