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

AI startup Anthropic's claim of automating COBOL modernization sent IBM's stock plummeting, wiping billions off its market value. The decades-old language, still powering critical systems, faces a ...
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This Tool Lets Me Open Spreadsheets In The Terminal, And It’s More Useful Than It Sounds

Xleak is a simple terminal tool that lets you open and inspect Excel files instantly, without ever leaving your command line.

Will software engineering profession die in the age of AI? IBM stock bleeds as Claude Code writes COBOL scripts. What it means for techies

AI agents like Claude Code are reshaping software development by automating legacy modernisation and routine coding. A recent ‘casualty’ of this was the legendary firm IBM, whose stocks fell.
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Anthropic’s Claude Code vs COBOL: IBM Investors React

While Anthropic’s Claude Code grabbed headlines, IBM has been deploying its own generative AI solution, Watsonx Code Assistant for Z, designed to modernize the very mainframes it built. Unlike general ...
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A proteome-wide biochemical screen defines binding determinants of the core autophagy protein LC3B

Human MAP1LC3B (LC3B) binds proteins involved in autophagy and other cellular processes using a degenerate four-residue short linear motif known as the LC3-interacting region (LIR). Biochemical and ...