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 is rolling out a major Chrome update for desktop that fixes 230 security vulnerabilities, including one that attackers are already exploiting in the wild. The update moves Chrome to version 153 ...

‘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 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 ...