The Academy Awards officially adopted the "Oscars" nickname in 1939. But who is Oscar, and who started calling them that? We may never know. But here are four enduring legends to consider.

Many TSA workers received no money in their paychecks Friday as the partial DHS shutdown drags on. Fees paid by airline passengers keep piling up, even as airport security officers work without pay.

With espresso shots, kisses on the cheek and Andrea Bocelli singalongs, Team Italy has charmed the baseball world. But their mission is more ambitious: Turn Italy into a bona fide baseball factory.

It's been a year since mass firings began at the CDC, the federal public health agency. Then came a shooting, and the government shutdown. Atlanta is still feeling the economic and emotional effects.

Fighting robots is a cultural fantasy going back at least to Richard Matheson's 1956 story "Steel." One Detroit impresario is now bringing the idea to the stage — and real audiences.

The FBI is investigating two separate attacks, one in Michigan and the other in Virginia, that happened yesterday. And, the Senate has passed the largest housing bill in decades.

With growing interest in mining critical metals from the seafloor, countries are now negotiating international rules. The Trump administration is forging ahead on its own, speeding up environmental review for mining the fragile ecosystem.

The U.S. military confirmed that all six crew members on an KC-135 aircraft died after the refueling plane went down in western Iraq, raising the U.S. death toll after two weeks of war with Iran.

Meanwhile, if you've been paying attention to medicine, basketball and the British Parliament, you'll get at least three questions right this week.

A year ago, eggs were scarce and prices were sky-high. But avian flu took a much smaller toll on America's egg-laying chickens this winter than last, and egg prices have tumbled 42%.

The image shows Lord Mandelson and the former prince in bathrobes sitting on wooden decking with Epstein.

They briefly threatened to pull out of a government meeting, accusing ministers of using "inflammatory language" over rising fuel prices.

The 84-year-old mother of US TV presenter Savannah Guthrie was kidnapped 41 days ago.

The star sells 183,000 albums as fans give a hearty embrace to Kiss All The Time. Disco Occasionally

Envoi Allen, due to retire after this week, collapsed on the walk back to the stables.

Alireza Askari did everything in his power to cover up the "cold-blooded murder" of Paria Veisi.

The Only Way is Essex celebrity Chloe Lewis launched her plea when her son lost part of his finger.

The Bahrain and Saudi Arabia Grands Prix scheduled for next month are set to be cancelled as a result of the Middle East war.

Sinners, Marty Supreme, Hamnet and One Battle After Another are among the films in contention this year.

The city council is investigating after the bulbs were mowed over by staff days after being planted.

Coding education may become a bit more challenging, but the economics lesson is free

You don't get what you don't pay for! Microsoft's GitHub is dialing back on expenses by removing several costly premium models from its free GitHub Copilot Student plan.…

A 'web of litigation'

The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) has accused one its members of trying to "paralyse" the organization.…

An incident in Macau

A 70-year old woman in China loudly shouted at a robot to leave her alone, but the bot instead stood its ground and did a “raise the roof” move when the woman called it “freaking crazy.”…

And then they send victims to the legit VPN download to hide their tracks

A group of cybercriminals tracked as Storm-2561 is using fake enterprise VPN clients from CheckPoint, Cisco, Fortinet, Ivanti, and other vendors to steal users' credentials, according to Microsoft.…

Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over

Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux devices, years after it turned up on macOS and Windows on Arm.…

PAC chair asks Cabinet Office if anyone bothered telling dept about the shambles before handing over the keys

The chair of the UK Parliament's public spending watchdog has dubbed the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP) decision to award Capita a £370 million shared service contract "extraordinary," given the outsourcing firm's "failings" in supporting the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS).…

35-year staffer comes from time before company's cloud and Copilot obsessions

Microsoft Executive Vice President (EVP) for Experiences and Devices, Rajesh Jha, is retiring from Microsoft after more than 35 years at the Redmond grindstone.…

Gets bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic like a support ticket nobody wants to own

Companies using credits bundled with Microsoft for Startups have found some unwelcome surprises on their credit card statements after deploying Anthropic's Claude via Azure AI Foundry.…

Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot

Linux has two ways to do memory compression – zram and zswap – but you rarely hear about the second. The Register compares and contrasts them.…

'When we tank the vehicle ... I would like it to be on a day that we could actually launch'

NASA has set April 1 for the Artemis II launch, with engineers preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) for a rollout to the pad on March 19.…

Amazon says its service requires "significant investment."

The M5 MacBook Air is a minor upgrade, but minor upgrades add up over time.

Frame-dragging may explain an odd pattern seen in the brightest supernovae.

Despite anti-vaccine rhetoric, New Mexico residents embraced lifesaving shots.

Advanced Shader Delivery uses precompiled shaders for "console-like load times" across PC hardware.

"That truth will upend the established order of the entire world. If you do this, there's no undoing it."

Carmaker’s technology means EVs can be ready almost as quickly as filling a fuel tank.

SpaceX has started commissioning a second launch pad at the company's Starbase facility in Texas.

Company says it doesn't know how long it will take to restore its Microsoft environment.

Unsealed messages add wrinkle to trial after US agreed to settle with Live Nation.