• The intelligence community's research arm, Iarpa, wants to predict the future of, well, everything. Check out details on the far-out "Open Source Indicator Program." Darpa is currently running a similar program in Afghanistan.
• Amidst the Lulzec and Anonymous hacking episodes, the Office of the Inspector General has found some pretty gaping holes in the cyber security at DHS.
• The Technology Liberation Front wrote a good breakdown of Ed Markey and Joe Barton's "Do Not Track" bill.
• The Indian government has asked Skype and Google to cooperate with its surveillance plans. No word yet from the companies. 
• Apple releases its new Safari version, chock full of privacy enhancements.
• Texas will get another drone to police the US-Mexico border. This drone, the Predator, is weaponized.
• The Northern Ohio Fusion Center has set up a hotline for people to call in with tips about…teenagers planning flash mobs. Not joking.
• Telecommunications and surveillance giant Verint is acquiring a data-analytics firm called Vovici.
• A judge has decided that it's not such a big deal if a company renting out laptops secretly spies on users who rented the machines.
• Uh-oh, is Google spying on you?