The FBI operation targets a piece of sophisticated malware linked to the same Russian hacking group that hit the Democratic National Committee in 2016. | Continue reading
The law says American agencies must eliminate the use of Kaspersky Lab software by October. U.S. officials say that’s impossible—it’s embedded too deep in our infrastructure. | Continue reading
The FBI operation targets a piece of sophisticated malware linked to the same Russian hacking group that hit the Democratic National Committee in 2016. | Continue reading
In ‘Bullshit Jobs,’ the anthropologist David Graeber ticks off the many ways in which people feel they waste their lives from 9 to 5. | Continue reading
President Trump’s addition to the Supreme Court sides with the bench’s ‘originalist’—and it has terrifying implications for your rights. | Continue reading
He’s been fingered as the man who gave away some of the CIA’s most important secrets. And for years, he was practically hiding in plain sight. | Continue reading
Google says the extension has been removed ‘from every user’s computer,’ but a Daily Beast examination found otherwise. | Continue reading
Ezra Cohen-Watnick ran intelligence for the National Security Council. There, he decided collecting his colleagues’ phone and email data was a good idea. | Continue reading
He was a true believer in Julian Assange and his secret-spilling operation—until he realized what Assange’s grand plan really was. | Continue reading
Today’s teens are still bored, often incredibly so. They’re just more likely to experience a new type of boredom: phone bored. | Continue reading
By June 1853, Herman Melville had taken ‘Isle of the Cross’ to his New York publisher. And that is the last time the finished manuscript was seen. | Continue reading
A young man like Jack Peterson, a self-described ‘incel,’ seems not so much a product of toxic masculinity as a failure of masculinity itself. | Continue reading
Do the math: The average millennial needs 28 years for a San Francisco down payment, compared to nine years in Minneapolis and less than three in Kansas City. | Continue reading
Scientific history is littered with bitter and fierce rivalries, as well as acrimony felt by those who history slighted. That wasn't the case with the man who inspired Darwin. | Continue reading