TechCrunch

IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java

COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It’s had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there’s over ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Java, Python Tooling Advances in VS Code

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code dev teams for Java and Python announced Gradle enhancements for the former and improved Python discovery for the latter. The company updates its associated extensions on ...
TechRepublic

Watsonx Code Assistant Adds COBOL-to-Java Translations on IBM Z

Generative AI comes to mainframe application modernization with a model trained on more than 115 code languages and 1.5 trillion tokens of data. IBM announced today watsonx Code Assistant for Z, a ...
VentureBeat

Oracle reveals Code Assist, an AI coding assistant designed for Java and SQL enterprise apps

Oracle has announced plans for an AI-powered service to help developers rapidly program apps based on Java, SQL and the Oracle Cloud infrastructure. When released, Oracle Code Assist will join a small ...
TechCrunch

Twitter reveals some of its source code, including its recommendation algorithm

As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code to public inspection, including the algorithm it uses to recommend tweets in users’ timelines. On ...
The Verge

TikTok is reportedly splitting its source code to create a US-only algorithm

TikTok denied a Reuters report that engineers are cloning the recommendation algorithm to let it work full independently of its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. TikTok denied a Reuters report that ...