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82-0 is the best basketball game, to hell with NBA 2K
Can you go undefeated? | Screenshot: The Verge 82-0 marries the stat nerd fun of fantasy basketball with instant gratification and a bit of dumb luck. The goal is to draft a team of players that could (theoretically) have a perfect 82-0 season. Obviously, if you just had free rein to pick whoever you wanted from throughout history, there would be little challenge. The twist is that the site randomly selects a team and an era, and then you pick a single player. So, for example, if you pulled t
Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM
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Critical Everest Forms Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-3300) in the Everest Forms Pro plugin, which lets them take complete control of a WordPress website. [...]
Meta made its own AI-generated clickbait news feed
An AI-generated image of the royal family featuring two Queen Elizabeth IIs. | Image: Meta AI Facebook has long been filled with feeds of clickbait articles. Now, Meta is making its own clickbait articles with AI. The standalone Meta AI app now has a "For You" section that populates a list of clickbait-style stories for you to read. But the topics, images, and text are all AI-generated - and as questionable as you'd expect from AI-created works. The Meta AI app first launched in April 2025 wi
Fooling Go's X.509 Certificate Verification
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New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration
OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks. The feature is primarily designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data and require stricter protection guarantees. Lockdown Mode is available to logged-in users across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and
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