New Zealand: Biometric Payment Terminals
July 31st, 2026“like, wow”.
Via: Radio New Zealand:
Kiwis could soon be able to make purchases using their face or hand, without the need for a card.
EFTPOS New Zealand is rolling out new Verifone Victa biometric payment terminals that will allow people to pay with their faces or palms – without cards.
The new tech can also act as an age verification tool in stores that sell liquor and vapes, for example, or automatically load up people’s loyalty programmes.
Retail NZ chief executive Carolyn Young said when she first heard about the tech, she was “like, wow”.
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Asked if there were valid privacy concerns around the tech, Young said there was “quite a lot of education and language that needs to be used so that everybody understands what it means”.
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Thousands of Immigrants Pour into Spanish Territory in North Africa
July 30th, 2026Via: AP:
Spain will deploy its military to restore order at its border with Morocco in Ceuta after thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory.
The announcement comes after local authorities in Ceuta had asked the central government in Madrid for reinforcements to manage a border crisis that had been building up before boiling over on Thursday with large crowds of people breeching the border fence.
Spain’s government said Thursday evening it would send the Armed Forces to help the Civil Guard “to maintain security in the city of Ceuta.” It also announced that Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez would join Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska and visit Ceuta Friday.
“The situation is absolute chaos,” Rachid Sbihi, head of the association that represents Spain’s Civil Guard officers in Ceuta, who police the border told The Associated Press. “It’s not possible to give precise numbers, but there are thousands of migrants crossing,” he said, adding that the border had “totally collapsed.”
Anthony Fauci Pleads the Fifth During Republican Questioning on COVID
July 29th, 2026Well this didn't age wellpic.twitter.com/prvxPsrHpF
— Julian Assange (@ImJulianAssange) July 29, 2026
Via: USA Today:
Dr. Anthony Fauci may be held in contempt of Congress after refusing to answer Republicans’ questions about the origins of COVID-19, invoking the Fifth Amendment right against incriminating himself during a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday.
Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who for years pushed for answers about the origin of the coronavirus, said a Senate panel will hold a vote on whether to hold Fauci in contempt. He said Fauci should have testified because former President Joe Biden issued him a preemptive pardon.
Fauci appeared under subpoena in a hearing so tense that Paul had one of Fauci’s attorneys ejected from the room. After reading a statement saying the purpose of the hearing was to entrap him, Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to otherwise respond to a barrage of questions from Republicans.
And Now… Ebola Vaccine Trial
July 28th, 2026Via: University of Oxford:
The University of Oxford’s Oxford Vaccine Group has today successfully vaccinated the first volunteer in the world’s first clinical trial of a vaccine designed to protect against Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV).
The milestone comes just weeks after the launch of the BD-Ebov study and marks the first time the ChAdOx1 BDBV vaccine has been administered to humans.
The ChAdOx1 BDBV vaccine was developed by scientists at the University of Oxford’s Oxford Vaccine Group and Pandemic Sciences Institute using the same vaccine technology as the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, which is estimated to have saved around six million lives during its first year of use. (sic)
GrapheneOS Wipe at Airport Leads to Federal Charge in Atlanta
July 28th, 2026Via: Reclaim the Net:
The Justice Department is asking a federal court in Atlanta to treat a man’s erasure of his own phone as destruction of property, in the first known US prosecution built on a phone’s duress password.
Samuel Tunick faces one count under Title 18, Section 2232(a), a statute covering the destruction of property to stop the government from taking it. Prosecutors say he handed Customs and Border Protection officers a passcode that deleted the contents of his Google Pixel instead of unlocking it. His lawyers appeared before the court for the first time on Monday, arguing that officers ran a custodial interrogation without Miranda warnings, denied him a lawyer, and searched him unlawfully. They want everything obtained from the encounter suppressed.
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