Daily Tech News 3 May 2024

• Peloton is laying off another 400 people - about 15% of its surviving workforce. (The Verge)
  
  This is the fifth layoff in three years, reducing the company's workforce by almost two thirds.
  
  If you think such a disastrous performance should see the CEO resigning in disgrace, well, he did.
  
  
  

• Every map of China is wrong. (Medium)
  
  If you overlay satellite data on maps of China, nothing seems to line up properly.
  
  This is because all recent map of China are wrong - deliberately so, with locations shifted by anything from 50 to 500 meters.
  
  And nobody in China is permitted to correct the errors.
  
  
  
• There's another critical security vulnerability in GitLab. (Ars Technica)
  
  GitLab is great.
  
  Under no circumstances should you run your own instance connected directly to the internet.
  
  
  
• Nurses say hospital adoption of half-cooked AI is reckless. (TechDirt)
  
  I'm sure they do, and I'm sure it is, but this article not only provides no evidence whatsoever for these claims, it doesn't even provide any coherent claims.
  
  
  
• Kobo's 2024 e-reader models are user-repairable. (Liliputing)
  
  In the sense that a moderately experienced user with a $20 screwdriver set can open them up and replace the screen, battery, and motherboard, and the front and back parts of the case if the damage is physical rather than electronic.
  
  Which is not everything, but is certainly something.

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