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https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/18/janet_jackson_video_crashes_laptops/

Further investigation revealed that multiple manufacturers’ machines also crashed. Sometimes playing the video on one laptop would crash another nearby laptop. This is mysterious because the song isn’t actually that bad.

Investigation revealed that all the crashing laptops shared the same 5400 RPM hard disk drive.

“It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 RPM laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used,” Chen wrote.

The manufacturer that found the problem apparently added a custom filter in the audio pipeline to detect and remove the offending frequencies during audio playback.