AP sources: Israel is conducting small, precision raids across the border in Lebanon and a larger operation is planned

TechCrunch Reddit communities will require permission while going private or switching to NSFW Last year, while opposing Reddit's API changes, a large number of subreddits turned from public to private or turned NSFW (Not Safe for Work) to impact ads on the platform. To prevent this kind of change, Reddit is bringing new rules where moderators will have to submit a request when updating community-type public or private or maturity ratings of SFW (Safe for Work) or NSFW. The social networking site said that these changes will apply from today and will mostly impact large communities.

The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained The world of WordPress, one of the most popular technologies for creating and hosting websites, is going through a very heated controversy. The core issue is the fight between WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, which hosts websites built on WordPress. WordPress technology is open source and free, and it powers a huge chunk of the internet — around 40% of websites.

In war-torn Sudan, a displaced startup incubator returns to fuel innovation Unfortunately for anyone in Sudan, stability has been hard to come by for the past year and a half as the country quakes amidst a raging civil war. More than 20,000 people have been killed, and about 7.7 million people have been displaced just within the country; millions have had to flee across international borders as refugees. "On the Saturday when the war broke out, we had staff members in the office, and after three days, the RSF militia knocked on the door and said, 'You guys got to leave, and if you don't leave, there will be some bullets in the air,'" Yousif Yahya, the founder of Savannah Innovation Labs, told TechCrunch.

Why Index Ventures is bulking up its investment team in NYC While online discourse would make it seem that venture has retreated to the Bay Area, with San Francisco being the most important place to build a startup, Index Ventures is looking to bulk up its New York-based investing team. The firm is currently looking to hire another New York-based investor with plans to add three or four new people to the team within the next year, Shardul Shah, a partner at Index Ventures, told TechCrunch. "For a venture fund, that's hypergrowth," Shah said, adding that Index is trying to "capitalize on the ecosystem here, and the energy we have as a team."