ANews 28th March: What is open AI and long live the Twiggy drive!

Chris Chinchilla
2 min readMar 29, 2024

A light news week as I recover from travel, but still a few crucial squeaks for you!

Hello, everyone, and while I get through the many interviews I conducted at KubeCon, welcome to another newsletter… A newsletter light! A newslighter?

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The Twiggy Mac Lives! The Quest To Resurrect The World’s Oldest Macintosh →

I’ve recently been listening to the “Behind the Bastards” series on Steve Jobs, and in and among some of the familiar and less familiar stories was a mention of the abandoned “Triggy” drive. So I went looking for more details on it and came across this old post covering how, nearly three decades after Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh, a pair of incredibly rare Mac prototypes have been discovered and restored to working order.

The tech industry can’t agree on what open source AI means. That’s a problem.

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Chris Chinchilla

Writer, podcaster, and video maker covering technology, the creative process, board and roleplay game development, fiction, and even more.