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Framework's upgraded Laptop 16 delivers unprecedented customization with AMD Ryzen AI 300 series CPUs and multi-vendor GPU options, challenging disposable tech culture. While battery life and build consistency present tradeoffs, its DIY ethos offers developers and Linux enthusiasts a future-proof, repairable workstation.

Nearly 200,000 Framework laptops and desktops shipped with a dangerous UEFI shell command that allows attackers to disable Secure Boot protections. The 'mm' memory modification tool—meant for diagnostics—can be exploited to load persistent bootkits like BlackLotus. Framework has released firmware patches for most models, but unpatched systems remain vulnerable to OS-level security bypasses.

Framework, the modular laptop pioneer celebrated for its right-to-repair advocacy, faces severe community backlash over its aggressive promotion of Omarchy Linux—a project tied to controversial figure DHH. The crisis has triggered a volunteer moderator exodus and forced a reckoning about the ethics of platforming figures with extremist views in open-source ecosystems.