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WebGPU Lands in Firefox 141 on Windows, Eyes Linux and macOS Next (linuxiac.com)
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[–] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 days ago

It's not direct hardware access. It is pretty restricted in what it can do compared to Vulkan, for example, and what you can is checked by either the shader compiler or the api implementation itself at runtime to make sure the program is not doing something nefarious.