IBM's $40B stock wipeout is built on a misconception: Translating COBOL isn't the same as modernizing it

Investors wiped $40 billion from IBM's market cap after Anthropic released COBOL translation tools. Analysts say the market ...
Conroe

A Yale professor recommended a ‘good-looking blonde’ student for a job with Epstein. He's not sorry

Yale University says a prominent computer science professor will not teach classes while it reviews his conduct, after newly released documents show he sent Jeffrey Epstein an email describing an ...

Quants: Unveiling the Market Wizards of Wall Street

Discover how quantitative analysts, or quants, use advanced mathematical models to predict market trends and identify ...
Securities.io

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 ...
CoinDesk

Bank of Japan expands blockchain settlement sandbox and says CBDC efforts are ongoing

Japan’s central bank is running blockchain settlement experiments and advancing tokenized central bank money initiatives ...

Bank of Japan testing blockchain settlement for bank deposits in new sandbox

Japan’s central bank says a sandbox is underway to examine settlement using current account deposits, while warning of smart ...
InfoWorld

GlassFish 8 Java server boosts data access, concurrency

Update implements Jakarta EE 11 platform and brings support for Jakarta Data repositories and virtual threads.
WFMZ-TV

ASD to offer both English, Spanish classes through new dual-language program

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – With its school board's blessing, the Allentown School District's administration plans to adapt its Newcomer Academy to create a dual-language immersion program to meet the current ...
Yahoo Finance

Federal Home Loan Bank of New York Opens 2026 Affordable Housing Program and Homebuyer Dream Program Rounds with $93.8 Million in Available Grant Funding

NEW YORK, Feb. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of New York (“FHLBNY”) announced today that $93.8 million in housing grant funds is now available through the 2026 rounds of its ...

Using the Ring Programming Language and Softanza Library at ESPA‑MT and SONIBANK

From Classroom to Enterprise: The Ring Programming Language and Softanza Library Power Education and Banking in Niger ...
PC Gamer

WoW's classes were pruned for Midnight because many were 'built in a world' where its devs assumed they'd be using addons

World of Warcraft World of Warcraft: Midnight's lack of combat addons lets the devs make raids harder without resorting to 'shoot more bullets at you' design, says encounter lead World of Warcraft ...