Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Guy Currier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, discuss whether it is nobler to build artificial intelligence (AI) models or simply invoke models that already exist. Then, they move on to the underappreciated need for faster networks in the age of AI.

Next, the gang turns its attention to the pressing need to migrate away from passwords to embrace passkeys, following the discovery of a cache of nearly one billion passwords stored in plain text. Finally, in a new edition of Byte Me, Ira Winkler addresses why the concept of "Thinking Like a Hacker" is wrong.