Articles by Desire Athow, Managing Editor, TechRadar Pro

Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled in website builders and web hosting when DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.

Then followed a weekly tech column in a local business magazine in Mauritius, a late night tech radio programme called Clicplus and a freelancing gig at the now-defunct, Theinquirer, with the late Mike Magee as mentor. After an eight-year stint at ITProPortal.com, where he discovered the joys of global techfests and transformed the publication into one of the biggest tech B2B independent publishers, Désiré moved to TechRadar Pro where he has been the editor for nine years.

He has an affinity for anything hardware and staunchly refuses to stop writing reviews of obscure products or cover niche B2B software-as-a-service providers. He is an avid deal hunter and can be found lurking around on various deals forums.

Articles by: Desire Athow

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‘The question is no longer how much AI can produce, but how much of that output is genuinely usable’: How we use and pay for AI is undergoing a major shift

By Desire Athow Published 5 July 26

Exclusive Enterprises are shifting from capabilities and performance to prioritizing trust, accuracy, and measurable business outcomes.

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‘You fix it by making the secure option just as fast and frictionless as the risky one’: Practical advice on addressing shadow AI

By Desire Athow Published 4 July 26

Exclusive Workers clearly have an appetite for AI but personal accounts are still being used – approved tools need to be easy to reach and use.

$169 GMKtek N5095 mini PC is a brave but desperate attempt to revive a PC market decimated by AI and RAM greed

By Desire Athow Published 1 July 26

Popular mini PC vendor debuts a new GMKtec G5S model based on obsolete tech in a bid to reduce price.

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‘Stop calling it a hobby and start treating it as infrastructure’: EXANTE calls out the underfunding of widely used open source projects

By Desire Athow Published 30 June 26

Exclusive Despite the growing importance of open source software, most widely used projects are underfunded because they’re not glamorous enough.

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‘Never let the builder be its own reviewer’: The next challenge is trust, not speed of code generation

By Desire Athow Published 26 June 26

Exclusive AI coding platforms are becoming crucial infrastructure, but governance, verification and trust are now major challenges.

China’s Lineshine ‘came out of nowhere’ to grab title of most powerful computer in the known universe

By Desire Athow Published 25 June 26

"Intelligent splendor or brightness" uses Arm CPU only to unexpectedly surpass US rivals.

‘Networking becomes the make-or-break factor’: Orbital data centers reintroduce a challenge we’ve now fixed on land

By Desire Athow Published 25 June 26

Exclusive Space-bound data centers promise solar energy and scale as AI demands soar, but latency re-emerges as a major issue.

Broadcom and OpenAI debut Jalapeño Intelligence Processor, plot an Apple-like move to 'build the full stack'

By Desire Athow Published 24 June 26

The AI arms race just got a little bit spicier as Broadcom and OpenAI target Nvidia.

‘The defining divide in enterprise software over the next five years will be between companies that rent intelligence versus companies that own it’: Enterprise AI is becoming increasingly distributed

By Desire Athow Published 21 June 26

Exclusive InstaLILY CEO Amit Shah says future enterprise success relies on owning intelligence more than renting models from hyperscalers.

‘We have to make eSIMs as simple as possible’: Saily says removing friction is the next big battle for democratizing travel eSIMs

By Desire Athow Published 20 June 26

Exclusive Saily wants to democratize global connectivity by removing technical friction and simplifying user onboarding – travel apps could soon offer much more, too.

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Where are all 28TB external hard drives? Popular Seagate Expansion drives vanish from retailers' virtual shelves as component shortages hit consumers hard

By Desire Athow Published 18 June 26

Seriously, what happened to the high-capacity desktop drives?

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‘Companies that can serve both human and agent audiences will be the ones that survive’: WordPress VIP CTO spells out the future of GEO, SEO, and much more

By Desire Athow Published 16 June 26

Exclusive ‘For decades, we’ve all built websites for Google’: WordPress VIP’s CTO argues that publishers must optimize websites for both human readers and AI agents, without forgetting about trust.

‘A fully secured critical site in 2030 does not look like a single technology’: Why drone visibility and accountability are just as important as security controls

By Desire Athow Published 10 June 26

Exclusive Critical national infrastructure is at risk – layered detection, persistent visibility and clear accountability for all drones is now key.

Largest SSDs and hard drives of 2026

By Desire Athow Last updated 9 June 26

Updated We tracked down the largest SSD and hard drives to help you find the right storage solution for your needs and budget.

Best unlimited cloud storage deals (June 2026)

By Desire Athow Last updated 9 June 26

Updated We have brought together all the best unlimited cloud storage deals on one page

Best lifetime Cloud Storage deals (June 2026)

By Desire Athow Last updated 9 June 26

Updated Great if you don’t want to pay a subscription every month for cloud storage.

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‘Regulation by litigation is often overlooked as a regulatory tool’: Just how much responsibility should AI companies have on their users’ wellbeing?

By Desire Athow Published 8 June 26

Exclusive AI chatbots have been likened to social media, leading to addiction and potentially worse. I explore how they could be regulated.

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‘Access to education across different cultures and languages needs to be improved’: IEEE award winner’s best work came from identifying issues, and fixing them

By Desire Athow Published 7 June 26

Exclusive Karen Panetta’s uses technology to solve the world’s most pressing problems – more citizens need access to STEM education and AI training.

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‘Chasing every model release is a fool's errand and a fast track to AI fatigue inside your organisation’: GoodData.AI CTO says businesses should focus on automation use cases over every single new release

By Desire Athow Published 6 June 26

Exclusive GoodData.AI CTO Peter Fedorocko says AI is an efficiency amplifier that won't replace humans, but businesses must focus on real automation use cases.

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‘Our hardware is designed to be picked up and shaken about’: Aquark Technologies takes quantum sensing outside of the lab as a viable GNSS alternative

By Desire Athow Published 5 June 26

Exclusive Aquark Technologies is making quantum sensing portable – cold-atom hardware will offer high-precision, resilient alternatives to vulnerable GNSS.

Exactly 17 years ago, the first Nvidia-powered Windows laptop made its debut at Computex — before RTX Spark laptops, Mobinnova was a flop that barely anyone remembered

By Desire Athow Published 2 June 26

For Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s charismatic CEO, it was probably a deja-vù when he walked on the stage at Computex 2026 for the keynote

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‘Our success with becoming… unicorns… isn't an accident – it’s the result of a 15-year bet on digital infrastructure and talent’: The story behind how Lithuania is perfectly aligned to capitalize on an emerging space economy

By Desire Athow Published 31 May 26

Exclusive Lithuania is using its strong digital infrastructure and experience to become a serious player in the emerging LEO satellite economy.

‘The system as a whole hasn’t developed a consistent, shared understanding at the same rate as the infrastructure is being deployed’: Is AI expanding beyond what we can manage today?

By Desire Athow Published 30 May 26

Exclusive Rapid AI growth has caused a dangerous misalignment between infrastructure deployment and workforce expertise – the solutions are standardization and education.

‘The very rapid development of AI/ML will also have a profound impact on the 6G design’: AI will be responsible for both creating more network traffic and strengthening network performance

By Desire Athow Published 30 May 26

Exclusive Ericsson engineers explain why AI will both put 6G networks under strain and strengthen their performance at the same time, emphasizing the importance of global cooperation.

‘The moment infrastructure moves to orbit, that assumption disappears’: Layered access control, physical redundancy and rapid component replacement are major orbital challenges

By Desire Athow Published 30 May 26

Exclusive Hyperscalers are considering sending AI compute into orbit, but experts warn it introduces severe operational risks that could lead to months-long outages.

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