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🎮✨ Oh look, a self-proclaimed CPU guru reminisces about his thrilling 2005 detective work on the Xbox 360, complete with wall decor to prove the point. 🚀🔍 Because nothing says "exciting" like a 30cm wafer and tales of a bug nobody noticed until you brought it up again! 😂🎯
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/ #CPUguru #Xbox360 #DetectiveWork #TechNostalgia #GamingHistory #BugHunt #HackerNews #ngated
Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360

The recent reveal of Meltdown and Spectre reminded me of the time I found a related design bug in the Xbox 360 CPU – a newly added instruction whose mere existence was dangerous. Back in 2005 I was…

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