{"slug": "tsme-no-longer-available-on-amd-consumer-cpus", "title": "TSME no longer available on AMD consumer CPUs", "summary": "AMD has covertly stripped TSME (Transparent Secure Memory Encryption) support from its consumer CPUs, a move that reduces security protections for users. The change was discovered by the community and appears deliberate, raising concerns about AMD's transparency and commitment to consumer security.", "body_md": "##\n[20 years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/20-years-of-intel-macs-why-apple-switched-and-why-it-switched-again/)\n\nRemembering the ups and downs of the Intel Mac era as it finally winds down.\n\n[159](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/20-years-of-intel-macs-why-apple-switched-and-why-it-switched-again/#comments)\n\nRemembering the ups and downs of the Intel Mac era as it finally winds down.\n\nIsar Aerospace is not hurting for money, but it is sorely lacking in the currency of flight experience.\n\nDespite continued benefits, anti-vaccine rhetoric has driven down vaccination.\n\nCritics say bans push kids to riskier alternatives and can be beaten with VPNs.\n\nDebt sale set to test investor appetite for further exposure to AI sector amid a deluge of borrowing.\n\nIsar Aerospace is not hurting for money, but it is sorely lacking in the currency of flight experience.\n\nDespite continued benefits, anti-vaccine rhetoric has driven down vaccination.\n\nCritics say bans push kids to riskier alternatives and can be beaten with VPNs.\n\nDebt sale set to test investor appetite for further exposure to AI sector amid a deluge of borrowing.\n\nThe rocket’s breakup likely generated 100 to 150 new pieces of space junk.\n\nFox plans to take over Roku’s streaming hardware, OS, and FAST services.\n\nAMD’s stripping of TSME from consumer CPUs appears to be a deliberate, covert move.\n\nWill the Sun roast Earth’s plants or starve them?\n\nArmed with a ton of new upgrades, Ferrari came to Spain full of confidence.\n\nThis has been a persistent, behind-the-scenes dispute between NASA and Roscosmos.\n\nFailure raises questions about how Verizon prepares refurbished phones for new users.\n\nUniversity of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018 and 1066.\n\nThere’s nothing new or surprising, but it’s still an entertaining film from one of our greatest directors.\n\nResearchers have quantified the length and mass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks globally.\n\nCommerce dept. worries that a Fable 5 “jailbreak” could be a national security threat.\n\nAs of today, SpaceX is owned by investors who will want to see it make money.\n\nVulnerability in the Oracle-owned PeopleSoft software is about as critical as they come.\n\nSection 702 of FISA to expire tonight, but certification lasts until March 2027.\n\nIt isn’t the only startup tackling physical AI, but it’s one of the best-funded.\n\nA pending report on climate attribution may be setting the stage for conflict.\n\nFull autonomy is rare, but Ukraine is installing AI modules on drones and robots.\n\nWinning fight against AI data centers gives people a “taste of political power.”\n\nEven moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.\n\nThe fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.\n\nNYT reported Kennedy is disengaged. Kennedy’s response seems to show NYT is right.\n\nMore than 350,000 spectators will watch 62 cars compete, day and night.\n\nDid chatbot abandon mental health guardrails when a vulnerable user pushed back?\n\nThis World Cup, refs will use digital twins of each player to view plays from every angle.\n\nOutbreak responses are still playing catch-up as US works to isolate itself.\n\nThe repurposing of *Pokémon Go* data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.\n\n“If I needed to fly on another vehicle, what would that look like?”\n\nCruz/Wyden bill would help Americans sue federal officials over censorship.\n\nThe old app “still needs to be retired,” AcuRite tells us.\n\n“Some missions are using more than what their paperwork would say.”\n\nLatency, bandwidth, and fidelity all matter when you’re chasing milliseconds.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tsme-no-longer-available-on-amd-consumer-cpus", "canonical_source": "https://arstechnica.com/", "published_at": "2026-06-16 08:39:52+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-16 08:48:25.184165+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["AMD", "TSME"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tsme-no-longer-available-on-amd-consumer-cpus", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tsme-no-longer-available-on-amd-consumer-cpus.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tsme-no-longer-available-on-amd-consumer-cpus.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tsme-no-longer-available-on-amd-consumer-cpus.jsonld"}}