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The defense team is going through text messages between Sean “Diddy” Combs and his former assistant Mia. In 2018, Mia texted Combs during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. “Merry Christmas love you so so much,” Mia wrote in one text. She had just seen Combs at Kim Porter’s funeral, Mia testified. Porter, who shared three children with Combs, died in November 2018. A few weeks later, on January 15, 2019, Mia texted Combs that she was thinking about him because she had a nightmare that she was trapped in an elevator with R. Kelly and Combs saved her, according…

The Class of 2025 is preparing to enter the workforce, and it can be a daunting prospect.In a conversation with Business Insider, Irmgard Naudin ten Cate, global talent attraction and acquisition leader at the Big Four firm EY, told us about the key pieces of advice she shares with college students preparing to embark on their careers.She said students should lean into networking early, be open to trying out job simulations, prepare with AI, and emphasize soft skills in interviews.Develop your soft skillsNaudin ten Cate said it’s important to highlight soft skills as well as more technical skills in your…

Buttery mashed potatoes. Creamy macaroni and cheese. Luscious ice cream and smoothies. It’s hard to overlook the fact that when it comes to soft foods Americans seem to have, well, a soft spot. Just ask the Atlantic, the New York Times and Salon, the latter of which cited an evolutionary purpose for the preference. And it’s no wonder: These foods are not only delicious but also comforting.“Soft foods are just very satisfying because they feel really indulgent,” registered dietitian Bree Phillips tells Yahoo Life. “A lot of those foods tend to be really rich in fat or sugar, like mac…

More than two decades after Steve Ballmer’s frenzied “Developers! Developers! Developers!” chant became a viral sensation, the former Microsoft CEO said it wasn’t just for show.Ballmer broke down the iconic moment — sweat, shouting, and all — on an episode of the “Acquired” podcast published Monday. He said it was a strategic “call to action” for Microsoft then.Ballmer was frustrated with how Microsoft’s culture in the early 2000s still saw itself as “just a platform company,” he said.Internally, teams were focused on building the infrastructure — Windows, Windows Server, ActiveX — but weren’t doing enough to engage external developers to…

Generative AI comes in many forms. Increasingly, though, it’s marketed the same way: with human names and personas that make it feel less like code and more like a co-worker. A growing number of startups are anthropomorphizing AI to build trust fast — and soften its threat to human jobs. It’s dehumanizing, and it’s accelerating. I get why this framing took off. In today’s upside-down economy, where every hire feels like a risk, enterprise startups — many emerging from the famed accelerator Y Combinator — are pitching AI not as software but as staff. They’re selling replacements. AI assistants. AI…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Pacers have finally ended the franchise’s 25-year NBA Finals drought, achieving the unthinkable after starting 10-15 and looking like anything but a title contender.Now Indiana will try to exorcise the demons of its decades-long, snake-bitten history and actually win the title when the Pacers take on the Oklahoma City in the NBA Finals.“It is really a special thing that happened 25 years ago, I wasn’t even six months old,” Tyrese Haliburton said after Indiana’s series-ending victory over New York. “There’s a lot of fans who have never seen success from this organization, especially people around my…

Slowly but surely, the stars of Houston’s 2017 World Series-winning team have scattered about in the years since. George Springer is in Toronto now, Alex Bregman in Boston and Carlos Correa in Minnesota. Justin Verlander pitches for San Francisco. Jose Altuve and Lance McCullers Jr. are still with the Astros, but it feels like it’s only a matter of time before Houston’s dominance of the AL West comes to an end.The question is whether anyone else in the division has what it takes to force a changing of the guard.If it weren’t for Oakland’s division title in the pandemic-shortened 2020…

Uber’s chief product officer has one AI tool on his to-do list.In an episode of “Lenny’s Podcast” released on Sunday, Uber’s product chief, Sachin Kansal, shared two ways he is using AI for his everyday tasks at the ride-hailing giant and how he plans to add NotebookLM to his AI suite.Kansal joined Uber eight years ago as its director of product management after working at cybersecurity and taxi startups. He became Uber’s product chief last year.Kansal said he uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini to summarize long reports.”Some of these reports, they’re 50 to 100 pages long,” he said. “I…

CNN  —  Music festivals are facing a crisis. On the brink of what should be another exciting summer festival season, dozens of music festivals are shutting down. The trend has been simmering for years — the longstanding Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago isn’t returning this summer, following similar announcements last year from Atlanta’s Music Midtown and Kickoff Jam in Florida. Meanwhile, festivals like Jay-Z’s Made in America festival and Delaware’s Firefly Music Festival haven’t returned since 2022. This year, more than 40 festivals have already been canceled, according to one count. These cancellations aren’t the only signs that something is…

JINJA, Uganda (AP) — Simon Tigawalana dreamed for years of doing something about the dirt floors in his small house, blaming them for making his family sick. But in a rural area in one of the world’s poorest countries, making them over with concrete was simply out of reach.Then a company called EarthEnable approached him to offer an alternative: a clay-based earthen floor that could give him a durable, sealed floor for less than half the cost of concrete. Tigawalana now has the new floor in two rooms and hopes to add it soon in the last room.“I’m happy that…