Techstrong Gang

Alan, Mike, Sulagna and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the claims being made by DeepSeek AI concerning a new way to dramatically lower the cost of training large language models (LLMs).
Then the gang turns its attention to Data Privacy Day before digging into how vertical farming might transform the way we get our food.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Sulagna and special guests Chris Blask and Tracy Ragan dive into the implications recent executive orders issued by President Trump will have on cybersecurity before discussing whether sanctions are an effective method for punishing cybercriminals.
Then, the gang turns its attention to the latest cloud outage, this time involving the Bitbucket continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) service provided by Atlassian.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Anne Ahola Ward and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the trouble with software integration following some new research from The Futurum Group.
Then, the gang turns its attention to how data science and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming product development before discussing the latest salvos in the AI smartphone wars between Samsung and Apple.

Mike, Jon, Sulagna and special guests John Willis and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the executive order regarding artificial intelligence (AI) issued by the Trump administration and what a $500 billion Stargate initiative might yield.
Then, the gang turns its attention to a CEO survey conducted by The Futurum Group that finds most are pursuing a more deliberate approach to investing in AI before discussing the latest advances in AI coding tools.

In today’s Techstrong Gang, we discuss the open warfare in the WordPress community and the possibility of a fork of the CMS that runs more than 40% of websites. Then, we debate whether apathy has taken hold regarding cyber breaches and explore if Allstate has been spying on drivers without permission. How do you feel about that?

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, discuss the hiring outlook for IT professionals in 2025.
Then, the gang debates the degree to which an energy shortage might curtail artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions before delving into how cloud computing is improving sustainability.

Mike, Mitch and special guests Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visual Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into what less cybersecurity training is being provided to developers even as DevSecOps progress continues to be made before discussing the trouble with patch management.
Then the gang turns its attention to what alternative cloud service providers are not gaining as much traction as they should.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Anne Ahola Ward discuss the likelihood that an FTC rule requiring providers of applications and services to make cancellations simple will be enacted later this year.
Then, the gang turns its attention to AI advances being made in healthcare and, finally, the implications of an FBI effort to delete files from computers infected with malware.

Mike, Jon and special guest Lisa Martin, CMO advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the merit and potential impact of a TikTok ban.
Then, the gang turns its attention to robotics research and development underway at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) before providing a retrospective on CES.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guest Chris Blask divulge the backstory of the DevOps Dozen 2025 awards presented at the Predict conference yesterday. They also dive into the thought process behind the new Inevitability Curve video interview series hosted by Chris.
Then, the gang turns its attention to the fact that the pace of adoption for artificial intelligence (AI) is slower than anticipated, yet reliance on AI across business workflows is all but, well, inevitable.