The 2026 Prefontaine Classic, the most prestigious annual international track and field meet held in the U.S., takes place ...

So: masochism. You might know that it takes its name from 19th-century Austrian nobleman and writer Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch—and specifically from the content of his famous work, Venus in Furs ...

Have you ever wondered what powers the banking systems behind your ATM transactions and credit card payments? Well, there is a good chance that a 66-year-old programming language called COBOL is doing ...

In this world, a programming language called 'COBOL,' born in 1959, still survives today. This is apparently referred to as the 'COBOL legacy.' While I do not have direct experience programming in ...

PwC will certify 30,000 US employees on Claude Code and plans to extend access across its 364,000-person global workforce. The alliance targets legacy system overhauls in banking, insurance, and ...

In the before times—before machines could hallucinate, before compute was a noun—it was not uncommon to go several weeks without someone telling me the world was about to end. Similarly, a whole ...

Enterprise AI programs rarely fail because of bad ideas. More often, they get stuck in ungoverned pilot mode and never reach production. At a recent VentureBeat event, technology leaders from ...

IBM shares dropped 13% on Feb. 23, on fears that Anthropic's Claude Code AI would accelerate COBOL modernization and undermine the mainframe business. AI can help translate legacy code, but it can't ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...