U.S. federal judge blocks key parts of Arizona immigration law Montreal Gazette
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial elements of Arizona’s new immigration law, thrilling the law’s opponents, dismaying its advocates and setting the stage for more legal battles in the future. “We would have liked to have seen it all upheld, but a temporary injunction is not the end of it,” said Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed the legislation in April. “I look at this as a little bump in the road.” The governor said she was looking forward to getting started on the appeals process. “Jan Brewer is not a quitter,” she said. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton halted implementation of the parts of the law that require police to determine the immigration status of people they stop and think are in the country illegally. She also forbade the state from charging anyone with failure to possess immigration documents, a crime under the new law.

Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring Wired
The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine ‘goes beyond search’ by ‘looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.’ The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down. Recorded Future then plots that chatter, showing online ‘momentum’ for any given event.

Digital TV Transition Could Lead to New Digital Divide Michael Geist
In just over one year, Canada is scheduled to complete the digital television transition, as stations switch from analog to digital broadcasts. While cable and satellite subscribers will not notice the change, over one million Canadians that rely on over-the-air signals will be affected. Despite the experience in other countries that left consumers without digital converter boxes staring at blank screens, the Canadian government seems content to leave the switch to the private sector, implausibly claiming “industry-led solutions will ensure a smooth transition for consumers.”

Google cleared of wi-fi snooping BBC
Google did not grab “significant” personal details when collecting data from wi-fi networks, according to the UK’s Information Commissioner Office (ICO). The finding came after the body reviewed some of the data Google scooped up from unsecured networks. Google said the data was “mistakenly” gathered while logging wi-fi hotspots to help with location-based services. The ICO said it would closely monitor other global investigations.

Google, CIA team up to invest in web monitoring software TechEye
Google and the CIA are teaming up to invest in a web monitoring software called Recorded Future, which scours the web to find connections between people and events, creating new privacy concerns when Google is already the subject of multiple investigations. Recorded Future, which describes itself as ‘the ultimate tool for open-source intelligence’, provides analysis of information and trends online to companies building brand names, but also provides its services to intelligence agencies as part of counter-terrorism measures. The CIA’s investment subsidiary, In-Q-Tel, clearly recognises this potential and is to pump upwards of $10 million into the firm. Google is also to invest around $10 million, raising numerous eyebrows at a time when it is trying to downplay privacy concerns over its Streetview snooping disaster. The Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK gave the search giant the all clear, but this latest investment will be watched closely by them and other data protection groups across the world. The disturbing potential of Recorded Future is revealed in its own manifesto, which suggests the possibility of predicting the curve before it happens, which puts it in a similar field as IBM’s recently launched predictive crime software.

Sweden’s Pirate ISP Offers Aid to Keep WikiLeaks Afloat Fast Company
The Swedish political Pirate Party has gone and embroiled itself in some hot news: It’s offering servers and hosting to WikiLeaks, the “whistleblowing” site that’s just published thousands of controversial secret military files on Afghanistan.

Abandoned 1854 ship found in Arctic CBC
HMS Investigator, abandoned in the Arctic 155 years ago during a search for Sir John Franklin’s expedition, has been found. Parks Canada archeologists looking for the ship found it 15 minutes after they started a sonar scan of Banks Island’s Mercy Bay in the Northwest Territories, said Marc-André Bernier, chief of Parks Canada’s underwater archeology service.

Police arrest suspect in G20 police cruiser attack CTV News
Toronto Police say they have arrested one man and released the name and photo of another they allege helped wreck a police cruiser during G20 rioting on June 26. Police announced Wednesday they had arrested Matthew McDonald, 33, of Toronto in connection with damage to a police car. McDonald faces charges of mischief under $5,000 and failure to comply with a probation order. He was scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday at Old City Hall.

BlackBerry agrees to address India’s security concerns: MHA Times of India
The government today said the makers of BlackBerry – Research in Motion (RIM) – has given an assurance to it on soon addressing its security concerns and hoped that the Canadian service provider and security agencies would be on the “same page”. “BlackBerry has assured the Ministry of Home Affairs that the issue of monitoring of the BlackBerry will be sorted out soon…I am sure we will soon be on the same page and our concerns will be addressed,” Special Security (Internal Security) in the MHA Utthan Kumar Bansal told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.

French mother charged with murder of eight newborn babies Guardian
A mother-of-two who worked as a nursing auxiliary in the north-eastern French city of Douai has been charged with the murder of eight of her newborn babies, sources said, as police pushed forward with their investigations into France’s apparently worst ever infanticide. The woman, who has been named locally as Dominique Cottrez, a lifelong inhabitant of the nearby village of Villers-au-Tertre, appeared before a judge this morning along with her husband, Pierre-Marie Cottrez, a pillar of the local community and municipal councillor.

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