InfoWorld

What’s new in Google’s V8 JavaScript engine Version 7

The beta V8 Version 7.4 is now available, with the potential to expand the engine’s footprint to platforms such as Apple iOS. V8 is Google’s open source JavaScript and WebAssembly engine for the ...
GCN

Google fixes Chrome zero-day CVE-2025-10585

Google has released emergency security patches to address CVE-2025-10585, a high-severity zero-day bug in the V8 JavaScript engine of Chrome that has been actively exploited, the sixth Chrome zero-day ...
ZDNet

Securing Microsoft Edge: Switch off JIT compilers or sandbox?

Google and Microsoft, which now both contribute to the Chromium project, apparently share concerns about the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Microsoft's Edge ...
ZDNet

Bugs in Chrome's JavaScript engine can lead to powerful exploits. This project aims to stop them

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, ...
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Why Is Randomness So Hard in JavaScript?

So it turns out the random number generator long used by developers working with Google's V8 JavaScript engine doesn't really generate random numbers at all. That's being fixed in the latest release ...