Pew Research Center

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...
SiliconANGLE

Rocket Software aims to future-proof Cobol with AI integration and cloud-ready enhancements

Information technology modernization specialist Rocket Software Inc. is integrating generative artificial intelligence and adding support for Arm processors in its line of Cobol modernization products ...
Wall Street Journal

How Morgan Stanley Tackled One of Coding’s Toughest Problems

Morgan Stanley is now aiming artificial intelligence at one of enterprise software’s biggest pain points, and one it said Big Tech hasn’t quite nailed yet: helping rewrite old, outdated code into ...
Hackaday

gcc-cobol

As the Common Business Oriented Language, COBOL has a long and storied history. To this day it’s quite literally the financial bedrock for banks, businesses and financial institutions, running largely ...
BizTech

How Financial Services Companies Can Maintain Mainframes as COBOL Experts Retire

COBOL — short for common business-oriented language — isn’t going anywhere. Released in 1960 and standardized in 1968, COBOL was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages to handle ...
Wired

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest ...
The Shreveport Times

What is COBOL, and why should it matter to Louisiana residents in wake of OMV outages?

The Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles is experiencing intermittent outages due to issues with its COBOL mainframe. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry declared a State of Emergency due to the outages, which ...
Yahoo

What is COBOL, and why should it matter to Louisiana residents in wake of OMV outages?

Following the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles' outage on March 20, Gov. Jeff Landry declared a State of Emergency Friday morning. In the executive order, Landry extended the expiration date and ...
TechSpot

Millions of "dead" Social Security recipients actually caused by a COBOL coding quirk

TL;DR: Rumors have been circulating about millions of deceased individuals allegedly receiving Social Security checks. However, this sensational claim is far from the truth. The real story is a ...
ZDNet

If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it?

Some people think tens of millions of dead people are collecting Social Security checks. That's not true. What's really going on is people don't understand its old, underlying technology. The saga of ...
Newsweek

Social Security’s COBOL Software Comes Under Scrutiny

Discussions of Social Security Administration (SSA) fraud from Elon Musk have prompted criticism over the federal government's use of COBOL, a software system that critics consider outdated. Musk ...