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Monday: DOGE vs. COBOL in US authorities, Microsoft vs. offline installations

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System reform of the US Social Fund + Microsoft pushes online account + opening of Hannover Messe + Aldi closes online shops + abolition of time change
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DOGE wants to migrate U.S. social security systems in a few months. These systems are encoded in COBOL, an old language that is now little programmed, but renowned for its robustness. The U.S. "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) is setting up a team to migrate all the systems in the U.S. state of [...]

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WIRED, an international news media outlet, has reported that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems from COBOL to Java and other programming languages in just a few months. On the social news site Hacker News, some have raised concerns about the dangers of this migration plan.

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System reform of the US Social Fund + Microsoft pushes online account + opening of Hannover Messe + Aldi closes online shops + abolition of time change

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Heise broke the news in Germany on Monday, March 31, 2025.
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