“- An issue that, in extremely rare cases, resulted in noticeable black dots in images captured with Long exp. NR in the shooting menu set to On has been resolved.”
The good news is the manufacturer has released firmware 2.01 (D3), and v.101 (D700) to resolve the ill-artifact. That, along with a number of rare bugs, and minor improvements to camera behavior have been posted at Nikon site with links to releases noted below.
Firmware v1.01 for D700
An issue that, in extremely rare cases, resulted in noticeable black dots in images captured with Long exp. NR in the shooting menu set to On has been resolved.