June 16, 2015

• US drone strike kills al Qaeda leader who refused to join ranks with ISIS.
• Nearly 27 years after his father was elected president, Jeb Bush officially announces his campaign.
• Source code of Jeb's website contained several paragraphs summarizing the Die Hard films.
• South Korean government requires smartphone users under the age of 19 to use app that monitors their web activity.
• Emoji passwords, which are more secure and easier to remember, could replace traditional four-digit PINs.
• Chinese university hiring students to post pro-China comments.
• More than 100 years after foot-binding was banned in China, some of its practitioners are still alive.
• Craig Hicks's motive for murdering three Muslim students in North Carolina last February may never be entirely clear.
• Cold weather trapped dolphins in Arctic ice, where polar bears are hunting and freezing them for later.
• The island nation of Palau flexes its territorial muscle by burning commercial fishing boats at sea.
• Since 2011 Chuck Blazer has been an informant on FIFA corruption for US prosecutors.
• "I just want one morning where I don't wake up thinking about the flood."
• Epidemiologist employes news aggregator to expose international wildlife crimes.
• Mathematicians are hoarding chalk from a recently shuttered Japanese brand.
• The top guest star on The X-Files is a Vancouver forest that's been everywhere from Puerto Rico to Siberia.
• June 16 isn't just Bloomsday. It's also when James Joyce met the love of his life.
• Study finds posting fitness goals on Facebook doesn't coerce you to exercise more.
• "School is for suckers" and other myths Silicon Valley needs to destroy to survive.
• Unlike card games like bridge and poker, the classic game of euchre resists easy digitization.