Intel’s unusual advisory yesterday urging its customers and partners to refrain from applying some of its firmware patches for the so-called Meltdown and Spectre flaws in its microprocessors illustrated just how pressured patching can backfire. Navin Shenoy, executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center in a post called for customers and OEMs to halt installation of patches for its Broadwell and Haswell microprocessors after widespread reports of spontaneous rebooting of systems affixed with the new patches.

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