Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely ...

Modernizing the SSA’s technical infrastructure is not a novel idea – and such modernizations have a poor track record.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) embarks on an ambitious plan to overhaul the Social Security Administration's ...

Wired reports that one of DOGE’s many government initiatives is an attempt to rewrite the Social Security Administration ...

The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, reportedly plans to rewrite the software that the U.S. Social Security ...

Everything from the code that issues Social Security numbers to the payment schedules are written in COBOL, which was created in the 1950s, but the DOGE team seems to believe it can make a snap ...

DOGE wants to replace an old programming language at the social security fund in the shortest possible time. Experts are ...

The new compiler is called gCobol and it's a true native compiler: in other words, it takes COBOL source code and emits binary executables. You shouldn't confuse it with another GNU project ...

COBOL, a 50-year-old programming language, is used by many government agencies, including the OMV, for processing data. Following the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles' outage on March 20 ...

Other tools that promise to convert COBOL apps to Java syntax can make code that’s difficult to maintain and unrecognizable to Java developers, according to IBM. And currently available AI ...

Some developers say Cobol is not dead and that they have recently got a job. These people have probably been programming in Cobol for a lifetime, so everyone is competing with these guys for a ...