Day: December 7, 2023

Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Profiteering has played a significant role in boosting inflation during 2022, according to a report that calls for a global corporation tax to curb excess profits. Analysis of the financial accounts of many of the UK’s biggest businesses found that profits far outpaced increases in costs, helping to push up inflation last year to levels Read more about Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows[…]

Your Organs Might Be Aging at Different Rates

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The number of birthdays you’ve had—better known as your chronological age—now appears to be less important in assessing your health than ever before. A new study shows that bodily organs get “older” at extraordinarily different rates, and each one’s biological age can be at odds with a person’s age on paper. […] The team sampled Read more about Your Organs Might Be Aging at Different Rates[…]

Nearly Every Windows and Linux Device Vulnerable To New LogoFAIL Firmware Attack

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“Researchers have identified a large number of bugs to do with the processing of images at boot time,” writes longtime Slashdot reader jd. “This allows malicious code to be installed undetectably (since the image doesn’t have to pass any validation checks) by appending it to the image. None of the current secure boot mechanisms are Read more about Nearly Every Windows and Linux Device Vulnerable To New LogoFAIL Firmware Attack[…]