• Tesla is laying off 10% of its workforce - about 14,000 people - amid slowing sales of electric vehicles despite governments everywhere doing everything short of targeting conventional vehicles with drone strikes.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Tesla actually had a record year in 2023 in terms of units sold, but that was with some pretty significant price cuts.
  
  
  
  

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• Minisforum's V3 tablet is officially here, with preorders open and shipping expected next week.  (Liliputing)
  
  For $1199 you get an eight core Ryzen 8840U processor, a 14" 2560x1600 165Hz display with 100% DCI-P3 colour, 32GB of RAM, 1TB of SSD, a detachable keyboard with the Four Essential Keys, and a touch-sensitive pen.
  
  Ports include two USB4 ports, another USB-C port for video input, a headphone jack, and an SD card slot.
  
  It's not Earth-shattering but it's very good - at least on paper - and half the price of an equivalent Microsoft Surface model.
  
  
  
• If you bought Ubisoft's game The Crew, well, you didn't.  (Tech Spot)
  
  It's gone now.  No, you don't get a refund.  Don't be silly.
  
  This case is a bit different because (a) this is probably illegal in France, and (b) Ubisoft is based in France.
  
  French intellectual property lawyers right now are looking at the holiday homes they'll buy in Santorini when the lawsuit is done.
  
  
  
• Roku is making two-factor authentication mandatory for all accounts after 600,000 customers got hacked.  (The Register)
  
  It doesn't seem that Roku itself was hacked, but that a lot of people still reuse passwords across multiple sites.  Understandable, but not a good idea.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile smart lock company Chirp still hasn't fixed 50,000 locks that it was informed were insecure in 2021.  (Krebs on Security)
  
  Yeah, with one of these here smart locks your home can be even less safe than your television channel.
  
  
  
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