Office without teams?
Microsoft reportedly wants to separate the video conferencing and messaging software teams from its in-house office package. This is intended to prevent an antitrust investigation by the European Commission. The Financial Times reported, citing two anonymous people who knew directly about the plan. However, negotiations are still ongoing and an agreement with the EU regulators is not certain. The offer is therefore a reaction to the complaint of the competitor Slack, who considers the integration of teams into the Microsoft 365 services to be inadmissible. In the future, when purchasing Microsoft’s Office, you should be able to decide whether teams should be included, the newspaper summarizes the project.
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Risk of defects with AMD Ryzen 7000
The risk of AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors overheating and being destroyed during operation is greater than initially assumed. Not only the mainboard manufacturer Asus, but also Asrock, Gigabyte and MSI have either already provided BIOS updates or are currently working on them. Only Biostar has so far kept a low profile. The BIOS updates partly screw on the voltages that the mainboards give to the CPUs and partly on the temperature monitoring. The latter obviously does not work in some cases, since heat damage even occurs.
Grimes releases voice for AI songs
As the majority of the music industry tries to take action against music made by artificial intelligence, musician Grimes releases her voice for use. “I split 50 percent of the royalties on every successful AI-generated song that uses my voice,” she wrote on Twitter. Grimes has no label itself and therefore no legal obligations. How exactly the use or the license model could look like is unclear. According to Grimes, on “viral” or “super popular” songs, profits could be shared with her voice.
Mars’ liquid iron core smaller than thought
The liquid core of Mars is smaller and denser than previously thought. This was determined by a research group using data from the NASA lander Insight. In autumn 2021, he was able to measure the seismic waves of two earthquakes that originated on the opposite side of the red planet. On their way to the probe, they had penetrated particularly deep into the interior of the planet and thus made this insight possible. The result also showed that previously collected data was not as precise. The conclusions reached at that time had to be corrected. It has now also been determined that about a fifth of the core of Mars is made up of sulfur, oxygen, carbon and hydrogen.
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