With a height of 2,001 metres (6,565 ft), the mammoth structure would have been approximately five times as tall as the former World Trade Center in New York City.

The Aeropolis 2001 was proposed in 1989, amid a spate of similar projects for incredibly large buildings. All were proposed during the Japanese asset price bubble, which ended in the early 1990s

Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber Security Center

WTF

am-a-zing!

"Storm" by Gener8ion featuring Yung Lean. If the first half doesn't grab you, I promise it's worth sticking around, since the second half is why it's one of the best music videos in a while

A dad who lost his sense of taste and smell for years after catching covid has had both senses restored – thanks to specially-developed chewing gum

xD

Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman showed a consistent pattern of lying

The internet you grew up on isn't dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is

Android 16 has a silent VPN bug Google hasn't fixed for months, claim multiple VPN providers

Film created by Massive Attack (working with US photo artist thefinaleye). This montage work portrays a momentous American epoch that is yet to be named, and comes in the aftermath of the largest public protests in American history - focused on opposition to ICE raids, the militarisation of domestic forces, and state authoritarianism

BanRay.eu – a public service announcement and sticker campaign for prohibiting AI wearables in public spaces, with detailed citations

The Maseratis are borrowed, the helicopters rented by the hour. But deep down Dubai is a lonely place, built by oppressed people

For the first time in history researchers at CERN have transported 92 antiprotons on a truck in a specially designed magnetic enclosure

Bad News explained with a Good Map — Real-Time Crisis Intelligence

AI Isn’t Coming for Everyone’s Job

The rise and fall of the player piano indicates a robust demand for human labor that machines cannot replace

Binance is hoping that suing (PDF) The Wall Street Journal for defamation might help shake off a fresh round of government probes into how the cryptocurrency exchange failed to detect $1.7 billion in transfers to a network that was funding Iran-backed terror groups

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was built '95 percent' with Unreal Engine Blueprints

Sticking to a nearly-vanilla version of Unreal Engine kept Sandfall Interactive on track

"Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem"

Android app called Nearby Glasses alerts users when Bluetooth signals from smart glasses are detected nearby. The Android app, called Nearby Glasses, "launches at a time as there is an increasing resistance against always-recording or listening devices