Jesus Christ! My mac reopen the windows when it restarts. And it opens the Deathray again! I had to quit safari immediately I saw the dot below its icon. And it took me yet another restart to fix the weird problems in other apps.

Could be a useful way to force user-interaction-gated flows. A "your computer is infected, click this button in 10 seconds or it will crash" type button which, at this point, most modestly-knowledgeable users would know not to click. However, after seeing their computer actually crash when the countdown hits 0, perhaps they would be more inclined to click "allow" on whatever prompt follows when they see it again.

Of course, plenty of other uses. Disable your adblocker or we crash your computer. Watch the whole ad or we crash your computer. Click the follow button or we crash your computer.

Maybe I'm crazy, but "crash your computer" as a building block seems powerful enough to be a security issue. Is denial of service not a security thing anymore?

Amazing!

I encountered the same type of death freeze when trying (and failing) to run models in browser tabs, but didn't spend much time trying to understand how severe it is.

Hope they don't disable WebGPU...

It's at best denial of service. Except it's easily avoidable by never going back to that site again.

The funny thing is the page describing the problem stutters like crazy in firefox/mac while the rotating nuclear hazard wheel is displayed.

It freezes a Pixel 10 on Chrome, Webviews and Brave..!

I tried several webview-based browsers, Chrome, and Brave, with them the phone completely freezes (except that the audio keeps going for a bit).

I tested webview browsers because by chance the first place I ran it on was Telegram's internal browser (on which the phone does freeze).

It doesn't do anything on Firefox though, and weirdly enough not even on the Chromium-based Cromite (after enabling WebGL).

I only tried waiting for a few minutes, but it wasn't giving signs of life.

If someone wants to try, keep in mind that to force restart a Pixel you have to press the power button for 30 seconds (during which you might break out in a cold sweat).

Is this why Oregon Trail Deluxe freezes on Mac?

https://oregontrail.ws/games/the-oregon-trail-deluxe/play/

It kind of froze my Mac Studio M2 Ultra, but I was able to still move the mouse and force-quit Safari using Command+Q. Once I did, everything immediately went back to normal.

Does this reproduce with just the compute pass, or does WindowServer deadlock on the canvas drawable?

    while (true) console.log('this will freeze/crash dev tools') 

For more of a "I've been hacked!" effect, load infinite 3D models in Three.js that have millions of vertices each. You get those black boxes where the system has so low RAM it can't even draw the browser window.

Apple Silicon Macs have a lot of GPU problems. I find that after running any significant GPU workload, the entire operating system starts getting super slow until a reboot. Even if the entire process tree that ever touched the GPU has been completely terminated for days.