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. IconBarJune 2025 News Summary
Some things we noticed this month. What did you see? Live Coding with Gerph session on Sunday 29th June
If you want to learn from an expert doing some RISC OS coding, you are in for a treat this weekend! Orpheus Internet kills off Intel
If you have chatted to Richard Brown at recent RISC OS Shows you will know that he has been planning to migrate the servers Orpheus Internet uses from Intel Xeon systems to pure ARM. This has now been completed and the 2 Xeon boxes have been replaced by a cluster of 16/17 Raspberry Pi 5 boxes. June 2025 Rougol report - Hugo Tyson
The June 2025 talk featured ex-Acorn engineer Hugo Tyson talking about 'My Time at Acorn'. There was a nice gathering in the room and online. Rougol June 2025 meeting on monday with Hugo Tyson
The June 2025 Rougol meeting is on Monday 16th June. This months speaker is Hugo Tyson and his talk is called "Everything I did at Acorn". RISC OS OpenMoonshots 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. We're off to visit RON
ROOL is proud to be attending the RISC OS North show in Warrington, UK. As a part of our commitment to the future of RISC OS, we will be introducing our “Moonshot” projects by giving an overview of the motivations behind them, how we’re planning to drive them forwards, and how the community can get involved. Four Apps Come to the Fore For You
You may have blinked and missed a few application updates over the last few months as they scroll past on the Recent changes section of the home page. Don’t worry though! We’ve been keeping a watchful eye and, skipping over the smaller fixes for now, can bring you the main highlights. And maybe of interest....The RegisterAI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all
More fiction than scienceFeature IT consultancy Gartner predicts that more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 due to rising costs, unclear business value, or insufficient risk controls.Ex-NATO hacker: 'In the cyber world, there's no such thing as a ceasefire'
Watch out for supply chain hacks especiallyinterview The ceasefire between Iran and Israel may prevent the two countries from firing missiles at each other, but it won't carry any weight in cyberspace, according to former NATO hacker Candan Bolukbas.[an error occurred while processing this directive]How to get free software from yesteryear's IT crowd - trick code into thinking it's running on a rival PC
'This is not a copyright message'Before plug and play was blowing up Windows 98 on a Comdex stage, Windows 95 engineers were grappling with the technology - and on one fateful day they found some unusual text in the BIOS of several PCs that they had to work around.Anthropic chucks chump change at studies on job-killing tech
$61B business offers $10K-$50K grants to assess AI's job-market impactAI biz Anthropic is trying to recruit academics to find out exactly how much its technology could crater the jobs market.Crims are posing as insurance companies to steal health records and payment info
Taking advantage of the ridiculously complex US healthcare billing systemCriminals masquerading as insurers are tricking patients and healthcare providers into handing over medical records and bank account information via emails and text messages, according to the FBI.Stuff.tv Latest GadgetsThe best mid-range phones in 2025 reviewed and rated
On the search for the best mid-range smartphone below $600/£600? You're in the right place 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 Best power banks and portable chargers in 2025 for charging on the go
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Sometimes you just need a regular controller with your Switch, so we've picked out all the best Joy-Con alternatives Even Hades couldn't save Netflix Games. Is mobile gaming doomed?
Netflix Games is ditching a fifth of its mobile gaming catalogue. The future looks grim for the service - and for mobile gaming as a whole (external news feeds last updated at 10:30pm and took 4 seconds)
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