AdGuard: EasyList, a community-run filter list used by popular ad blockers, is being throttled by the YuZu browser; many ad blockers cannot download updates (Lewis Maddison/TechRadar)

Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers:
Qualcomm announces the Qualcomm S3 Gen 2 and Qualcomm S5 Gen 2 for wireless audio gear with support for spatial audio, improved ANC, lossless music, and more  —  The new SoCs are optimized for Bluetooth LE Audio and unlock several premium audio experiences

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 …

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 …

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Twitter seems to have disabled Spaces, its live audio service, after Musk joined and then abruptly left a group conversation that included suspended journalists  —  Twitter has apparently pulled its Spaces group audio feature, at least temporarily, after Elon Musk joined a group conversation …

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Meta AI researchers unveil Encodec, a neural network trained to compress audio at a ~10x rate compared with the MP3 format at 64Kbps, without a loss in quality  —  Technique could allow high-quality calls and music on low-quality connections.  —  Last week, Meta announced …

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Brave says it will hide and block cookie consent notifications with an approach “more privacy-preserving” than similar systems used in other browsers  —  The Brave browser will soon allows users to block annoying and potentially privacy-harming cookie consent banners on all websites they visit.