Similar efforts are underway at companies and governments around the world, as the urgency to address aging computer code ...

From online banking applications and airline ticketing services to pensions disbursements, critical systems are often ...

A 2022 study on government COBOL system replacements revealed that projects with just 10–20 million lines of code often took more than seven years to complete. Musk’s team appears to believe ...

COBOL, despite being more than 6 decades old, remains prevalent, with billions of lines of active code still running in production. The challenge isn’t the technology itself—it’s the perception that ...

According to Wired's sources, the bureaucratizers want to use it to translate the estimated 60 million lines of COBOL code into another programming language. It will also cover important core ...

No, Elon, it can't be done quickly. The Social Security Administration (SSA) payment system has more than 60 million lines of COBOL code. That makes it one of the world’s largest, not to mention ...

Under any circumstances, a migration of this size and scale would be a massive undertaking, experts tell WIRED, but the expedited deadline runs the risk of obstructing payments to the more than 65 ...

COBOL remains so widely used in our financial system that 95% of ATM transactions rely on it. There are 220 billion lines of COBOL in use today. Why? Mostly because it’s really good at ...

Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.