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Why is the C programming language called C? And what happened to D?

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Anthropic Vs. IBM: AI Starts To Threaten Businesses (Rating Downgrade)

International Business Machines Corporation stock plunges; downgrade IBM to Hold as Anthropic's Claude Code threatens ...

When AI learns legacy: How code that rewrites itself is changing IT economics

On 23 Feb 2026, IBM shares dropped 13%, losing nearly $30B, after Anthropic's Claude AI promised faster COBOL modernization, ...
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 ...
InfoWorld

Abandoned project linking Java, JavaScript makes a comeback

The Detroit project envisioned using JavaScript as an extension language for Java applications. Now it’s being revived with ...
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COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know

Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started.
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In Memoriam: David J. Farber

In 1977, Farber joined the University of Delaware as a professor of electrical engineering and professor of computer science. There, he led the development of the Multichannel Memorandum Distribution ...