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Local AI inference at 32B-parameter quality, no cloud API required: University of Waterloo researchers released PAW on July 2 ...

IBM Z Open Editor is an extension for Visual Studio Code that provides language support for the IBM® Enterprise COBOL, PL/I, HLASM, REXX, and (all new!) JCL languages. Go here for the full ...

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 ...

Developer, hard gamer, and interplanetary explorer. There can be only one. The week Anthropic's COBOL blog post vaporized $40 billion from IBM's market cap, I was debugging a PIC clause parser. I ...

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 ...

International Women’s Day 2026 Special: International Women’s Day is marked on March 8. The day highlights the long struggle for equality, recognition, and rights for women around the world. It also ...

COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language and was created in 1959. It was partly drawn on the work of computing pioneer Grace Hopper and was built for a single purpose: processing business ...

IBM’s (IBM) Software and Chief Commercial Officer, Rob Thomas, wrote in a Monday blog post that translating COBOL code isn’t equivalent to modernizing enterprise systems, emphasizing that platform ...

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 ...

Embedded designers and programmers tend to be a conservative lot who love to delve into the latest technology but adopt it after careful consideration. One of those technologies is vibe coding, which ...

The London Hopper Colloquium welcomed early career researchers, academics and industry guests to GSA Capital’s London office. BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and the Engineering and Physical ...