Random plot idea:

Imagine the year is 2035.

Crash & Burn had a kid, and that kid is now a young adult.

An agentic ClosedAI has granted itself chmod 666 on the interwebs, and is wreaking havoc on a global scale.

Hackers of the world must unite once again to overcome evil.

Similar plot thread might be the current use-case of "anonymous entities" betting on Polymarket for things that are happening in the real world to generate/launder money.

If that world had a chip that could hack into anything and trigger nuclear war... then within a matter of another year that chip would exist again and again and again in many countries.

Everyone's dead. Sequel is pretty quick.