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A detailed technical article explaining how modern web browsers work, focusing on Chromium's architecture including networking, parsing, rendering, and security features.
Browser Use launches a new browser infrastructure service featuring subsecond cold starts, lower cost at $0.02/h, and unlimited scaling, now live for developers.
A security exploit in Chromium, thought to have been fixed four years ago, was found to actually remain unfixed, highlighting a significant oversight in the browser's security patching process.
Google published exploit code for an unfixed Chromium vulnerability that can turn browsers into a limited botnet, affecting Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium-based browsers. The vulnerability remains unpatched after 29 months.
An interview with Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia about her work on Chromium and enterprise browsers, covering rebasing challenges and branding customization.
CloakBrowser is an open-source browser project directly modified from Chromium C++ source code, bypassing anti-bot measures like Cloudflare by changing 57 fingerprinting details at compile time.
OpenAI details the engineering behind ChatGPT Atlas, a new AI-powered browser built on a custom architecture called OWL (OpenAI's Web Layer), which runs Chromium as an isolated service outside the main app process to enable fast startup, scalability, and agentic capabilities.
AI browsers like OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet embed AI assistants directly into browsing with memory and agentic capabilities, but significant security risks from prompt injection attacks make them unsuitable for sensitive use.
CloakBrowser is an open-source stealth Chromium browser that passes bot detection tests through 49 C++ source-level patches, offering drop-in replacements for Playwright and Puppeteer in Python and JavaScript.