Wayne Williams

Wayne Williams

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Wayne Williams is a freelancer writing news for TechRadar Pro. He has been writing about computers, technology, and the web for 30 years. In that time he wrote for most of the UK’s PC magazines, and launched, edited and published a number of them too.

Articles by: Wayne Williams

Lock on Laptop Screen

UK startup puts physical disconnect 'switch' in its cloud storage it claims can mitigate ransomware attacks - but will that be enough?

By Wayne Williams published

Offline-first storage aims to protect valuable data from ransomware, but will enterprises adopt this unusual solution?

ASRock X870 LiveMixer WiFi motherboard

You can plug 25 USB devices into this ASRock ATX motherboard - shame 10 of them are USB 2.0, an abomination in 2025

By Wayne Williams published

ASRock X870 LiveMixer WiFi motherboard arrives with dual USB4 support and 25 USB ports - although ten of those are USB 2.0.

US PC shipments fall as firms upgrade ahead of Windows 10 End of Life deadline – but doubts remain over AI use

By Wayne Williams published

US PC shipments slip in Q2 2025 year on year as vendors worked through inventory built up to avoid tariff exposure.

hacker targeting a PC

Microsoft and Cloudflare jointly take down phishing network that stole thousands of Microsoft 365 credentials

By Wayne Williams published

Microsoft and Cloudflare dismantle phishing network that stole thousands of Microsoft 365 credentials using fake login pages and subscription kits.

Adata SD820 and SC735 external SSDs

Adata's latest SSDs highlight a growing trend in mobile storage but can't hide a rather sobering reality

By Wayne Williams published

Adata unveils SD820 and SC735 portable SSDs designed for creators and travelers who need fast external storage.

A profile of a human brain against a digital background.

Researchers warn that skill erosion caused by AI could have a devastating and lasting impact on businesses - but it may already be too late

By Desire Athow published

Esko Penttinen, Associate Professor, and Joona Ruissalo, Post-doctoral researcher at Aalto University, tell us about the risks of skill erosion, and why AI makes the problem more urgent.

Nvidia Rubin CPX GPU

'Could this be the RTX 6090': Tech analyst reckons Nvidia's just-announced AI GPU hides a tantalizing secret that could throw down a massive gauntlet to AMD

By Wayne Williams published

Nvidia’s Rubin CPX announcement fuels theories about a hidden connection to RTX 6090.

Schematic of DNA cassette tape and DNA cassette tape drive

Chinese scientists want to build a 'forever' DNA tape with a 80 million DVDs storage capacity - but it will take forever to write at the current rate

By Wayne Williams published

Chinese scientists outline DNA cassette tape concept that could preserve digital data for centuries, but the writing process is glacially slow today.

Omega - quantum photonic chipset purpose-built for utility-scale quantum computing.

PsiQuantum plans to build world’s first large scale fault tolerant million qubit quantum computers for solving some of the world’s most complex scientific problems

By Wayne Williams published

PsiQuantum raises $1 billion to accelerate development of million qubit quantum computers and begin building utility scale systems in Australia and the US.

A person holding out their hand with a digital AI symbol.

Researchers find a way to address the problem of AI forgetting how to behave safely

By Wayne Williams published

Open-source AI used on phones and in cars can lose their safeguards, but university scientists find retraining these reduced models restores the protections.

FuriosaAI's RNGD

South Korean startup, which walked away from Meta's $800M acquisition bid, partnered with OpenAI to demonstrate the future of sustainable enterprise AI without GPUs

By Wayne Williams published

FuriosaAI, which rejected Meta’s $800 million buyout offer, presented new sustainable AI demo with OpenAI in Seoul.

SK Hynix HBM4

SK Hynix's HBM4 will be the first out of the gate for Nvidia's Rubin AI GPU, leaving Samsung and Micron in its wake

By Wayne Williams published

SK Hynix becomes the first company to finish developing HBM4 memory and announces plans for mass production ahead of Samsung and Micron.

Digital Entertainment and Streaming Broadcast Technology Art 3D Render

Researchers uncover huge IPTV piracy network spanning 1,000 domains and 10,000 IP addresses - here's what you need to know

By Wayne Williams published

IPTV piracy network traced by researchers has been running for years across 1,000 domains and 10,000 IPs.

Abstract Futuristic Red Shinny Digital Hud Square Elements Mosaic Grid Map Of China Flat Screen With Horizontal Light

China launches probes into U.S. chip restrictions, citing discrimination and dumping concerns

By Wayne Williams published

Beijing launches anti-discrimination and dumping probes into U.S. chip trade restrictions.

Sam Altman of OpenAI

OpenAI bets $300 billion on Oracle contract to power artificial intelligence expansion despite ongoing losses

By Wayne Williams published

OpenAI signs $300 billion deal with Oracle to secure computing power over five years starting in 2027.

International Space Station in Earth's orbit

One small step for servers, one giant leap for Axiom Space and IBM Red Hat as prototype data center reaches the International Space Station

By Wayne Williams published

Red Hat and Axiom sent a prototype data center to the International Space Station to test whether terrestrial computing systems can operate in orbit.

M&S store

M&S chief digital and technology officer steps down in wake of damaging cyberattack

By Wayne Williams published

M&S says its chief digital and technology officer is taking a break following damaging cyberattack forced widespread operational disruption earlier this year.

ASML High NA EUV

ASML invests $1.5 billion in OpenAI’s European rival Mistral AI to accelerate future chip design

By Wayne Williams published

ASML takes 11% stake in Mistral AI through €1.3 billion funding round to integrate advanced AI into its chip equipment design and operations.

DDoS attack

Another massive DDoS attack that reached 1.5 Bpps has been thwarted

By Wayne Williams published

A DDoS mitigation vendor was hit by 1.5 billion packet per second flood traced to compromised IoT and MikroTik routers.

Flag of Vietnam on binary code

Vietnam creditors hit by cyberattack - sensitive data at risk

By Wayne Williams published

Vietnam confirms cyberattack on credit data center as authorities investigate potential personal data theft.

AI brain coming out of laptop screen

'The models are really devious': Sam Altman's hardware chief says OpenAI wants kill switches built into hardware in case things go wrong

By Wayne Williams published

OpenAI hardware leader warns that devious AI models require real time hardware kill switches and deeper safeguards built directly into chips.

Issy les Moulineaux, France - January 2020 : Microsoft France headquarters entrance in Issy les Moulineaux near Paris

Microsoft wants to ban pre-owned software, cheap Office keys and Windows 11 serials but is that a lost battle already?

By Wayne Williams published

Microsoft faces appeal tribunal in long-running dispute with ValueLicensing over the resale of Windows and Office licenses.

Seagate

Seagate invests $135 million in its European photonic center to deliver 100TB hard drives by 2030

By Wayne Williams published

Seagate commits £115 million to Northern Ireland research facility aiming to advance Mozaic and photonics technology with a focus on developing 100TB hard drives.

NVIDIA COMPUTEX KEYNOTE

This is probably the most important graph of 2025 so far and shows how Nvidia's fortunes are changing for the worse

By Wayne Williams published

Nvidia data center compute revenue falls for the first time in a decade despite record overall earnings and rising networking sales in fiscal 2026 results.

Nvidia Rubin CPX GPU

Nvidia has launched a GPU with 128GB of GDDR7 RAM but yeah, there's no way it will sell one to us to run games

By Wayne Williams published

Nvidia reveals Rubin CPX GPU for enterprise AI, delivering 30 petaFLOPs compute and 128GB GDDR7 memory.

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