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Google man drags Emacs into the 1990s • The Register : "Software developer and Google employee Daniel Colascione has cooked up what he calls “Buttery smooth Emacs” by adding rendering code to the venerable text editor that does away with long-standing flickering and resizing issues." News for nerds, stuff that matters.

Teardown finds removable SSD in 13" MacBook Pro without Touch Bar Though not designed for easy-access SSD swapping, the removable module opens the door to aftermarket storage expansion option. The design moves away from Apple's latest thin-and-light, the 12-inch MacBook with Retina display, which relies on flash memory permanently affixed to the logic board. Although we're almost at the place where the SDHD card slot can be used as storage expansion.

Official Apple images show new MacBook Pro with OLED 'Magic Toolbar,' Touch ID, new speaker design : "Multiple pieces of evidence of Apple's anticipated "Magic Toolbar" have been discovered in macOS 10.12.1, including a virtual keyboard system that lacks function keys. It's believed that the new OLED touch bar will dynamically change its appearance and present virtual buttons to users based on the app or task at hand. " Touch my id but not my ego.

New Apple event invite recalls original Macintosh, iMac introductions : "The color-splashed invite sent out to the press on Wednesday for the forthcoming Oct. 27 Apple release event uses language that Apple has used before in two other groundbreaking product debuts." Here's to hopin'

Google: We look forward to running non-Intel processors in our cloud • The Register : "Hyper-scale companies like Google and Facebook publish their server specifications so Asian hardware manufacturers can mass produce them on the cheap, relatively speaking. That way, cloud giants get to buy exactly what they want without having to negotiate deals with traditional server vendors like Hewlett Packard Enterprise." I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice queen.

Microsoft has created its own FreeBSD image. Repeat. Microsoft has created its own FreeBSD image • The Register : "Microsoft has created its own cut of FreeBSD 10.3 in order to make the OS available and supported in Azure." Embrace and extend into the cloud...

Breaking compression, one year at a time • The Register : "It turns out that you really shouldn't enable compression on folders in which you intend to dump gigantic VMs. It leads to interesting scenarios where, for example, attempting to copy over files simply stops at some arbitrary point and neither fails nor proceeds." In retrospect, what seemed like a great idea was an incredibly bad idea. Hindsight, 20/20.

It came from Redmond: Windows Server 2016 could rattle the competition | Ars Technica : "Nano Server is the latest evolution of the slimmed-down Windows Server, primed for both containerized cloud deployment and hands-off on-premises services. It's not so much a separate product per se; think of it as a deployment option." Microsoft grows down, not up.

Nvidia working with Apple on graphics for 'revolutionary' new Mac products : "A series of new available positions advertised by Nvidia seek software engineers for the company's Mac graphics drivers team. Qualified applicants should have experience with Apple's Metal cross-platform application programming interface, featured on new Macs as well as iOS devices." That's what I'm talking' about Willis!

10nm chip foundry process coming to Apple partner TSMC ahead of Intel : "Apple chip foundry TSMC has given hints for its future road map, and claims that it will start mass producing 10nm chips before the end of 2016, nearly a year ahead of Intel." Small is the new big.