Microsoft's Super Duper Secure Mode is ready for testing, but Google has an alternative approach to JIT vulnerabilities in the V8 engine. Google and Microsoft, which now both contribute to the ...

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V8, the JavaScript engine featured in Google’s Chrome browser, is getting improvements in performance and code optimization courtesy of both the V8 team and the Russia Academy of Sciences. For its ...

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‘Super-fast’ non-optimizing Sparkplug compiler, which compiles bytecode to machine code, makes its debut in V8 9.1 and Chrome 91. With the Sparkplug compiler, Google is looking to improve JavaScript ...

A new project hopes to beef up the security of V8, a part of the Chrome browser that most users aren’t aware of but that hackers increasingly see as a juicy target. Chrome has over two billion users, ...

The latest release of V8, Google's open source JavaScript engine, will reduce heap size by 40 percent by using pointer compression when it is released alongside Chrome 80 stable in a few weeks. V8 is ...

The latest releases of Cursor and Windsurf integrated development environments are vulnerable to more than 94 known and patched security issues in the Chromium browser and the V8 JavaScript engine. An ...

Google has released a new security update for the Chrome browser, addressing a total of 12 vulnerabilities. Among these is a high-severity zero-day flaw that is currently being exploited in real-world ...

BlueMoon chains Chrome V8 flaws with a Windows kernel exploit to deploy GemStone, ShadowPad, and Rust-based malware in ...

Google confirmed Thursday that attackers were already exploiting a type confusion flaw in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine before a patch existed, marking the sixth zero-day of 2026 — and the third to ...