diff --git a/src/backend/drivers/ai-tts/providers/gemini/GeminiTTSProvider.test.ts b/src/backend/drivers/ai-tts/providers/gemini/GeminiTTSProvider.test.ts
index c3c6857e8..395104730 100644
--- a/src/backend/drivers/ai-tts/providers/gemini/GeminiTTSProvider.test.ts
+++ b/src/backend/drivers/ai-tts/providers/gemini/GeminiTTSProvider.test.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
  */
 
 import { Readable } from 'node:stream';
+import v8 from 'node:v8';
 import {
     afterAll,
     afterEach,
@@ -660,6 +661,28 @@ describe('GeminiTTSProvider.synthesize audio output', () => {
         expect(wav.subarray(44)).toEqual(pcm);
     });
 
+    // V8 stops optimizing regexps once a process holds enough compiled code,
+    // as long-running servers do.
+    it('streams audio over 4 MB of base64 with regexp optimization off', async () => {
+        const pcm = Buffer.alloc(4 * 1024 * 1024, 7);
+        replyWith(
+            interaction({ content: [audioBlock(pcm, 'audio/L16;rate=24000')] }),
+        );
+
+        v8.setFlagsFromString('--no-regexp-optimization');
+        let wav: Buffer;
+        try {
+            const result = (await withTestActor(() =>
+                makeProvider().synthesize({ text: 'hi' }),
+            )) as { stream: Readable };
+            wav = await readAll(result.stream);
+        } finally {
+            v8.setFlagsFromString('--regexp-optimization');
+        }
+        expect(wav.length).toBe(44 + pcm.length);
+        expect(wav.subarray(44).equals(pcm)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
     it('wraps PCM without a declared rate at 24 kHz', async () => {
         replyWith(
             interaction({
diff --git a/src/backend/drivers/ai-tts/providers/gemini/GeminiTTSProvider.ts b/src/backend/drivers/ai-tts/providers/gemini/GeminiTTSProvider.ts
index 1d7295847..c4541aaa0 100644
--- a/src/backend/drivers/ai-tts/providers/gemini/GeminiTTSProvider.ts
+++ b/src/backend/drivers/ai-tts/providers/gemini/GeminiTTSProvider.ts
@@ -154,7 +154,17 @@ interface Interaction {
 
 const WAV_MIME_TYPES = new Set(['audio/wav', 'audio/x-wav', 'audio/wave']);
 const PCM_MIME_TYPES = new Set(['audio/l16', 'audio/pcm']);
-const BASE64_PATTERN = /^[A-Za-z0-9+/_-]+={0,2}$/;
+// Find a bad character instead of matching `^[...]+$`: when V8 compiles a
+// regexp unoptimized, the anchored loop backtracks per character and overflows
+// its stack on audio over ~4 MB.
+const NON_BASE64_CHAR = /[^A-Za-z0-9+/_-]/;
+
+const isBase64 = (data: string): boolean => {
+    let end = data.length;
+    if (data.endsWith('==')) end -= 2;
+    else if (data.endsWith('=')) end -= 1;
+    return end > 0 && !NON_BASE64_CHAR.test(data.slice(0, end));
+};
 
 const SPLIT_TEXT_HINT = 'Split the text into shorter requests.';
 
@@ -526,7 +536,7 @@ export class GeminiTTSProvider implements ITTSProvider {
         const { data, mime_type: mimeType } = audio;
         if (
             typeof data !== 'string' ||
-            !BASE64_PATTERN.test(data) ||
+            !isBase64(data) ||
             typeof mimeType !== 'string'
         ) {
             throw upstreamFailure('Gemini TTS returned invalid audio data');
diff --git a/src/backend/util/appIcon.test.ts b/src/backend/util/appIcon.test.ts
index 86715c5c4..aa9b87797 100644
Binary files a/src/backend/util/appIcon.test.ts and b/src/backend/util/appIcon.test.ts differ
diff --git a/src/backend/util/appIcon.ts b/src/backend/util/appIcon.ts
index 1b288db7f..4af68fa60 100644
--- a/src/backend/util/appIcon.ts
+++ b/src/backend/util/appIcon.ts
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ export interface AppIconHostConfig extends TrustedIconHostConfig {
     pub_port?: number;
 }
 
-const RAW_BASE64_REGEX = /^[A-Za-z0-9+/]+={0,2}$/;
 // `data:<type>/<subtype>[;param[=value]]…,<payload>`. The parameter list is
 // matched as a group of its own so it can be checked exhaustively — the
 // previous prefix-scan only looked at the bytes before the first `;` or `,`
@@ -185,7 +184,6 @@ function sniffRawBase64Image(
     if (typeof value !== 'string') return null;
     const trimmed = value.trim();
     if (trimmed.length < 16) return null;
-    if (!RAW_BASE64_REGEX.test(trimmed)) return null;
     const bytes = decodeStrictBase64(trimmed);
     if (!bytes) return null;
     const mime = sniffImageMime(bytes);