News Headlines from other RISC OS Portalscsa.announceSome news summaries maybe truncated. This is a limitation with GoogleGroups RSS feed and beyond our control unfortunately. IconBarThe 2025 London Show is less than 3 weeks away...
It's now less than 3 weeks to go until the 2025 London Show..... WROCC October 2025 meeting - R-Comp and ROD Show teaser
Wakefield's October speaker was Andrew Rawnsley from R-Comp, giving us some updates and teasers for the London Show (in case you need more reasons to attend the Show!) WROCC October 2025 talk on Wednesday - R-Comp
The October 2025 WROCC talk is on Wednesday 1st October and starts at at 7.45pm on Zoom. September 2025 News Summary
Some things we noticed this month. What did you see? September developer 'fireside' chat on saturday night
The nights are definitely drawing in now. So what better way to spend Saturday night than at next 'fireside' chat on saturday night (20th September). As usual, 7:30pm UK time kick-off and the event is on Zoom. Stay for as long or as short a time as you like. RISC OS OpenStreaming Video in 1994?
In 1994, Acorn Computers, through its Online Media division, played a central role in one of the earliest practical demonstrations of video-on-demand over a broadband network. The Cambridge (UK) Digital Interactive Television Trial, developed in collaboration with Anglia Television, Cambridge Cable (now Virgin Media), and Advanced Telecommunication Modules Ltd (ATML), anticipated many of the features that would later become standard in streaming media. Pi memory freed from its 32 bit shackles
The period between stable releases is the perfect time to try out some experimental changes to RISC OS. If you’ve bought one of the top-of-the-range Raspberry Pi 4’s with 4GB or 8GB of RAM the good news is that that extra memory can now be unlocked by dropping the Beta RPi ROM (8GB Support) onto your SD card. Moonshots Rocket is Fuelling Up
Back in March the Moonshots Initiative outlined an ambitious plan to migrate the source code of RISC OS away from hand crafted assembler to reach a 64-bit destination before all the 32-bit chips run out. Already the initiative has generated a number of people asking to be involved, promising leads in the areas of focus, and we’re grateful to have received some financial donations from the community already. Set sail for the RISC OS eXperience
Why not pop along to the Big Ben Club’s annual day in the Netherlands?The show is on the 10th May 2025 from 10am to 4pm and is located in Koog aan de Zann. It’s easy to reach being only a short distance north of Amsterdam by car, public transport, or even by bicycle.RISC OS Open will be travelling to the Netherlands, equivalent to 0.106% of the distance to the moon, and expanding on 2022’s theatre topic of the path to 64 bit. "Moonshots" Initiative to Secure the Future of the OS
Cambridge, UK - 28-Mar-2025 - RISC OS Open Limited (ROOL) is calling on the global technology community to support a bold new initiative to secure the long-term future of RISC OS. The company today announced the launch of its Moonshots programme – a strategic shift away from incremental development, towards large-scale engineering efforts aimed at modernising the operating system for next-generation Arm architectures.RISC OS, originally developed alongside the first Arm chips in Cambridge, remains a uniquely simple and efficient desktop operating system. It has found renewed interest in recent years thanks to its availability on the Raspberry Pi and its open-source licensing model. However, the platform now faces an existential challenge. And maybe of interest....The RegisterInside the belly of the beast: A technical walk through Intel's 18A production facility at Fab52
Now if Lip Bu Tan can just find a willing customerdeep dive Not long after rejoining Intel in 2021, former CEO Pat Gelsinger announced an ambitious plan to reinvent the chipmaker as a contract semiconductor manufacturing powerhouse.Weird ideas welcome: VC fund looking to make science fiction factual
Nuclear power is getting hot, but don't hold your breath for everlasting batteriesA venture capital fund is looking for ideas that are out of bounds for traditional investors, seeding technology that may only come to fruition decades down the line, but where researchers can show real results in the lab.[an error occurred while processing this directive]Who gets a Mac at work? Here's how companies decide
You can't always get what you wantMost corporate laptop fleets consist primarily of PCs. However, there's always a contingent of users who beg for Macs. Deciding who gets a Mac in your organization involves balancing IT's need for simplicity, finance's requirement to keep costs under control, and users' desire to work with their preferred tools.Chinese phishing kit helps scammers who send fake texts impersonate TikTok, Coinbase, others
Researchers tracking 2,158 domains hosting YYlaiyu phishing pagesExclusive A Chinese-developed phishing kit hosted on thousands of domains and boasting 97 different brands to make criminals' scams look more believable is driving a surge in financial fraud around the globe, according to security researchers.OpenAI GPT-5: great taste, less filling, now with 30% less bias
AI model maker touts effort to depoliticize its productOpenAI says GPT-5 has 30 percent less political bias than its prior AI models.Stuff.tv Latest GadgetsI became a better builder at Lego House's epic Masters Academy sessions - and you can too!
Inspired by the Lego Masters TV show, the Masters Academy is a new attraction at Lego House where you can learn to become a better builder! Best gaming headsets in 2025 reviewed and rated
Gain the edge in multiplayer gaming or immerse yourself in a solitary experience with the best wired and wireless gaming headsets Why I think games should be less difficult and more fun
I'm no stranger to difficult videogames but I'm increasingly choosing to press X to not continue iPadOS 26.1 brings back Slide Over. Good. Now Apple needs to fix Liquid Glass
The iPad's hovering multitasking window rises from the dead in iPadOS 26.1. Proof Apple's listening? Maybe. But someone still needs to prise the transparency slider from the company's hands Google explains the secret weapon behind the Pixel 10 Pro Fold’s upgrades
The gearless hinge within the Pixel 10 Fold Pro has enabled all manner of improvements, Google explains (external news feeds last updated at 10:30pm and took 3 seconds)
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