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 has pushed out an emergency update for Chrome after confirming that hackers were already exploiting a previously unknown flaw in the browser’s core engine. It marks the seventh time this year ...

Chrome zero-day CVE-2026-85046 is under active attack as the sixth actively exploited Chrome vulnerability of 2026. A type confusion flaw in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine lets attackers run code ...