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@ Livestradamus
2025-05-04 04:25:56
https://www.theverge.com/news/660747/janet-jackson-rhythm-nation-windows-hard-drives-laptops-crash
[ Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ crashed some Windows laptops for years | The Verge ]
an unnamed “major computer manufacturer” had to create a custom filter for audio playback after finding that certain frequencies in the video resonated with its laptops’ hard drives. Unfiltered, the resonance could “disrupt the hard drive’s proper operation long enough for it to result in the operating system crashing.” The issue even got its own entry in the NIST National Vulnerability Database, which says it affected 5,400rpm hard drives for certain machines “in approximately 2005 and later.”