Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely ...

Yes, Social Security Administration systems that rely on COBOL need to be updated. No, Elon, it can't be done quickly.

Wired magazine reported last week that the Department of Government Efficiency plans to replace the mainframes that power the agency’s mission and rebuild ... only it’s not DOGE staffers who risk ...

House Oversight member is calling for an investigation into DOGE's actions at the Social Security Administration.

In order to migrate all COBOL code ... “DOGE thinks if they can say they got rid of all the COBOL in months then their way is the right way and we all just suck for not breaking shit,” says ...

Elon [Roman Salute] Musk is trying to modernise America’s Social Security Administration ... dead code, or logic designed around 40-year-old hardware quirks. DOGE will spend years just trying ...

In fact, DOGE has already started putting together a team to migrate Social Security’s computer systems off of outdated code. Some people may be worried about DOGE getting involved in Social ...

The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE ... Social Security Administration uses to make payments. Wired today cited sources as saying the initiative will focus on switching code ...

On Thursday, a federal judge ordered Musk and DOGE to stop accessing ... was eventually given access to the SSA’s full dataset, “including source code.” A former federal employee speaking ...

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together ... Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language ...

"The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest ...