News 28th March: What is open AI and long live the Twiggy drive!
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.
I saw this topic come up a lot at FOSDEM, and the article mentions some of the presenters at FOSDEM, so maybe the writer was attending. The topic continued at KubeCon. Why does it matter? Well, it matters to people who care about open source. The new wave of AI tools works very differently and breaks many existing definitions of “open.” So naturally, people want to start deciding what “open” means regarding AI tools.
