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The bug has existed since speculative execution was introduced, 17 years ago. A 3-year gap between world-breaking bugs isn't that exceptional (I hope!).
by freeone3000 9y ago
The bug has existed since speculative execution was introduced, 17 years ago. A 3-year gap between world-breaking bugs isn't that exceptional (I hope!).
- criddell 9y agoEven so, that's pretty good. Large software companies have disaster scale bugs many times every year.
- maxhallinan 9y agoCan you provide examples of the companies and bugs you're referring to?
- bilkoo 9y agoI doubt we can even find a contemporary software company with that kind of market share to begin with, let alone the severity of bugs. Windows in the 90s perhaps?
- mrkeen 9y agoBuggy is the resting state of software. Just tracking bugs is a billion dollar industry (Atlassian, etc.) Personally? Tonight my Firefox was rendering all images as black until I rebooted. When I press the 'stop' button after watching something on the HBO app, it doesn't stop. https://www.reddit.com/r/softwaregore/ https://www.reddit.com/r/softwaregore/ These aren't hypothetical vulnerabilities that a skilled attacker could discover after years of searching (as is the case with these CPU bugs) - they're right there on the surface.
- maxhallinan 9y agoI guess we understand "disaster scale" differently.
- megablast 9y agoHow many times did you have to press stop to get access to the hbo’s servers?
- decebalus1 9y agoApple
- tinymollusk 9y agoI know you're using hyperbole for effect, but I have to (lightly) poke fun at you for called something that happened 14 years ago as "world-breaking" ;).