A new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to AI companies.
Multiple (most?) motherboard manufacturers have options to install drivers and software from the BIOS. So you don’t have to go download it elsewhere just to get your system up and running.
That setting can be turned off. In fact they usually turn themselves off after the first boot because otherwise it would prompt every time.
But, you’re referencing Lenovo, a full system integrator, not a separate hardware company. Of course the system integrators bundle shit, that’s not new at all. They’ve done that for decades.
This wasn’t just software preinstalled on Windows. It was a rootkit that ran before the OS loaded to overwrite Windows files. It couldn’t be removed until Lenovo released software to kill it.
Even if you did a clean install, it would reinstall crap loaded with vulnerabilities.
Lenovo had spyware baked into the chips that would reinstall itself if it was removed from the OS. It was a big thing.
Although I believe that was just for Windows. But the functionality exists for them to do it to Linux if they decide to.
Multiple (most?) motherboard manufacturers have options to install drivers and software from the BIOS. So you don’t have to go download it elsewhere just to get your system up and running.
That setting can be turned off. In fact they usually turn themselves off after the first boot because otherwise it would prompt every time.
But, you’re referencing Lenovo, a full system integrator, not a separate hardware company. Of course the system integrators bundle shit, that’s not new at all. They’ve done that for decades.
This wasn’t just software preinstalled on Windows. It was a rootkit that ran before the OS loaded to overwrite Windows files. It couldn’t be removed until Lenovo released software to kill it.
Even if you did a clean install, it would reinstall crap loaded with vulnerabilities.
Which functionality is that?