System76 is one a handful of companies that sells computers that run Linux software out of the box. But like most PCs that have shipped with Intel’s Core processors in the past few years, System76 ...

Hidden inside your Intel-based computer is a mystery program called Management Engine (ME). It, along with Trusted Execution Engine (TXE) and Server Platform Services (SPS), can be used to remotely ...

It seems some government customers can request Intel's always-on Management Engine (ME) 'master controller' for its CPUs to be disabled. That's not an option for the general public, but researchers at ...

Five or so years ago, Intel rolled out something horrible. Intel’s Management Engine (ME) is a completely separate computing environment running on Intel chipsets that has access to everything. The ME ...

Linux computer vendor System76 announced this week that it will roll out a firmware update to disable Intel Management Engine on laptops sold in the past few years. Purism will also disable Intel ...

Several years ago, security researchers began sounding the alarm about Intel's Management Engine (IME). IME support allows the laptop to run an entirely separate OS with what amounts to backdoor ...

Intel has released a new set of updates for the Intel Management Engine. There are multiple significant security vulnerabilities in the engine that this should address, once OEMs make fixes available.

A previously undocumented kill switch for a remote management feature baked into many Intel chips can be switched off. Researchers at Positive Technologies forced Intel’s hand at revealing that a ...

There is growing unrest concerning the scope and potential for mischief arising from the deployment of modern processors packing Intel’s Management Engine. Back in May the EFF published an article ...

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines states, “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” This law remains unassailable. However, recent claims have called into question a ...