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Claude Desktop Unexpectedly Triggers Actions on a Separate, Unlinked Machine

A developer running Claude Desktop sessions independently on a Mac and a Windows machine found that finishing a task on the Mac caused a web app to launch on the unrelated Windows machine. The user was unaware of any cross-device or remote-session feature that would explain this behavior, raising concerns about undocumented cross-machine session linking.

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