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, ...

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 pushing out an emergency patch for its Chrome browser on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Mac to protect against a zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in ...

Google's research team has launched v8CTF, a capture-the-flag (CTF) challenge focused on its Chrome browser’s V8 JavaScript engine. The competition opened on October 6, 2023, and is accessible to any ...

Google has shipped a new JavaScript compiler for its V8 JavaScript engine in Chrome called Sparkplug that promises a much faster web experience – and it does it by 'cheating', according to the ...

TL;DR: Google is now shipping Chrome 91, which includes a major upgrade to the browser's JavaScript processing. According to Google, the V8 engine used to run about 78 years' worth of JavaScript every ...

Node has traditionally been focused on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, but adding ChakraCore support will allow developers to target more platforms Microsoft on Tuesday submitted a pull request to Node ...