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 ...

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

Two top DOGE operatives at the IRS, Sam Corcos and Gavin Kliger, are helping to orchestrate the hackathon, sources tell WIRED. Corcos is a health-tech CEO with ties to Musk’s SpaceX. Kliger attended ...

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 ...

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

Fichtner said his worries are elevated following reports that the Social Security Administration under DOGE plans to move ...

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