Monthly Archives: September 2022

Facebook admits to “error” banning Holocaust movie for violating race policy

Enlarge / Writer-director Joshua Newton and actor Roy Scheider. (credit: Tana Lee Alves / Contributor | WireImage) This September, British filmmaker Joshua Newton prepared to rerelease his 2009 film Beautiful Blue Eyes. The 2022 premiere was important to Newton, as he’d waited more than a decade to finally share with the world a version of…

Record monsoon flooding in Pakistan due to a confluence of factors

Enlarge / Flooding in Pakistan’s Sindh province. (credit: Ali Hyder Junejo) In August, Pakistan set destructive records as it averaged more than triple its normal August monsoon rainfall. In the southern provinces of Sindh and Balochistan, the number was seven to eight times the average. The resulting flooding killed around 1,500 people and displaced more…

Hacker gains ‘full access’ to Uber’s networks using one of oldest tricks in the book

An Uber employee just fell for social engineering 101. Soumil Kumar/Pexels Uber announced yesterday that it had taken many of its internal communications channels and engineering systems offline after an anonymous individual gained access to scores of secure data that purportedly includes emails, cloud storage, and coding repositories. The still unknown person claiming responsibility has…

TechCrunch+ roundup: Growth activation metrics, 3 keys to Series B, pitch deck teardown

In his latest TC+ post, growth expert Jonathan Martinez looks at the grim realities of user acquisition. The plain fact is, few of the people who are motivated enough to make it all the way through a registration flow ever create any value. “Approximately 95.87% of iOS users drop off after day 30,” writes Martinez….