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Sixteen AI Agents Built a C Compiler From Scratch

Yesterday at 22:00 PM, via Slashdot

Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini set 16 instances of Claude Opus 4.6 loose on a shared codebase over two weeks to build a C compiler from scratch, and the AI agents produced a 100,000-line Rust-based compiler capable of building a bootable Linux 6.9 kernel on x86, ARM and RISC-V architectures. The project ran through nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions and cost about $20,000 in API fees....

Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax rise

Yesterday at 21:49 PM, via The Guardian

Cap-busting tax hike will be embarrassing for the party, which has made low council tax a priority

Reform-led Worcestershire county council is likely to issue England’s largest council tax rise this April after it was given special permission by the government to increase it by up to 9%.

Worcestershire is one of a handful of authorities whose requests to be allowed to increase local rates above...

POLICE AD HOC COMMITTEE: ‘ False testimony’ — General Khomotso Phahlane’s tall story about journalist Marianne Thamm

Yesterday at 21:15 PM, via Daily Maverick

On 14 January 2026, before the Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate Allegations made by Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, former acting police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane testified that Daily Maverick journalist Marianne Thamm had once attended a braai at Paul O’Sullivan’s house – the implied purpose of the gathering was, allegedly, to orchestrate a smear campaign. Daily Maverick’s...

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