On the bright side: There are worse things than a processor lockup (which is easy to spot when it happens). And the other bug was in the newest architecture (

On the bright side: There are worse things than a processor lockup (which is easy to spot when it happens). And the other bug was in the newest architecture (Skylake) and did not affect Xeons. Arguably the memory Row Hammer exploit was far worse, and is a sign of how bad things can get outside the CPU.