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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

For the third time in recent months, Google has found itself scrambling to fix a potentially serious zero-day flaw in the Chrome browser’s V8 JavaScript engine. Addressed on Monday as part of 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 ...

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 ...