Operate the gas tank? What new feature did they add that requires a container of liquid to be networked?

I think he sould have included Chromite. Regularly updated and a fork of the abandoned Bromite, which was a privacy-centric project. I still use Firefox, but also use Chromite.

This gave me a chill, as it is reminiscent of a scene in the 1970 movie “Colossus: The Forbin Project”

“This is the voice of World Control”.

Perhaps he heard the same thing I did - Bethesda announced a soon to be released refresh of the game.