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• Latest Intel chips still can't match ARM for power saving - Intel issued a "correction" Thursday regarding comments one of its executives made earlier this week slamming the iPhone as incapable of working correctly with the internet.
  Among other things, the executives accused ARM chips of being unable to "handle the internet" and singled out the iPhone as an example of a smart phone that could be really great if it used one of Intel's low-power x86 architecture processors, known as Atom.
• Major new RISC OS application in development - Long-term RISC OS devotee Paul Vigay has recently announced a new application he's currently working on. With a development version to be demonstrated at the forthcoming RISC OS SE Show, WebAnim8r is a powerful and comprehensive application for creating animations and graphics suitable for including on websites and presentations.
  A flexible built-in scripting language allows the user to create complex designs with the aid of simple keywords, or fall back on the intuitive user interface.

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• WROCC Newsletter Volume 42:1 reviewed - The delayed April release of WROCC magazine has now been sent out to all members. This is the monthly club 'mini' magazine which all members receive as one of the club benefits.
• How fast is Fast? - In a week's time, you will be at the London Show (you know it makes sense). Chris Hall will be exhibiting and he has kindly written us an exclusive preview on the speed comparisons he has been running and will be showing you.
• Rougol October 2024 meeting on monday - The October 2024 Rougol meeting is on Monday 21th October. No speaker has yet been announced.
• It's less than 2 weeks to go until the London show... - It's now less than 2 weeks to go until the return of the London Show.....
• October developer 'fireside' chat on saturday night - The next 'fireside' chat is on 12th October (this saturday). It starts at 7:30pm UK time and the event is on Zoom. Stay for as long or as short a time as you like.

RISC OS Open

• A metric tonne of RISC OS improvements - This is one for the all developers out there! We love celebrating significant anniversaries and milestones, so it didn’t escape our notice that the source code to RISC OS has just reached one thousand accepted merge requests since being migrated to be held in Git back in 2019.
• An ePic reshuffle - ePic is a single SD card combining both the official RISC OS Pi release plus a huge bundle of commercial applications (previously called NutPi) totalling almost £600, had they each been bought individually.
• Euro vision of RISC OS welcomes all! - Now that the Eurovision contest is over for this year, the next big euro vision to eXperience is the one organised by the Big Ben Club at their annual day.
• RISC OS 5.30 now available - It feels like more than a year since doing the code reviews of which hardware platforms might meet the stable release criteria, attaining an even numbered long-term-supported version. So without further ado we’re proud to announce RISC OS 5.30 is now available for the seven platforms that met or exceeded benchmark.
• Five hundred and thirty reasons to visit Bradford - This year’s show organised by WROCC is once again taking place in the Cedar Court Hotel in Bradford on Saturday 27th April from 10:30am to 4:30pm. The venue has convenient road and rail access – see the Google map for directions.Worth a visitWhether you’re travelling from La Rochelle (France), Mannheim (Germany), Svenstrup (Denmark), or even Hovden (Norway), that 530 mile trip is sure to be worth making – drop by the RISC OS Open stand to discuss the latest developments in RISC OS and share your thoughts for the future with us.Over in the show theatre a number of talks will be taking place during the day, including RISC OS Open.