A story on Slashdot says that Intel has embedded DRM support in their new chips. This is really bad news. If you want more information on the issue, you can read Cory responds to Wired Editor on DRM on Boing Boing, or the EPIC DRM pages (which have lots of links with very useful information).
As Miguel de Icaza said: It's not about what you can do today, its about they will allow you to do tomorrow (sic).