The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously difficult to remove.

As a young art major at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Dr. Barbara Johnson once stood before blank canvases waiting for inspiration to strike. It arrived instead in a computer lab in 1984 ...

Cybercriminals are exploiting AI chatbots to launch sophisticated hacking attacks, with hackers recently stealing 195 million identities from Mexican government agencies. Despite safeguards built into ...

Tech workers are increasingly worried that the artificial intelligence they are building will replace them. But some are optimistic that it is just one more tool to work with. Though powerful, code ...

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The UK is beginning 2026 with big artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions, but without a clear approach to the data that underpins them. Despite some recent positive statements of intent from the ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s new brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs, is being spun out of the Los Angeles–based nonprofit Forest Neurotech, according to a source with direct knowledge of the ...

I got an email from a friend this week in response to my column about coding domains that no developer understands. He wrote: Bro, if you don’t understand Kubernetes, it just means your claim to have ...

When he was young and uncertain about his career small business owner Gene Marks asked his dad about what to do, he told The Guardian newspaper. His dad offered the same advice as many parents of ...

Andy Weir, a computer programmer turned novelist, packs his books with real science. He brought that attention to detail to Ridley Scott’s adaptation of The Martian as the film’s science expert, and ...

Adrian Crane climbed mountains in Scotland with his father and uncle when he was a boy. He remembers using ice axes to climb in the winter when he was only 15. There is this “great feeling you get of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Lamb is a UK-based journalist who specializes in video games. “It was life changing at the time” muses the composer Gerard ...