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Enlarge / Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the company's manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China, on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)

Elon Musk has ordered Tesla and SpaceX employees to work in the office full-time or quit their jobs.

On Tuesday, Musk sent two memos telling Tesla employees they must be in the office at least 40 hours per week or leave the company. "Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla. This is less than we ask of factory workers," Musk wrote in a new memo circulating on Twitter, apparently first shared by Tesla stockholder and Full Self-Driving beta tester Sam Nissim. The email's subject line was "Remote work is no longer acceptble [sic]."

Musk seemed to confirm the emailed memo's authenticity. When asked to provide "any additional comment to people who think coming into work is an antiquated concept," Musk tweeted, "They should pretend to work somewhere else."

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The parents of former Activision employee Kerri Moynihan have asked a court to drop a wrongful death lawsuit that they filed in March against the company.

The Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleged that harassment Moynihan suffered at the company contributed to her 2017 suicide, which took place during a corporate retreat at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa. But Axios reports that Moynihan's parents requested on May 6 that the suit be dropped "with prejudice," preventing them from filing the same action again. No reason was given for the request, and neither side of the case commented on the move to Axios.

Moynihan's story was referenced heavily in a California Department of Fair Employment and Housing lawsuit against Activision Blizzard filed last July, though her name was not made public at that time. "We are sickened by the reprehensible conduct of the DFEH to drag into the complaint the tragic suicide of an employee whose passing has no bearing whatsoever on this case and with no regard for her grieving family," Activision Blizzard said in a statement issued shortly after that lawsuit was filed.

Enlarge / Microsoft's Surface Laptop Go 2. (credit: Microsoft)

Microsoft has officially announced the Surface Laptop Go 2, which replaces the original model that was released back in October of 2020. The new model is currently available for preorder. It starts at $600 and comes in four different colors, including a new green-ish Sage option. As of this writing, preordered laptops will arrive as soon as June 7.

The Surface Laptop Go 2 first broke cover in a retail listing yesterday, and that listing had the facts right: The Go 2's biggest update is a Core i5-1135G7 processor. The chip is a generation out of date at this point, but it's still a capable performer and a significant upgrade over the old model's Core i5-1035G1. The 12.4-inch, 1536×1024 touchscreen remains the same, as does the laptop's size, weight, and port selection.

The Laptop Go 2 retains Microsoft's Surface Connect port on the right side. On the left side, you'll find a USB-A port, a headphone jack, and a USB-C port. You can use the USB-C port to charge the laptop. (credit: Microsoft)

The $600 base price is $50 higher than the previous model, but that extra money at least gets you a proper 128GB NVMe SSD rather than 64GB of slow eMMC storage; this drive can also be upgraded with something larger later on, which is a good way to save some money on storage if you're comfortable doing the upgrade yourself. Unfortunately, that base model still includes just 4GB of RAM, a limitation you'll feel any time you try to play a game or open more than a handful of apps or browser tabs at once.