WEDNESDAY, 11 FEBRUARY 2026, 03:21
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....
Bongani Ntanzi says investigators were not specific on the date the soccer captain was killed
American great Serena Williams is eligible to return to competition on 22 February when she will have completed the reinstatement process.
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...
Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat fail to guarantee Team GB’s first medal of the 2026 Winter Olympics, as Sweden advance to the final.
The state witness known as Mr X concedes errors in evidence on Brian Wainstein murder.
ROME, Feb 9 (Reuters) – An anarchist group claimed responsibility on Monday for sabotaging rail infrastructure in northern Italy on Saturday and disrupting train traffic on the first full day of the Winter Olympic Games.
The DA is the third largest party in the North West.
South Africa, 213-4 (Aiden Markram 59, Lungi Ngidi 4-31), beat Canada, 156-8 (Navneet Dhaliwal 64, Ansh Patel 3-31), by 57 runs.
Holders Hull KR will visit Huddersfield Giants in the fourth round of the Challenge Cup, while Wakefield Trinity host Leeds Rhinos in a West Yorkshire derby.
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...
The romance genre — long the publishing industry’s earliest adopter of technological shifts, from e-books to self-publishing to serial releases — has become the front line for AI-generated fiction, and the results as you can imagine are messy. Coral Hart, a Cape Town-based novelist previously published by Harlequin and Mills & Boon, produced more than 200 AI-assisted romance novels last year...
O’Sullivan initially insisted on appearing virtually citing a fear of his life.
Ben Gunnery has been handed a 12-month suspended jail sentence at Bromley Magistrates Court today.
The Epson ET-2980 is a great value at its full price, and the discount sweetens the deal.
Disgraced former acting National Commissioner, Khomotso Phahlane, lost his Labour Appeal Court bid against his unfair dismissal in the same week that the Madlanga Commission heard of his alleged links to cartel boss Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala.