Headlines from July 14, 2014

One year from today, mankind will make its first contact with Pluto via a spacecraft the size of a baby grand piano.
America’s great pot experiment: Legalization in certain states has been more treacherous than others, and could end after Obama.
Berkeley City Council votes to give free medical marijuana to low-income patients—though non-poor pot users may bear the cost.
Pot-smoking workers in legalized states can still be fired, or never hired, if their employer forbids marijuana use.
Compared to 2008 there are fewer wars, but less peacefulness—though non-violence is the most effective way to achieve goals.
I disconnected the phone and cut myself off. For a documentary filmmaker captured by the Taliban, life got worse after his release.
Backgrounder on the Arab World’s al Qaeda heirs.
With its development of smart bullets, the Pentagon could reduce the time and expense of training snipers.
The CIA Style Guide is now available online.
Account passwords will soon die, to be replaced by any number of technologies already in place.
See also: The history of passwords, explained in illustrated form. #tmn
You cannot fly an airplane without cutting any corners. Why pilots don’t want cockpit cameras.
Microsoft accurately predicted the outcome of each match in the final rounds of the World Cup.
I’m struck by how perfectly her grave reflects her life: at once dilapidated, lonely; and yet unique, inviting, nearby to children. #longreads
When your cat becomes famous, you become its agent: on owning Grumpy Cat.
It’s up to us, the public, to save what we can. When online services die.