AMD's Secure Memory Encryption (SME) feature will remain disabled by default in future Ryzen-based Linux PCs. That's because the feature has been found to be very problematic on some of those systems.

Secure Boot has always been a nuisance for Linux users, but Microsoft's expiring 2011 certificate authorities are making it a ...

'We will reinstate this option in an upcoming BIOS release in July,' AMD says.

Newer versions of the UEFI BIOS component AGESA disable a feature on some AMD Ryzen processors that they should never have – ...

As Ars reported last week, AMD stripped the protection, known as TSME, from consumer Ryzen processors. Short for Transparent ...

AMD memory encryption is returning to consumer Ryzen 9000 desktop chips after the company reversed a silent AGESA 1.2.7.0 ...

The change came to light in April, when Ben Kilpatrick installed a new OS on a Ryzen 7 9700X system built on AMD's Zen 5 ...

A newly surfaced report suggests AMD has quietly disabled Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) support on consumer Ryzen processors through its AGESA 1.2.

A decade ago, AMD added a protection to its high-end CPUs to protect them against cold boot attacks and other types of ...

Secure Boot certificate expiry 2026 arrives June 24 when Microsoft’s KEK CA 2011 expires. Devices missing the UEFI 2023 ...