Waitman Gobble

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:33:35 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

So someone started playing Janet Jackson on their XP computer and it started a chain reaction of crashed hard drives. Apparently she has a popular hit song that has frequencies that thrash 5400 rpm hard drives...

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/what-or-who-cut-the-power-to-spain-and-portugal/amp/

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:35:43 -0400 from Get Ready To Rumbly

Janet Jackson song from 1989 declared a cybersecurity vulnerability for crashing hard drives

As reported by The Reg, the strange tale comes from a Microsoft devblog by Raymond Chen. He writes that a colleague shared a story from Windows XP...

Janet Jackson song from 1989 declared a cybersecurity vulnerability for crashing hard drives

As reported by The Reg, the strange tale comes from a Microsoft devblog by Raymond Chen. He writes that a colleague shared a story from Windows XP...

Giac El Vecio

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:11:00 -0400 from Unio Diversi Spiritus

Yes, it's that.
You know that story about running your wet finger over the edge of a glass cup and a sound starts to come out?
You can try to reproduce the exact same sound with your voice, but be careful, you better wear a pair of safety glasses, because there is a risk that your glass cup could explode.