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Submission + - The Browser Is All You Need (linkedin.com)

Submitted by nathan_w_cheng on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @07:18PM

nathan_w_cheng writes: The browser started as a document viewer and accidentally became a sandboxed virtual machine with its own filesystem, GPU, threading model, and near-native compute via WebAssembly. As AI assistants gain system access and security incidents pile up, the browser sandbox may be the structural answer to giving AI real capability without real danger. Every device on earth already has one installed.

Comment Insurance implications? (Score 5, Informative) 74

by nathan_w_cheng on Sunday April 20, 2008 @02:14PM (#23135542) Attached to: Google Invests In Genetic Indexing

I recently attended a legal studies lecture in which the professor (a lawyer) asserted that if any of us were to participate in such a program and any disease or predisposition for disease were discovered, that we would be legally obligated to make this known to any potential medical insurers the next time we apply for medical insurance. According to this lawyer, failure to disclose in this manner would result in annulment of the insurance should the failure be discovered.

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