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Welcome back to Daily Crunch. It’s Monday, May 24, and all I can think about is how much I want a Surface Duo now that it can do two-screen gaming. And one of those new iMacs. I don’t need either, of course, but that doesn’t stop my coveting both of the gadgets. Alas.
Regardless, it was a super busy start to the week, with lots of startup funding rounds, more in the long-running saga of governments trying to control social media platforms, even more IPO news and the latest troubles with Tesla. Let’s cut the chatter and dive in. Alex
Thu, May 6th 2021 8:12pm
Timothy Geigner
Peloton is, as they say, having a rough week. While the company has been something of a pop culture darling for several years, it also got a nice boost from this lovely COVID-19 pandemic we ve all been suffering through for more than a year now. Still, no company gets through its full lifecycle unscathed and this week has been a week I m certain the Peloton folks would love to forget. We ll get started with the less-Techdirt centric part of this, which is that Peloton recently had to recall two of its treadmills after it turns out those treadmills occasionally enjoy eating people, especially very young children.
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On top of the privacy spill, Peloton is also recalling all treadmills after the equipment was linked to 70 injuries and the death of one child.
Peloton has hit a pothole. Its API was leaking riders’ private data, it ignored a vulnerability disclosure from a penetration testing company, and it partially fixed the hole but didn’t get around to telling the researcher until he reached out to a cybersecurity journalist for some help.
This is bad news for Peloton, coming just before other, far more horrific news hit the headlines: Namely, on Wednesday, the company recalled all of its treadmills, which have been linked to 70 injuries and the death of one child. It also admitted that it had been wrong to refuse the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s request that it pull the equipment: In April, the CPSC warned consumers to stay off the Peloton Tread+, which “poses serious risks to children for abrasions, fractures, and death.”
Mon, May 3rd 2021 10:47am
Mike Masnick
A couple years we wrote about What3Words, and noted that it was a clever system that created an easy way to allow people to better share exact locations in an easily communicated manner (every bit of the globe can be described with just 3 words so something like best.tech.blog is a tiny plot near Hanover, Ontario). While part of this just feels like fun, a key part of the company s marketing message is that the system is useful in emergency situations where someone needs to communicate a very exact location quickly and easily.