If you've gotten cash from an ATM, you've interacted with a COBOL-based system. Here's why this old programming language will probably outlive us all.

Elon Musk's investigation of federal government systems highlighted Social Security's reliance on software developed in the ...

This week, another great milestone in the field of running Minecraft in unexpected ways has been met— this time, courtesy of the open-source CobolCraft project, we have a version of server ...

Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There’s a much simpler explanation.

Most of the erroneous payments were overpayments to living people. Part of the confusion comes from Social Security's ...

Developed in the 1950s, COBOL powers critical functions within the SSA, including processing retirement and disability claims. The administration maintains an impressive 60 million lines of COBOL ...

That could bring members of the organization face-to-face with something they’ve potentially never seen before: COBOL, or common business-oriented language. COBOL was developed in the 1950s by a ...

And while many people are looking to learn the latest computer languages, recent news of the shortage of coders who can use the vintage COBOL program ... one-off coding class to the more advanced ...

Elon [Roman Salute] Musk’s team of elite coding nerds bragged that they found ... however it turns out they didnn't know their COBOL. "There's crazy things, like, just a cursory examination ...