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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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