the times
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Car-Centric Los Angeles Could Ban New Gas Stations
In an attempt to curb local emissions, some in Los Angeles hope to ban the construction of new gas stations in the city.
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Wordle Is Watching You
It’s been less than a month since the New York Times bought Wordle, but it’s wasting no time in ruining everyone’s favourite word game in all the shitty ways you’d expect from a billion-dollar conglomerate. And — you guessed it — that means your little daily puzzles are being loaded with ad trackers now, too.
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Deepfaking Genitalia Into Blurred Porn Leads to Man’s Arrest in Japan
Another intriguing and lucrative use case exploring the potential of deepfake technology: dicks, unblurred. On Monday, police in Japan arrested a man who admitted to sharing porn that was deepfaked to clarify pixellated genitalia. According to The Mainichi, he sold over 2,500 video files for 11 million yen (roughly AU$128,700). The paper adds that this appears…
