The past few years there’s been the me_cleaner software for disabling and stripping parts of Intel’s Management Engine for soft-disabling the notorious bit on modern Intel boards. ME_Cleaner has been making much progress and now there is work pending for being able to disable the newer Management Engine 12 found on more recent Intel motherboards…

Source: Phoronix – It’s Becoming Possible To Soft-Disable Intel ME 12 On Newer Motherboards