Google Big Sleep Catches Sneaky Bug in Chrome: Update Now or Face the Wrath of CVE-2025-9478!

Google’s AI tool, Big Sleep, caught a snoozer of a bug in Chrome’s graphics library, CVE-2025-9478. This use-after-free issue could let hackers play peekaboo with your data. Update to Chrome version 139.0.7258.154/.155 now, so your browser can rest easy—and you can, too!

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Google Big Sleep is catching bugs while the rest of us are still trying to figure out why our plants keep dying. Who knew AI would not only dream but also wake up to sniff out vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser? Time to sleep with one eye open, hackers—Google’s got an AI watchdog on the loose!

Key Points:

  • Google has patched a critical vulnerability in the Chrome browser’s graphics library, ANGLE.
  • The flaw, CVE-2025-9478, was detected by Google’s AI tool, Big Sleep.
  • This use-after-free issue could allow attackers to execute malicious code.
  • No exploitation of the vulnerability has been reported in the wild.
  • Chrome users are advised to update to version 139.0.7258.154/.155 immediately.

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