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For me the flickering and staggered brightness transitions came back after a few days, a reboot gets rid of it for a bit. I am noticing high CPU, GPU and memory use in Windowserver as reported elsewhere.
It's still happening for me every once in a while -- maybe four or five days since the last occurrence.
 
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