That Starship Has Sailed

Safari has one major advantage over Chrome, Hugging Face fends off a cyberattack by a rogue language model, and OpenAI will reportedly ship a ChatGPT device replete with speaker, microphone, and camera.

🔗 Links

• Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” is set today (2026-08-04)
  • There Will Come Soft Rains (PDF)
  • Timeline of Fictional Future Events
  • Neonomicon by Alan Moore
• Chrome’s glaring lack of window/tab session isolation
  • Safari’s support for web platform features is… not great
  • Chrome is bad
  • Google settled a class-action lawsuit for $5 billion in which it was accused of collecting user data in Chrome’s incognito mode
  • Helium web browser
  • Request for session/storage/cookie isolation in Chromium in… 2013
  • StopTheScript
  • Scorched Earth, video game classic
• Language model breaks out of sandbox and breaks into Hugging Face
  • OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
  • Security incident disclosure — July 2026
  • Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
  • OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
• OpenAI’s New Device Will Be Hockey Puck-Sized and Cost Over $300