Theo on tech · June 16th

Storyflo Tech — The Daily Tech Brief · Jun 16, 2026 · 11m

From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief for June 16th. Theo here. June 16th, tech desk. Five stories from the last twenty-four hours — here's where I'd start. Let's get into it. First, from Ars Technica. Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs. What’s odd is that AMD quietly pulled the Transparent Secure Memory Encryption feature from its consumer Ryzen line, something they’d been adding for years to guard against cold‑boot attacks. The change shows up only on Windows as a silent drop, while on Linux you have to hunt through kernel logs to see the flag…