Documents: multiple US military branches have bought access to Team Cymru’s Augury internet monitoring tool, which claims to cover 90%+ of internet traffic (Joseph Cox/VICE)

Aaron Gordon / VICE:
Yandex confirms hackers created a traffic jam in Moscow on September 1 by ordering dozens of taxis from Yandex Taxi to converge on the same location  —  Attackers attempted to disrupt ride-hailing app service on Thursday, the company confirmed.  —  Hackers created a traffic jam in Moscow …

Joseph Cox / VICE:
After an outcry over having transphobic forum Kiwi Farms as a client, Cloudflare says denying security services due to “despicable” content is the wrong policy  —  The company has faced mounting pressure to stop providing security services to Kiwi Farms, whose users regularly dox and stalk trans people.

Matthew Gault / VICE:
The DHS has awarded a ~$700K grant to researchers to develop best practices and resources for monitoring and evaluating extremist activities in game communities  —  Several groups are coming together to study the little understood phenomenon.  —  Matthew Gault

The Economic Times:
Large floods in Bengaluru have ignited a debate over the city’s future as India’s tech hub, amid a lack of infrastructure, poor urban planning, and traffic woes  —  Bengaluru’s residents have long complained about gridlocked traffic, water shortages, lack of infrastructure and poor urban planning …

Chloe Xiang / VICE:
Text-to-image generation systems like DALL-E and Midjourney use datasets built by scrapping images without explicit permission and it’s not easy to opt out  —  In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset …

Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Taiwan pledges to work closely with the US and other allies to implement “very firm” export controls and prevent China’s military from acquiring advanced chips  —  Taiwan pledged to work closely with the US and other allies to prevent China’s military from acquiring state-of-the-art technology …