What is COBOL, the high-level programming language that is behind biggest-ever fall in IBM stock value

COBOL is in the headlines again, and this time it is because of artificial intelligence (AI) – sparking conversations with tools emerging that claim t.
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The Little Book of algorithms

We use Quarto to generate all outputs. @book{Nguyen2025TLBoAlg, author = {Duc-Tam Nguyen}, title = {The Little Book of algorithms}, year = {2025}, url = {https ...
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Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just got 10 times easier

The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,000 qubits, but the technical challenges to building such a machine remain numerous ...

When AI learns legacy: How code that rewrites itself is changing IT economics

On 23 Feb 2026, IBM shares dropped 13%, losing nearly $30B, after Anthropic's Claude AI promised faster COBOL modernization, ...

Anthropic's Claude Code Security is available now after finding 500+ vulnerabilities: how security leaders should respond

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 surfaced 500+ high-severity vulnerabilities that survived decades of expert review. Fifteen days later, they shipped Claude Code Security. Here's what reasoning-based ...