Apple patches two zero-day flaws used in targeted attacks

Apple has released emergency security updates to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities that attackers actively exploited in highly ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN

Apple, Google rush to patch WebKit zero‑days in spyware attacks

Even advanced hardware-based protections can be rendered ineffective in the face of a sophisticated attacker,” wrote Boris Larin of Kaspersky’s GReAT Team; a message all too relevant to Apple’s recent ...
PC World

Linux distros aren’t updating WebKit, making web browsers and email clients vulnerable

The WebKit rendering engine used in many Linux applications is a complete security mess. That’s the takeaway from a blog post by Michael Catanzaro, who works on GNOME’s WebKitGTK+ project. He’s ...
Wired

Google Chrome Breaks Up With Apple's WebKit

Google's Chrome web browser was built on WebKit, an open source rendering engine developed by Apple that also underpins many other browsers, including Safari and Opera. But on Wednesday, Google told ...
TechCrunch

WebKit’s new anti-tracking policy puts privacy on a par with security

WebKit, the open source engine that underpins Internet browsers including Apple’s Safari browser, has announced a new tracking prevention policy that takes the strictest line yet on the background and ...
CNET

Google parts ways with Apple over WebKit, launches Blink

Both Chrome and Safari will move faster when uncoupled from each other, Google argues. But it's not just about technology: Social issues also factored into the schism. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...
ZDNet

Blink! Google forks WebKit

While some people may have been surprised that Google has finally made Blink, its own fork of the popular WebKit Web browser engine, in Web developer circles this move came as no surprise. As Adam ...

Apple Upgrade Warning—Hundreds Of Millions Of iPhone Users Must Act Now

The last available analyst data says hundreds of millions of iPhone users with devices eligible for Apple’s current iOS 26 ...
Ars Technica

Google going its own way, forking WebKit rendering engine

Google announced today that it is forking the WebKit rendering engine on which its Chrome browser is based. The company is naming its new engine “Blink.” The WebKit project was started by Apple in ...
ZDNet

The real reason why Google forked WebKit

Yesterday came the surprise news that Google was going to kick Apple's WebKit rendering engine to the curb and replace it with a new open source rendering engine called Blink, based on WebKit.
Ars Technica

The unforking of KDE’s KHTML and Webkit

There is one major web rendering engine that grew entirely out of the open source world: KHTML is KDE's web renderer which was built from the ground up by the open source community with very little ...