Copilot quietly grabs your data from other Microsoft products now - here's how to opt out

A new setting in Copilot will access data from Bing, MSN, Edge, and other services. You can disable this if you're worried about your privacy.
Indiatimes

Word of the Day, 14 February 2026: ‘Pulchritudinous’ - what it means and how to use it

Language is funny and strange sometimes. Some words just feel easy, smooth, like they were made to be said while others feel awkward or clumsy, and you stumble over them. Then there are words that ...
The New York Times

The ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It

The term, long considered a slur for those with intellectual disabilities, is seeing a resurgence on social media and across the political right. By Dan Barry and Sonia A. Rao Late last month, a woman ...
Inc

Emotionally Intelligent People Use 1 Word to Get More Done With Less Stress

As a business owner, husband, and dad of four, this feeling creeps up a lot. But I’ve discovered a tool that helps me manage that anxiety and makes me super productive. Sprint (stylized as SPRInt), is ...
The New York Times

The Filthy Word That Filmmakers Swear By

How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity. By Julia Jacobs Produced by Rumsey Taylor Tim Herlihy had far exceeded his allotment of ...
Tampa Bay Times

Want funding? Head Start centers told not to use words such as ‘belong’

Jeffrey S. Solochek is an education reporter covering K-12 education policy and schools. Reach him at [email protected]. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times ...
inforum

McFeely: Minnesota and North Dakota Republicans shrug at president’s vicious use of ‘r-word’

MOORHEAD — In case you missed it Thanksgiving night, and you probably did because it was Thanksgiving and most normal Americans are hanging with family and watching football, President He Who Shall ...
People

Republican Lawmaker, Whose Daughter Has Down Syndrome, Condemns Trump's Use of the R-Word

“This is not the first time our president has used these insulting and derogatory references and his choices of words have consequences,” Mike Bohacek said iga.in.gov;Steven Hirsch-Pool/Getty ...
The Indianapolis Star

Indiana senator says he's a no on redistricting after Trump uses slur

A Northern Indiana Republican announced Nov. 28 that he will vote against Indiana redistricting following President Donald Trump's use of a slur in a Thanksgiving social media post. Trump's Nov. 27 ...
KCCI Des Moines

Des Moines school employee fired for using a slur while reporting a student’s use of the word

The Des Moines Public Schools forced an employee to resign or be fired after she reported a student’s use of a racial slur by using the word while explaining the student’s conduct to disciplinary ...
CNN

‘Vibe coding’ named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year

“Vibe coding,” a form of software development that involves turning natural language into computer code by using artificial intelligence (AI), has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for ...