OpenAI thinks it may have a solution. On October 19th, the company touted “substantial improvements” in its latest AI models’ ...

The age-old code that binds our world faces a challenge from AI, but for now, it remains unbroken.

Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this notion. After all, ...

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When asking AI to write code, it works well with Python or JavaScript, but it can suddenly become unreliable with older or ...

On October 19, 2026, an announcement posted by OpenAI on X caught my eye. It stated that the latest AI models are now capable ...

A report suggests the use of one of the oldest programming languages could be a lot bigger than previously estimated. New research on the global scale of the COBOL programming language suggests that ...

COBOL is not a language often mentioned as a leading programming development one, at least not in 2023. That wasn't always the case. COBOL, which debuted in 1959, was a leading language in the ...

COBOL may be decades old, but it still powers critical financial infrastructure and 95% of ATM transactions, according to IBM. Now, as the engineers who maintain these systems age out and fewer young ...

The Social Security Administration is facing a potential overhaul of its computer systems, one that could disrupt the benefits of millions of Americans who rely on these payments. The Department of ...

While modern programming languages like Java and .NET are widely used, COBOL is still very much alive and -- for some businesses -- here to stay. Similar to other old, imperative languages like ...