Google Explains Googlebot Byte Limits And Crawling Architecture

Google's Gary Illyes published a blog post explaining how Googlebot works as one client of a centralized crawling platform, ...

Women’s Final Four a repeat of last season, headlined by undefeated reigning national champion UConn

The women’s Final Four is on repeat. No. 1 seeds UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina are in the Final Four for the second ...

World’s tallest basketball player, 7-foot-9 Olivier Rioux, is transferring from Florida

The world’s tallest college basketball player is on the move. Florida’s Olivier Rioux, a 7-foot-9 center from Canada and the ...

Catching up with Omaha's first baby of 1979

We caught up with Omaha’s first baby, 40 years after she made headlines in 1979, to find out what it’s like to grow up a New ...

The countries that have social media bans, or are planning to implement one

It's been four months since Australia banned under-16s from using social media, and ever since, a growing number of countries ...
Security Boulevard

Fuzzing to Zero-Day: Pwning V8CTF With TurboFan Type Confusion, CVE-2025-2135

The bug was assigned CVE-2025-2135, and we successfully used it to pwn Google’s V8CTF as a zero-day. The root cause lies in TurboFan’s InferMapsUnsafe() function, which fails to handle aliasing when ...

Google: Pages Are Getting Larger & It Still Matters

Google's Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt discuss page weight growth, the 15MB crawl limit, and whether structured data is ...