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Yahoo Sports Tony Bennett, longtime Virginia men's basketball coach, unexpectedly retires before start of the season Bennett, who has been the Cavaliers' coach since 2009, led the team to an NCAA Championship in 2019 a year after Virginia lost in the first round as a No. 1 seed.

Yahoo News What the return of 'a weak La Nina' could mean for the coming winter — and the next hurricane season After a year of record warm global temperatures caused by climate change and an El Niño weather pattern, "a weak La Niña" is expected to form ahead of the arrival of winter, the National Weather Service said, and could last through March of next year.

Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Thursday that Prabhakar Raghavan, the executive in charge of the company's search engine and ads products, is leaving his role. Longtime Google executive Nick Fox will replace Raghavan, who will now take on the role of chief technologist. "Prabhakar has decided it's time to make a big leap in his own career," Pichai said in the announcement post.

Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft One of the tech industry's biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, wants you to know that he is psyched about generative AI, but even he doesn't think it can do what its biggest proponents say it will do. A month after Salesforce's enormous tech conference, Dreamforce, during which Benioff endlessly pitched, pumped, and lauded AI — at least as it's used in Salesforce's own products – he's now on a setting-expectations tour. Talking about AI's potential, he said, "I've never been more excited about anything at Salesforce, maybe in my career."

The 14 biggest take-private PE acquisitions so far this year in tech The private equity realm has been pretty active so far in 2024, serving as a powerful "alternative" source of liquidity for technology startups and scale-ups in search of an exit. In August, TechCrunch reported that EQT had picked up a majority stake in cybersecurity firm Acronis at a valuation of around $4 billion, following in the footsteps of another exit, in which EQT snapped up enterprise middleware company WSO2 for $600 million. According to PitchBook, there were 136 take-private deals led by private equity firms in 2023, up 15% on the previous year.