Author: Hunter

There are many recipes for the fermented Korean staple—typically made with cabbage, chili powder, and aromatics—but all of them put salt at the center. Read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 77, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, don’t forget to make your Venmo private, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about RISC and Ben Affleck and Google’s… Read more

CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar has signed deals for the site’s vast trove of programming knowledge, started an agentic AI initiative, and even gotten the community to accept new business realities. Read more

Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to understand the implications. Read more

How do you embrace disruption while providing stability? Three business luminaries share insights about the delicate balance required for effective transformation. Read more

I’m filing my 2024 taxes with nine different documents across three states. I tested popular tax services to see which best helped me untangle my tax mess. Read more

A Tesla Cybertruck drives past protestors during a Tesla Takedown, a nationwide peaceful protest movement, at a Tesla Showroom in the Coral Gables neighborhood on Saturday, March 29, 2025 in Miami. | Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui / The Verge Thousands of anti-Tesla protesters took to the streets Saturday March 29th in opposition to Elon… Read more

Samaung’s new Bespoke AI Jet Ultra cordless stick vacuum has an AI cleaning mode that senses floor types and automatically adjusts suction power and brush speed. In our notification-heavy world, there is still one activity where you might just miss that buzz on your phone or ping on your smartwatch – while you’re vacuuming. Thankfully,… Read more

Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently emerged as a promising method for enhancing reasoning abilities in language models without direct supervision. This approach has shown notable success in mathematics and coding, where reasoning naturally aligns with structured problem-solving. While studies have demonstrated that RLVR alone can lead to self-evolved reasoning, research has largely… Read more

Large language models struggle to process and reason over lengthy, complex texts without losing essential context. Traditional models often suffer from context loss, inefficient handling of long-range dependencies, and difficulties aligning with human preferences, affecting the accuracy and efficiency of their responses. Tencent’s Hunyuan-T1 directly tackles these challenges by integrating a novel Mamba-powered architecture with… Read more