Is this fear-mongering ?

Has someone been manufacturing news again? This reports on a discussion between a couple of 'experts' who are talking about how something might destroy your computer's BIOS data, and thereby render your computer useless.

I have some news for those 'experts'. I accidentally destroyed the BIOS data on this computer that I'm writing this on, and I was able to use a bootable flash drive with a copy of the required BIOS information on it to 'flash' (update) its BIOS, and restore all that to its normal and healthy condition. I am not a computer technician, but simply a self-taught computer user, and if I can find out how to do this, then so can anyone else, assuming of course that not all computers get shut down at the same time.

So getting back to my opening here, is someone manufacturing this news, or are they just trying to scare the shit out of you? Either way, you shouldn't panic, because all is not yet lost. Do a little homework on how to update your BIOS and find out if in fact your own computer still uses it. There are newer systems that don't depend on having a BIOS, and yours might be one of them. And it has nothing to do with the operating system you are using, such as Windows, or Mac. It's all about the computer's motherboard and how that's been designed and built, and how it needs to be powered up for use. Google 'BIOS Update' and do some reading about it. And don't believe everything you see in the news. Some of it is a 'make-work' project, and some of it is pure unadulterated BS.