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"Install this patch, and your servers will start regularly crashing."

Let's say it like it is.



Absolutely! They phrased it in such a way that it sounds as if it is normal that computers just randomly reboot and as if the firmware upgrade simply increases that frequency.

Random reboots should really never happen and the fact that Intel is trying to imply otherwise is deeply worrying.

We all know that things go wrong. The problem is rarely that mistakes are made, but rather that people aren't open about them and don't simply provide concise technical analyses.




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