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Dear Mystery Algorithm That Hogged Global Financial Trading Last Week: What Do You Want?
• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay DillowThat’s scary. No one knows where the program came from, what it’s really doing, or why it failed to actually execute a single trade--though there are plenty of theories. None of which is comforting. Scarier still: This kind of thing most certainly happens more often than we realize, and it happens without any kind of oversight.