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This São Paulo skyscraper is basically a 22-floor argument for wood being the coolest building material aliveCulture

This São Paulo skyscraper is basically a 22-floor argument for wood being the coolest building material alive

São Paulo architecture firm Königsberger Vannucchi has completed a 22-floor residential tower where each floor holds one giant apartment, clad in an eyebrow-raising combination of wood and porcelain.

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Congrats, your taste is now a superpower (thanks, AI slop)Culture

Congrats, your taste is now a superpower (thanks, AI slop)

The internet is drowning in AI-generated content - and according to GQ, that might be making genuine taste and curation more valuable than ever. Lucky you.

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Ford is cooking up cheap EVs in a secret skunkworks lab and we're choosing to be cautiously optimisticTech

Ford is cooking up cheap EVs in a secret skunkworks lab and we're choosing to be cautiously optimistic

Ford's secret skunkworks lab near a Long Beach airport is where the company is betting it can finally crack affordable EV development - right after cancelling the F-150 Lightning. Classic Ford.

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Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Miles Teller walk into Cannes - and yes, it's as good as it soundsCulture

Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Miles Teller walk into Cannes - and yes, it's as good as it sounds

James Gray's 'Paper Tiger,' starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Miles Teller, is one of only two American films competing at Cannes 2025 - and the first look photos are already generating serious buzz.

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There's a hacker group poisoning open source code and honestly it's kind of impressive (in a terrifying way)Tech

There's a hacker group poisoning open source code and honestly it's kind of impressive (in a terrifying way)

A hacking group called TeamPCP has been poisoning open source software packages at an unprecedented scale, hitting hundreds of organizations - with GitHub as their latest target.

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Uber burned through its entire AI budget in 4 months and has nothing to show for itTech

Uber burned through its entire AI budget in 4 months and has nothing to show for it

Uber reportedly burned through its entire 2026 AI budget by April, and now its own president is admitting it's hard to justify the spending when nobody can connect the costs to actual features.

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Your devices are about to get aggressively patched, and no, you cannot ignore it this timeTech

Your devices are about to get aggressively patched, and no, you cannot ignore it this time

Anthropic's new AI model Mythos just found decades-old security vulnerabilities in every major OS and browser. A flood of patches is incoming, and ignoring them could leave you dangerously exposed.

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