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Lenovo at CES announced new ThinkPads with AMD's Ryzen chips, and the laptops will ship without Pluton turned on. "Pluton will be disabled by default on 2022 Lenovo ThinkPad platforms. Specifically the Z13, Z16, T14, T16, T14s, P16s and X13 using AMD 6000-series processors. Customers will have the ability to enable Pluton themselves," a Lenovo spokesperson told The Register.

The notebook maker is warning users of three separate vulnerabilities.

Major side-channel exploits demonstrated the feasibility of programs extracting data from a program in an adjacent thread in the same core. Here's how and why to protect your ThinkPad.

In the wake of Spectre and Meltdown, some organizations are diversifying their technology buys. Lenovo's new Ryzen-powered ThinkPads bring choice to business notebooks.

Lenovo issued a security bulletin Friday warning customers of two previously disclosed critical Broadcom vulnerabilities impacts 25 models of its popular ThinkPad laptops.

Lenovo said nearly a dozen ThinkPad and ThinkCentre laptops contain a hardcoded password flaw.