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Tech’s past meets its future: Hunter Irving (above), a former employee at Seattle’s Living Computers: Museum + Labs, scored a vintage Macintosh Plus computer from a thrift store. It wasn’t enough to just get the 1986 machine up and running — the software engineer managed to get on the internet and make it run modern websites, including ChatGPT. Read more. 

Tech Moves: iSpot names a new CTO; VMWare exec lands at Microsoft; and more key personnel changes.

Compass CEO Robert Reffkin offered a hot take on Zillow’s role in the future of how real estate property data is shared and served up to consumers. Read more.

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  • The phone-free policy at one Seattle middle school is already having a big impact on student attentiveness and face-to-face social interactions. (Cascade/PBS)

  • A gunshot detection pilot program in Tacoma, Wash., is raising concerns among residents who call it “dangerous” and “over-policing” of the community. (KING5)

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