Many banks and other financial institutions operate on IBM mainframes with code written in an ancient language. What are ...

The computer database used by the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles has been there for decades and still uses decades-old technology called COBOL. Meet some of the original computers that ran the ...

Feds claim creaky COBOL, user spike is real reason key portal now flaky The United States Social Security Administration's ...

“The IRS has some pretty legacy infrastructure. It's actually very similar to what banks have been using. It's old mainframes running COBOL and Assembly and the challenge has been, how do we migrate ...

DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.

The planned purge comes as the agency’s long-glitchy technology is suffering more outages than usual, multiple current and ...

Yes, Social Security Administration systems that rely on COBOL need to be updated. No, Elon, it can't be done quickly.

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

The software industry has known for decades that rewriting a system from scratch is never the right solution. The bigger the ...

Elon Musk claimed at a rally in Wisconsin that President Joe Biden let millions of noncitizens collect Social Security numbers during his time in office. Elon ...

Experts are alarmed. The Social Security Administration (SSA) is currently experiencing great anxiety: As has now become known, IT systems that use the decades-old COBOL programming language used ...