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Enlarge / Christopher Krebs, director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, at a recent Senate hearing. Krebs issued a warning earlier this week on a surge in Iranian state-sponsored…

Enlarge / An inside view of the new Mac Pro. reader comments 244 with 146 posters participatingShare this storyApple is manufacturing the new Mac Pro in China, marking a change from the previous Mac Pro that was made in the US. Apple…

Spotify seems to have learned little from the Facebook developer platform’s scandals despite getting a huge boost from the social network in its early days. Spotify has been caught allowing record labels to grab tons of unnecessary user…

reader comments 18 with 12 posters participatingShare this storyThe US House of Representatives has voted to block Ajit Pai's attempt to kill a San Francisco ordinance designed to promote broadband competition in apartment buildings.…

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. San Francisco takes the final steps toward…

Enlarge / An effective wiper of sorts.Getty Imagesreader comments 18 with 13 posters participating, including story authorShare this storyWith tensions between the US and Iran on the rise following the downing of a US military drone…

As Facebook grapples with the spread of hate speech on its platform, it is introducing changes that limit the spread of messages in two countries where it has come under fire in recent years: Sri Lanka and Myanmar. In a blog post on…

Everyone’s worried about Mark Zuckerberg controlling the next currency, but I’m more concerned about a crypto Cambridge Analytica. Today Facebook announced Libra, its forthcoming stablecoin designed to let you shop and send money overseas…

Enlarge / Wind turbines near Palm Springs, Calif. reader comments 35 with 23 posters participatingShare this storyLast week, US senators and representatives introduced bills in the Senate and the House to open up a type of corporate…

Enlarge / AT&T service truck driving on a street in a residential neighborhood on May 17, 2019 in Sunnyvale, Calif. reader comments 46 with 41 posters participatingShare this storyAT&T has informed employees of plans to cut…