Link posts 8 Feb 2026
• Waymo is Having a Hard Time Stopping For School Buses (tech.slashdot.org) Waymo’s self-driving robotaxis have faced at least 24 safety violations involving school buses in Austin since 2025, with the company’s voluntary software update failing to fix the problem.
• Post-Brexit sales of British farm products to EU fall by 37% (theguardian.com) British farm product exports to the EU have fallen by 37% in the 5 years since Brexit in 2021. Rebuilding demand for British products in Europe will take time. IMHO it was needless economic suicide driven by popularism and bankrolled by external forces.
• Claude Code is the Inflection Point (developers.slashdot.org) Anthropic’s Claude Code, a terminal-native AI coding agent, now authors about 4% of all public commits on GitHub. SemiAnalysis projects this figure will exceed 20% by 2026.
• 3 ways to fix Australia’s affordability crisis (firstlinks.com.au) There are no easy fixes but we need to look at options. This outlines three ways to address Australia’s affordability crisis: increasing housing supply, reforming planning laws, and improving public transport.