A recent blog post from Anthropic, a large AI company in the U.S., signals that the tech can help governments "modernize" ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Leahey is an attorney and law professor that covers tax. AUSTIN, TX - JUNE 10: A computer running COBOL 73, an antiquated ...

AI startup Anthropic's claim of automating COBOL modernization sent IBM's stock plummeting, wiping billions off its market value. The decades-old language, still powering critical systems, faces a ...

We list the best COBOL online courses, to make it simple and easy to learn the legacy COBOL programming language online. Although old, it still remains essential for many systems used by governments ...

You’d think a computer programming language created in 1959 would be outdated — but you’d be incredibly wrong. Most people know Java and C++, but good ol’ COBOL is still alive and kicking. In the US, ...

Have you ever wanted to just cut and paste some of that legacy COBOL code from mainframe applications into your latest Web application? No? Well, Romanian Web developer Bizău Ionică has developed a ...

The IRS manages IT systems running hundreds of thousands of lines of code written in a programming language few developers bother to learn anymore: COBOL. In response to unspecified “national security ...

Investors wiped $40 billion from IBM's market cap after Anthropic released COBOL translation tools. Analysts say the market ...

Six years after Computerworld first surveyed its readers about their use of Cobol, the installed code base for the 50-year old language hasn’t changed much. But the impending talent crisis appears to ...

Discussions of Social Security Administration (SSA) fraud from Elon Musk have prompted criticism over the federal government's use of COBOL, a software system that critics consider outdated. Musk ...

The COBOL programming language was created in 1959 and has been widely seen as obsolete for decades. Yet there are still a fair number of software systems based on the language. The economic stresses ...