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 ...

Next time you laugh at musty old tech, remember that new technologies are often built on it. By Shira Ovide Caitlin Mooney is 24 years old and infatuated with technology that dates to the age of ...

Let me tell you about a hot Web scripting language. It’s been ported to almost every computer architecture ever made; its speed and readability are legendary. It’s known to be good with databases.

COBOL is a computer language used for business data processing and IBM is a leader in that area.

Shares of IBM plunged 13.2% Monday, marking their steepest single-day drop in over 25 years, after AI startup Anthropic said its Claude Code tool can modernise COBOL, the legacy programming language ...

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, ...