Doctor on IBM's Watson: “This product is a piece of shit”

One doc called it “a piece of sh*t.” | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

GOP to Silicon Valley: Promote the Far Right or Else

Several members of the powerful House Judiciary Committee are threatening to regulate tech companies if they don’t promote conservative content to their satisfaction. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Jonathan Gold, Legendary L.A. Times Restaurant Critic, Is Dead at 57

One of America’s most influential writers about food has died of pancreatic cancer. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Did a Group of Grad Students Really Help Plan the Gulf War?

When grad students were asked to collect floor plans for buildings in Baghdad in the fall of 1990, were they helping preserve Iraqi culture—or to find targets for U.S. smart bombs? | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Mueller Finally Solves Mysteries About Russia’s ‘Fancy Bear’ Hackers

They may be part of the Kremlin’s best-known hacker crew. But many of their most important players were unknowns—until the Special Counsel stepped in. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Inside Bannon's Plan to Hijack Europe for the Far-Right

Bannon is moving to Europe to set up The Movement, a populist foundation to rival George Soros and spark a right-wing revolt across the continent. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

The White House’s refusal to rule out turning over former U.S. ambassador Michael McFaul to the Russians has current and former State Department officials seeing red. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Voting-Machine Vendor Put Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to U.S

Created opportunity for hackers. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

The president, former advisers say, is driven by a deep sense of insecurity about the election. And so he will never really confront his Russian counterpart. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

HHS Plans to Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week

Experts say the database of carefully curated medical guidelines is one of a kind, used constantly by medical professionals, and on July 16 will ‘go dark’ due to budget cuts. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

More details emerge about just how Sacha Baron Cohen got so many right-wing politicians to say so many ‘stupid’ things—including arguing for the arming of preschoolers. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

The Protect the House PAC aims to keep Republicans in control of Congress. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

This is an extraordinary moment. It is without equal not only in American history but in modern history. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

US HHS Plans to Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week

Experts say the database of carefully curated medical guidelines is one of a kind, used constantly by medical professionals, and on July 16 will ‘go dark’ due to budget cuts. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Mueller Indicts 12 Russian Officers for Hacking Dems in 2016

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that 12 Russian officials would be indicted in the Russia investigation. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

A key Republican came back from the Kremlin seemingly shrugging off Russian aggression. His colleagues are confused as hell by his talk. Inside a controversial mission to Moscow. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Trump’s North Korea Policy Just Collapsed

Pyongyang, by humiliating Secretary of State Pompeo, exposed the fallacy at the heart of American policy. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Scott Pruitt Wasn’t Corrupt Enough for Trumpistan

If you’re going to act like a local warlord, you’ve got to go big. Petty corruption is harder to excuse than bold piratical plundering. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Cops Called on African-American Lawmaker in Oregon for Knocking On Doors

Caller thought she was ‘casing the neighborhood,’ not campaigning. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

A delegation of Republican senators appealed to Moscow for better relations. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

ZTE Could Help Chinese ‘Institutes’ at Western Schools Become Surveillance Hubs

A new report warns: Beijing is ready to turn its controversial Confucius Institutes into data-collection centers—just as the Institutes up their partnership with the telecom ZTE. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Third-Party Developers Are Reading Gmail Messages

App developers say scanning millions of emails and employees reading them are “common practice.” | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

The false threat of murderous immigrants, the draconian response, a government agency going rogue—it’s all been seen before and it’s very dangerous. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

A Cyber-Security Expert Trolled the Trolls. Then One Killed Him

A Japanese cyber-security expert who defended basic decency was stabbed to death over the weekend. His killer was a troll who confessed he took revenge. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Trump will get his second Court pick. The Democrats will be furious. And one day, they’ll get their revenge too. Who’ll win this race to the bottom? | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Jill Abramson, Ex-New York Times Editor: The 'Narcissistic' NYT Is Making 'Horrible Mistakes,' Needs a 'Course Correction'

After her ‘pissed off’ tweet, the former editor slams the newspaper staff’s ‘narcissism,’ its ‘crucifying’ Ali Watkins profile, and ‘missing’ the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

ACLU: Border Agent Threatened to Put Immigrant's Daughter Up for Adoption

A Guatemalan woman was told her daughter would be sent to live with an American family if she didn’t agree for them both to be deported, according to her attorney. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

A Guatemalan woman was told her daughter would be sent to live with an American family if she didn’t agree for them both to be deported, according to her attorney. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani to Trump 2020 Campaign Manager Brad Parscale: 'Keep Quiet'

‘I don’t give them advice, and I sure as hell wouldn’t take any advice from them,’ the former New York mayor says of Trump’s political team. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Beijing Is Holding US Citizens Hostage in China

Exit bans are a new tool in China’s global coercion campaign. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Will Gen Z Finally Kill Facebook?

Teenagers don’t think the social media giant is cool anymore, but that’s all right. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

MH370 Didn’t Just Disappear, It Was Caught in a Swamp of Corruption

From the beginning, the crash investigation fell victim to a regime in Malaysia now revealed to have been one of the most corrupt in the world. There are other scandals, too. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

MH370 Didn’t Just Disappear, It Was Caught in a Swamp of Corruption

From the beginning, the crash investigation fell victim to a regime in Malaysia now revealed to have been one of the most corrupt in the world. There are other scandals, too. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

What It's Like When Elon Musk's Twitter Mob Comes After You

When female journalists like me dare to question the SpaceX and Tesla founder, there’s a predictable result: We get called bitches, idiots, and worse. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

What It’s Like When Elon Musk’s Twitter Mob Comes After You

When female journalists like me dare to question the SpaceX and Tesla founder, there’s a predictable result: We get called bitches, idiots, and worse. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

FBI Just Seized Control of 500K Node Russian Botnet

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


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

U.S. Government Can’t Get Controversial Kaspersky Lab Software Off Its Networks

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


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

FBI seizes control of Russian botnet

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


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

Nearly Half of You Reading This Have Bullshit Jobs

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


@thedailybeast.com | 5 years ago

President Trump’s addition to the Supreme Court sides with the bench’s ‘originalist’—and it has terrifying implications for your rights. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 6 years ago

CIA ‘Leaker’ Posted Agency Code Online–And CIA Never Noticed

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


@thedailybeast.com | 6 years ago

Russian Troll Farm Hijacked American Teen Girls’ Computers for Likes

Google says the extension has been removed ‘from every user’s computer,’ but a Daily Beast examination found otherwise. | Continue reading


@thedailybeast.com | 6 years ago

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


@thedailybeast.com | 6 years ago

Defector: WikiLeaks ‘Will Lie to Your Face’

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


@thedailybeast.com | 6 years ago

Generation Z Is Already Bored by the Internet

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


@thedailybeast.com | 6 years ago

Whatever Happened to the Book Herman Melville Wrote After ‘Moby-Dick’?

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


@thedailybeast.com | 6 years ago

Sympathy for the Incel

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


@thedailybeast.com | 6 years ago

The Midwest Is Booming–Just Not Where You Think

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


@thedailybeast.com | 6 years ago