About this episode

The episode discusses a data breach affecting schools, Nintendo's price increase for the Switch 2, and Bumble's new matching feature.

-ShinyHunters, the extortion group that infiltrated cloud-based educational tech provider Instructure, claims to have stolen data from 8,809 schools around the world. -Nintendo is raising the price of its Switch 2 by $50 to $500 in the US as it faces higher memory costs and US tariffs. -According to an Axios report, rather than asking users to swipe right or left on a profile to confirm their interest or disinterest in a potential match, the dating app is replacing it with something else. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Topics covered

• data breach
• gaming
• pricing
• dating apps
• technology news

Keywords

• Instructure
• ShinyHunters
• Nintendo
• Switch 2
• Bumble
• data breach
• pricing
• dating apps

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Instructure, ShinyHunters, Nintendo, Bumble, Axios

Products: Switch 2

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