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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google has updated the Chrome browser to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the V8 engine and 11 other vulnerabilities. The exploited security issue, identified as ...