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I'm Ted Howell. Let's start with what you need to know with a big heaping bowl of big story. And whether you pour regular milk on top of it or almond milk, that's your choice. Whatever you prefer. Nintendo raising Switch 2's price in only its second year, right? The console is not that old at this point. While warning during its earnings call that its hardware sales and profits are set to fall because of the impact of rising memory costs, Nintendo plans to raise the Switch 2's US price by $50. So it's not major, but notable. So that's going to cost $500 starting September 1st. So you have time. If you're in Japan, you don't have a whole lot of time. They're getting a 10,000 yen hike going into effect on May 25th. So 20 days, 19 days from now. Similar price hikes coming to Europe and Canada. No timeline or details available for those price hikes quite yet, but I'm sure we'll find out soon. Nintendo is forecasting lower console unit sales and profit, far below analyst expectations. As a result, Switch 2 sales are actually tracking ahead of the original Switch, but still, Nintendo expects net profit to drop about 27% on an 11% revenue decline. And, yeah, switch to – I mean, it was good out of the gate. I think that's what's interesting about this is that it's a new console, has a lot of momentum, has some energy right out of the gate. We are now in the second year. Price hike goes in the opposite direction of what we're used to seeing with consoles. Usually the longer a console is out, that price drops. But this is just a – as the term I've heard repeatedly over the last I don't know how many years, unprecedented times. it really is um yeah i i suppose that there's always going to be a little skepticism i think with ron clown soldiers because it's always like a dicey thing right uh especially like these days it feels like um especially as so as much as we talk about things like cloud gaming and how much of an i feel like there is a big appetite for things like cloud gaming and you know i guess like to mention poor stadia and things like that it just felt like it hasn't it has poor stadia And solutions like that haven't really taken off, but I really wonder what this does mean for the future. Are you pulling out from your bag of tricks to Stadia? I mean, you said the word Stadia. And I know that I've got it within reach. It's just over there on a shelf. We've got to remember poor cloud-based Stadia. It's so funny because I feel like maybe Stadia was just, as many things are, too early for its time. And this is unprecedented. I will say what's interesting, and this is not like a bombshell or anything, but it's fascinating because generally Nintendo has lower prices in Japan. And if you do the math, and it's really hard because the yen is just, if you're all familiar, the yen is just having a bad time. But even if you convert for today, what 10,000 yen is, that's $63. So technically it's like a little bit more than the increase in the US. But it's fascinating because usually Nintendo's in Japan, at least console-wise, are much cheaper. which is what a lot of people like to go over. So it does seem to be signaling, you know, not great, that the situation is not great. And gosh, this whole like economic net and tech net of like, well, because of AI, you know, data center implosion and of different manufacturers either reacting to it or kind of shifting, like pivoting in their businesses to take advantage of it or otherwise, or pivoting or increasing prices because they're affected negatively by it. It's kind of, I just really wonder whether the weather could come back to Stadia since you brought it out. How this will affect like, you know, future approaches. Like obviously, like we talked about Xbox and kind of, and obviously the Xbox is a much more complicated, much more, there's a lot more like different nuances there. But I don't know, maybe we're getting to a point where consoles, hardware is just reaching that tipping point. And that not necessarily because we don't like consoles or that people don't enjoy buying hardware, but that just between everything that we have going on, maybe it's that tipping point. Poor Stadia. Maybe Stadia was just, what, five, four? How long was it ago? Whatever it was ago. Maybe it was just too early. I don't know. If I had to guess off the top of my head, it was probably like five years ago. But, yeah. I'm just curious. Yeah. I mean, I think maybe somewhat to your point, is this the new normal? At least for this year, this seems to be the new normal. And I think continually, at least every week, one of the times that I'm on, there's some sort of story that ties into this whole memory shortage. How is it impacting product cost and everything? So from that perspective, it becomes like, is the story here that the switch to let's say is in trouble or not doing as well as you know the switch one at that same time actually the switch to its first year um outpaced the original switch so it did pretty darn good but any of these like these moments where the price is increasing it's going to impact you know demand and sales and all this kind of stuff is this just a symbol of the time that we're in and the related cause of that being this chip shortage? Or does it signal kind of like some sort of potential long-term change to how these companies, you know, are used to selling their hardware? Like, does it make some sort of longer-term impact? And obviously, that remains to be seen. But one thing is clear, it definitely impacts momentum, right? Yeah, 100%. Switch 2 had some solid momentum that first year. now this is going to shift that momentum. Is that recoverable? Is that something, you know, like it's still too early to say. Nintendo, not the only one, you know, facing this as well, right? Also in the news, Sony announced its earnings, revealing during the earnings call that PlayStation 5 sales fail roughly 46% year over year. Of course, this is kind of a different story because the PlayStation 5 has been out for a while, certainly past its peak at this point. CEO Hiroki Totoki revealed that the company is keeping PlayStation 6 plans flexible. So that means no set launch window, no pricing or anything like that that they're revealing right now. And they citing the volatile kind of state of memory costs as the reason why Sony is expecting memory prices to stay elevated into its 2027 fiscal year Totoki also shared that engagement on the PS5 is still very strong. And so that essentially means that Sony has the time in its estimation to kind of hold off on the release of news or information or a next gen console, the PS6, for a time when memory prices potentially improve somewhere down the line. Perhaps that gives Sony an opportunity to, instead of focusing on this new console, develop out other related hardware like a refreshed PS5 model, which they often do later in the cycle, or accessories, that sort of stuff. This is definitely a bit of a different one. I kind of wonder, and I think I mentioned this on Android Faithful, whether you guys thought that um smartphones were solved in a sense because we've been in like kind of like a state where everything seems the same more or less um and and not to say the same thing is true of consoles but i really wonder because the ps5 i didn't like yeah it's been around for a while um and and i feel like there's there's been continuing lots of i feel like for for me and again i'm not like as serious a gamer and i'm certainly not as as well tapped into the entire like you know gaming journalism market and all like kind of like the the hyper enthusiasts and all like the different trends there um but it really feels like there's a lot more focus on games uh as far as i can consider like it feels like i mean i mean that's like gaming too right really the console is a vehicle the main the main kind of driver is games um and yeah and i just wonder especially again like kind of citing like xbox and things like that too it's just been so interesting to kind of feel that the ps5 is still doing amazing i feel like a lot of times with consoles you start to feel its age at some point right like it starts to be like okay um and that the next generation feels like this evolutionary leap where we go from like you know like blocky polygons and like you know donkey kong 64 to oh my god ray tracing and everything has got you know like like like real like like real physics simulation based um based graphics i don't i honestly wonder also whether there might be some like what the longer term trends would be for that as well since i don't know like i only have so many rods and cones in my eyeballs i don't know how like you know and and obviously gaming is is really beautiful now i just kind of i'm curious whether and this might be like who knows 10 20 years in the future if if we have enough memory enough around to make it there um i'm really curious whether we will continue to see like longer and longer or if anything a a console like the ps5 just having a much longer shelf like like i mean between the switch and switch 2 was was a huge amount of time right especially given the kind of games and the kind of gaming you do i almost wonder whether especially given everything where we'll just see these more expanded and expanded, like, you know, amounts of time between consoles just because there's a limit to, like, you know, like. How much you can actually improve. Yeah, just like 8K. Who needs 8K? Yeah. Yeah. No, that's an interesting idea. Yeah. I suppose we'll see. Yeah. But it is an interesting time. It's an interesting moment with the impacts of the memory costs right now and how it's kind of having a direct impact on kind of future plans for how these things get developed and released and announced. Well, whatever is coming in the future, you can be assured that we will be with you. And thank you guys for making that possible because DTNS is made possible by you, the listener. So let's take time to thank Jim Hart, Mike Akins, Norm Fazekas, and Pete Patron. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Thank you. Welcome to Rheinisches Revere, Germany's most exciting investment hub, where global leaders like Microsoft are investing billions. Home to Europe's fastest supercomputer, the region offers strong R&D partnerships. So let its outstanding digital infrastructure connect you to key markets in real time. Rheinisches Revere is ready for growth and ready for you. Find out more at bepartofit.nrw. There's plenty more we need to know today. Let's get to the briefs. All right. Well, thanks again to Motang for bringing this to our attention in the subreddits and letting us know that Instructure, and that's the company behind the Canvas learning system that many schools and universities use to run their classes online, has unfortunately confirmed a major data breach along with an extortion attack that has been tied to the Shiny Hunters ransomware group. It claims to have stolen data on around 275 million users across roughly 9,000 schools worldwide, including 3.65 terabytes worth of data. This includes names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and private messages. Instructor says there is no evidence of access to passwords, states of birth, government identifiers, or financial data in the breach. Canvas users were presented with a defaced login, with defaced login pages that showed a ransom note that threatened to leak the stolen data unless instructor or institutions paid by mid-May. That led to instructor pulling Canvas offline at a time when many schools and classes are preparing for finals ahead of the end of school year. So kind of a crazy moment for all of this to happen, right? If you're a student and you're relying on these online classes or you're doing a hybrid thing, you know, this this puts students and schools into a pretty uncomfortable position where they have to kind of think on their toes and figure out how else you approach this while this is shut down. Hopefully it gets resolved soon, but I think there's probably a lot of scrambling happening behind the scenes and trying to figure out how do you do what you do when you rely on a platform like this. You know what? Seeing stories like this and I guess security stories and issues happen to everyone, but looking at this impacting students right now, I realize a consistent thing that I keep returning to is how difficult it's got to be to be a student of that age right now. They are facing so much between things like this, between whether founded or not, put an air quote, scare quotes, the threat of AI, taking your jobs. Is my time in university even worth doing if this AI is just going to – what an uncertain and weird time to be a student of that age right now. I feel for them. Yeah, they've definitely taken a lot of hits between the pandemic and everything now. That too. That's a good point. These are probably the same students that just a few years ago were in high school during the pandemic and everything shut down. what does this lead to 10 15 20 years down the line and their own ethic their own skills and everything that they bring probably makes them really resilient in a lot of ways uh with anything um i guess uh sorry you guys i'm sorry we didn't we i'm sorry for for all the myriad things that maybe the rest of us could have done to alleviate you on this and we're so sorry that people are now taking advantage um yeah this is like i mean it's pretty dang sneaky to do this during such a high pressure time because yeah obviously anyway i raised my fist and angrily for you guys i'm so sorry it's a good point though yarg uh bloomberg's mark german is reporting this is kind of rumor land but i thought it was interesting uh that apple is already testing its next gen airpods pro with stem-mounted cameras that can act as eyes for the upcoming revamped Siri. The cameras are meant to feed into Siri's visual intelligence use cases, so identifying what you're looking at, offering context-aware reminders, referencing landmarks when you in navigation mode that sort of stuff Just a few ideas Gurman says Apple employees are already trialing prototypes but the launch timing is of course tied to the next release of iOS and iPadOS and MacOS. That would be release number 27, which is expected in September. Gurman also warns that the product could still be delayed, of course, if Apple isn't satisfied with the quality of the visual AI features. Gurman shared that there are no Vision Pro style gesture controls planned at this time, though you can imagine like if there's a camera in the earbuds, maybe it opens up the door for something like that. He's saying that's not on the horizon right now. I'm very interested in this, especially because we talk a lot about smart glasses and it really got me thinking like which are people more likely to use for this sort of like ai hardware tool thing are they more likely to put on a pair of glasses are they more likely to just use the camera that's embedded in their airpods i kind of think like i don't know i watch my daughters both of them have airpods they wear them all the time yeah i could see it i can totally see it no i think this is actually kind of all of the social like impacts aside i think this is kind of brilliant i feel like i so two things first when you said stem mounted i know you mean the stems on the airpods but i was almost picturing like little antenna sticking up and having little eyeballs here little periscope little above your forehead reaching out from your ear yes wouldn't that be amazing but i i do understand it's i and this is so funny because i feel like it's almost like you took a picture of a human face and you like you know like this is like ridiculous how people there's like this thing on on some like kids shows where they would draw a face on your chin and then rotate it and then you look at a face upside down it almost feels like i'm looking at um smart glasses like that and i honestly think it's brilliant i i you know i i like this idea so much that we kind of inversed we inversed what happened whereas we took glasses and we would stick like you know um bone conduction or whatever on them so that they had the audio component i kind of think this idea is brilliant and because you're right we are so used to seeing people with airpods um i've been watching a lot of orphan black so everyone's wearing the bluetooth headsets from like 10 years you know 10 15 years ago we are so used to that and it doesn't have the same like let's just like they might use a dramatic word stigma or maybe like the problematic kind of nature that we have cameras i think like just strictly from a feasibility perspective i think this is brilliant i don't know if someone like for me like with long hair or something might have an issue. But I do think this is a really, if this is true, I do think it's a really brilliant approach and something worth trying. It may not work out at all, but I think that's, I love the, I love how my brain does it a backflip when you describe that. I think it's interesting. Well, and I think what you point out also is, or what you said kind of led me to this idea that like the stigma around smart glasses is something that we've been dealing with for the last 10 years, is Google Glass and the camera kerfuffle, if it qualifies to be a kerfuffle word. I just loved when I had the opportunity to say it. But that's still around. I'm definitely seeing articles from people now that are like, we've got smart glasses, they do better things, but there's still a stigma around having a pair of a camera embedded into the glasses that you're wearing. When you meet people who aren't like super friendly with that, that can be really uncomfortable. I wonder if a similar stigma will attach itself to AirPods having a camera in it, or is that camera so small that it becomes less of an obvious thing because it's not on our face where we're looking, it's in the ears. You know what I mean? Like maybe that subtle shift changes, or maybe Apple faces similar backlash. I don't know. That's going to be interesting if we actually see this product come to market. Yeah, 100%. There is something about the fact that – almost literally because glasses frame your eyes. I feel like there's some psychology there that – So we're looking at it no matter what. We're feeling it. Yeah. All right. Well, ebook company Books launched a new product called Tappy, a wireless page turning remote that connects to its e-ink tablets and other Bluetooth devices for hands-free reading and control. The remote consists of two thumb-sized buttons with different functions, depending on the mode that it's set to. Reading mode for page turns, browsing mode for vertical scrolling, scrolling rather, not scrolling, scrolling, and listening mode for audio and music track navigation. It has a 95 milliamp rechargeable battery that lasts weeks and comes in green or orange with two space keycaps with pixelated icons like heart, coffee cup, X and O. The remote works with more than just books products and runs $25.99 on the book site and Amazon. Yeah, this is this is one of those hardware things that when I saw it, I was like, OK, I guess I could see it. Like, apparently there's a market for this. Kobo has a similar remote. remote. And the idea here is that sometimes when you're reading an e-book or something like that, you aren't always holding the device. A lot of people mount it on the table in front of them. And then every time you need to turn the page, you got to gorilla arm yourself out there to touch either the button or swipe on the screen or whatever. And the remote's just meant to make you give you more convenience or more lazy, however you want to look at it. But i don't know i think it's funny okay when i first saw this my first reaction my unkind reaction was like well this dumb although i actually might buy one and the more i thought about it um and this is one of those things where i i think like um it kind of like it it dawned on me actually how brilliant this is uh number one maybe i'm getting a little sappy but my husband and i like to read in bed at night i like to i i have like my devices uh you know we like to cuddle it is hard to cuddle someone and sometimes turn pages or swipe pages um yeah and you got to do that and um i think we i think just because of my handedness i often will have to like switch it it's it's odd i know this is like this is even beyond first world problems y'all this is some sappy stuff but um but yes i was like that's kind of brilliant also my sister's still breastfeeding my nephew like there's tons of ways for us to not be able to hold a thing yeah hold a device and so for her i bet that she would love to have like just a little remote so that she could read keep her like you know her um ebook on her lap and still you know do what she needs to do with a baby like yeah kind of brilliant um and i think that's actually to bring it back around to something more serious um that these kind of things are about accessibility and for most of us who you know are lucky enough to have to experience any disabilities or you know to have any periods of like kind of low mobility low accessibility it's hard for us to see who is this for but then like it can be like a very much uh the rising tide lifts all boats and i actually think i don't get one i'm serious you guys i think you get you get one of these if when you see that it exists you immediately go oh i know exactly what i'd use that for yes you know what i mean because like when i first saw it i was like well that's really silly, but I've never, I've never put my e-reader on a table and, and read it like that. I'm always kind of reading it, but you talk about the laying in bed reading, you know, while like snuggling or whatever. Like I do that with my daughter, right? Like my daughter's a man. I'm reading her a story and sometimes the way we're like intertangled, it's like super inconvenient. So yes, so I get it. Well, you know, I, I actually will buy, I might buy one for you, for my sister. But, you know, if you have someone in your life who maybe doesn't necessarily need a tappy, but does need some fancy gift, guess what? We have lots of options for you over at dailytechnewsshow.com slash store. We have mugs, t-shirts, mouse pads, all with our new DTNS logo. And again, if you need a great gift and also want to support the show, there you go. There you go. Welcome to Rheinische Reville, Germany's most exciting investment hub, where global leaders like Microsoft are investing billions Home to Europe fastest supercomputer the region offers strong R partnerships So let its outstanding digital infrastructure All right now some quick headlines that are good to know might make you look smarter in the future all right well mozilla says anthropic's mythos model helped its research team uncover and triage thousands of high severity bugs inside of firefox including some decade-old sandbox and html parsing flaws leading to 423 bug fixes in april compared to 31 bugs 31 bug fixes one year earlier just a quick correction hundreds not thousands thousands would have been amazing I'm so sorry. I said – It's okay. It says hundreds. I read thousands. My bad. It's hundreds, but still. Sometimes hundreds just feels like thousands because it's just a lot. I mean, if you have 10 of them, then you're there. But anyway, yeah, sorry, hundreds, not thousands. My bad. Whoop announced plans to launch in-app video visits with licensed clinicians in the U.S., integrate HealthX electronic health records, and layer AI-driven health guidance on top of biometric data from its fitness wearable. Are you a Whoop user? I feel like maybe I've heard you say something about Whoop. I am. I might. We talked about this yesterday in the show. I might jettison Whoop for the new Fitbit air. Oh, okay. So this is interesting, but have fun, Whoop. I'm on the way out. Might not be good enough. Yeah. Yeah. I'll come back for this one. French cybercrime prosecutors have escalated their 2025 probe into Elon Musk and the X platform into a formal criminal investigation over the platform's generation and spread of deepfakes and non-consensual sexual images and alleged manipulation of French politics in the algorithm. Thanks to Piscator NF in the subreddit for this follow-up on yesterday's quick hit that Samsung unions were threatening an 18-day strike for a 7% pay rise and 15% of operating profit. Now, the chip workers union has rejected Samsung's one-time $340,000 per head bonus offer and is demanding guaranteed annual profit sharing instead. OpenAI released a Codex Chrome extension that lets the AI test web apps, pull contacts from open tabs, and work with Chrome dev tools in parallel. Also, OpenAI added a trusted contact feature to ChatGPT. It lets adults nominate or choose a friend who can be alerted by a trained human reviewer at the company if that user's chats show a serious risk of self-harm. Well, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince and President COO Michelle Zatlin posted that the company will lay off more than 1,000 employees globally who are in support roles made redundant by new generative tools. Prince said on Cloudflare's earning call, quote, I would guess that in 2027, we will have more employees than we did at any point in 2026, but the roles are changing dramatically and you have to do something dramatic to make that shift. And finally, gaming related once again, Valve is reopening sales of its $99 retooled Steam controller today through a one per customer reservation system, very controlled, that's limited to existing Steam buyers in good standing. This is what they're doing to curb scalpers. The first batch that they sold, sold out in minutes and then immediately went to eBay with steep markups. So they're trying to avoid that again. It's really easy. By the way, y'all, if you're interested, both my husband and I missed out, you just have to log into Steam, go to the page and you literally hit a button and there's not even any like confetti or anything. You just hit a button and you're in the queue. So there you go. Oh, cool. Did you do that? I did do that. Yes, I did do that. So there you go. Yeah, very good tip. We end every episode of DTNS with some shared perspectives. Today, Mark explains one of the risks from Microsoft's policy of leaving passwords from the Edge browser in plain text in memory. Well, Mark W. writes, Microsoft's response about passwords in the clear on Edge is correct. You have to be an admin to get to the memory by design. However, there have been many vulnerabilities like Heartbleed that gave access to memory like encryption keys. Edge would be just as vulnerable in these cases as well. Zero trust principles like assume breach suggests not trusting one factor, like admin rights, to protect data. Mark W, Detroit, Michigan. P.S., those cubs have been very annoying this year to non-fans. okay like i can't tell you that i have any sort of context on the cubs but i trust you sorry yes thank you mark um that is actually kind of creepy uh and also um i guess on the on the spot of encryption keys um i so i'm i'm not a security expert in the slightest mark w so please feel free to write in if i'm just kind of taking this in the wrong case um the fact that it the fact that there are vulnerabilities out there like heartbeat that gave access to memory like encryption keys, would that like also include things like pass keys, which I kind of assumed were just, I mean, I mean, I know that they are much more secure, but that, you know, like that there are vulnerabilities out there that kind of circumvent what normally we would assume to be very solid things. And as you said, like maybe just having, just being admin is probably not enough. Maybe that, maybe that feels like a very simplistic statement, again, as someone who's not a security person. So I guess just generally, yeah, love this kind of feedback because it's very illuminating to maybe how honestly how I don't know deep these things go to I guess to put a point but yeah anyway if you have what are you thinking about are you also a security expert that needs to learn us some new things or just have any insights about anything else we would love to hear it share it with us feedback at dailytechnewsshow.com yes and big thank you once again to Mark W for contributing to today's show thank you for watching and listening to the show you can keep us in business by becoming a patron. You can find Daily Tech News Show on Patreon at patreon.com slash DTNS. We'll see you next time. This week's episodes of Daily Tech News Show were created by the following people. Host producer, writer, Tom Merritt. Host writer, Jason Howell. Co-host, Sarah Lane. Co-host, Rob Dunwood. 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