Articles by Wayne Williams, Editor

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

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'It just vanished': Millions at risk as Android trojans use devious trick to 'magically' disappear once installed

By Wayne Williams published 7 May 26

Android banking trojans vanish from app drawers and secretly capture login credentials while streaming live device screens to remote attackers.

'Not just an aircraft': US Navy MQ-25 Stingray drone hit a major milestone with maiden flight — largest US UAV ever built set to become world's first autonomous tanker to take flight from an aircraft carrier and maybe feature in a Top Gun movie one day

By Wayne Williams published 6 May 26

US Navy’s massive MQ-25 Stingray tanker drone completes maiden flight, marking critical progress toward autonomous carrier refueling.

Pentagon staff embracing vibe coding as military personnel deploy over 20,000 AI agents per week since launch — autonomous tools handling 25,000 sessions per day on average to improve efficiency by eliminating "boring" staff work and manual data entry

By Wayne Williams published 4 May 26

Pentagon personnel rapidly adopt vibe-coding tools as more than 100,000 AI agents are created to automate routine work and eliminate manual data entry across unclassified networks.

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The US just found millions of tons of lithium in Appalachia, enough for 500 billion cellphones — and experts say it could power the next century of American tech and weaken China's grip on batteries

By Wayne Williams published 3 May 26

The U.S. finds huge lithium reserves in Appalachia that could supply billions of phones and reduce America's reliance on China.

'A dream technology': Japanese scientists might have unlocked the next generation of solar panels that stay cooler and last longer thanks to "spin-flip" material that achieves 130% energy conversion efficiency — and here's how it works

By Wayne Williams published 3 May 26

Japanese scientists create new spin-flip material that could boost solar panel efficiency by up to 130%.

'Build AI that can accurately represent the full complexity of biology': Mark Zuckerberg wants to cure all diseases but needs far more data to deliver a digital twin of human cells—As genetic data becomes the next frontier, will you trust him with yours?

By Wayne Williams published 2 May 26

Mark Zuckerberg backs $500 million push to build AI models of human cells as part of long-term effort to cure disease.

WordPress Markdown for Agents tool saves electricity

This free WordPress tool could save businesses billions every year by slashing the AI tokens needed to read the web — saving enough electricity to power the entire USA for 24 hours

By Wayne Williams published 2 May 26

Free WordPress plugin could slash AI web traffic data use enough to rival daily USA electricity consumption if widely adopted.

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'Exactly one photon': European scientists have built the first block of a truly unhackable global quantum internet that can run on existing fiber networks — breaking what was once thought to be an impossible barrier to transmit identical light particles

By Wayne Williams published 1 May 26

Scientists break the telecom wavelength barrier that previously blocked long distance quantum communication over existing optical fiber infrastructure.

'Nearly 80 times cheaper than lithium': China is working on ultra affordable iron battery that can run 16 years without degrading — using one of the most abundant elements on Earth to store power and a water-based electrolyte system that cannot explode

By Wayne Williams published 1 May 26

New Chinese iron battery design could deliver decade-long lifespan while cutting reliance on expensive lithium.

'A power bank for the AI era': China begins testing miniature, truck-mounted 10MW nuclear reactor designed to sustain massive data centers for decades without refueling while promising to make traditional dirty coal and diesel generators entirely obsolete

By Wayne Williams published 30 April 26

Truck-mounted nuclear ‘power bank’ enters testing as China explores portable reactors capable of running AI data centers.

Chuwi surprises the market with Lunar Lake Intel Core Ultra 5 laptop — sub-1kg device boasts 'all-day battery life', 2.8K display, and 2-megapixel camera, but will its $800 price tag prove to be its Achilles' heel

By Wayne Williams published 30 April 26

Chuwi surprises with new CoreBook Air laptop powered by Intel Core Ultra 226V processor delivering up to 97 TOPS of AI performance.

'The storm is here': Why you and your neighbors may be paying multibillion-dollar bill for AI data centers right now — but that may not last long as more US states join revolt against unjust 'socialist' approach to electricity bills

By Desire Athow published 29 April 26

Exclusive The hidden cost of AI: How data centers are driving electricity prices higher across multiple states, affecting you and your neighbors.

'Battery-free, quiet, and inherently private' — These 3D-printed metal tags could change home and office tracking, turning penny-sized discs into smart devices using ultrasonic tech for maintenance-free monitoring without charging

By Wayne Williams published 28 April 26

Researchers at Georgia Tech develop battery-free 3D-printed metal tags for smart tracking that use ultrasonic sound to record everyday actions.

TEGNet can design thermoelectric generators

'10,000 times faster than a human scientist' — New AI tool designed ultra-efficient heat-to-electricity generators at lightning speed, a breakthrough that could slash the cost of energy harvesters and help enable cheaper, high-performance home heat pumps

By Wayne Williams published 28 April 26

New AI-designed thermoelectric generators reach 9.3% efficiency and could make waste heat easier to harvest.

'The death of Top Gun' — Ukraine becomes the first to scale remotely operated interceptors that can score aerial kills from "thousands of kilometers" away while staying in bunkers as era of pilotless dogfighting and zero crew casualties takes to the sky

By Wayne Williams published 27 April 26

Ukraine demonstrates interceptor drones controlled from distant bunkers capable of destroying aerial targets far beyond traditional engagement ranges.

Neurodivergent teacher uses dyscalculia "superpower" to recreate full-scale, whale-sized replica of world's first programmable digital computer — 21st-century ENIAC used almost 3,000 sq ft of cardboard and NASA's Artemis II may be his next big challenge

By Wayne Williams published 27 April 26

Arizona students construct full-scale ENIAC replica, turning classroom into a whale-sized tribute to early computing history.

"Hackers can now launch massive 2Tbps attacks": Report reveals staggering 10x growth in botnet size with record-breaking DDoS incidents peaking for 40 minutes as multi-vector attacks grow in complexity and become harder to dismantle

By Wayne Williams published 23 April 26

Largest botnet grows tenfold in a year as sustained 2Tbps attack signals growing scale of modern DDoS campaigns.

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"Push them to the limit": MIT researchers almost double SSD performance 'for free' but only for data centers

By Wayne Williams published 23 April 26

MIT software boosts SSD speeds by shifting data between drives in large storage clusters, but it's only for use in data centers.

AeroVironment LOCUST laser counter-drone system

The $5 Drone Killer: The Navy’s new 20kW LOCUST laser just proved its "unlimited magazine depth" on the USS George H.W. Bush — it neutralized multiple UAVs for a fraction of the cost of a missile, protecting the fleet from cheap enemy drone swarms

By Wayne Williams published 22 April 26

New low-cost carrier-based laser system shows promise for defending US warships against drone threats, at $5 a pop.

"SIM-Farm-as-a-Service": How a Belarus-based network hijacked UK and US telcos to enable global fraud

By Wayne Williams published 22 April 26

Investigation maps 94 SIM farm deployments connected to 35 mobile carriers including major UK and US networks.

"Inference requires infrastructure that is closer to users and more energy-efficient": Antimatter debuts global AI network built to bypass grid bottleneck with a 400,000 GPU roll out by 2030 across 1000 data centers

By Wayne Williams published 22 April 26

Antimatter targets growing inference demand with global rollout of modular data centers designed to operate where electricity supply is already available.

"The way we move light": Tiny optical chips smaller than a grain of salt could save data centers billions

By Wayne Williams published 22 April 26

New beam-steering chip smaller than a grain of salt could cut hardware demands in quantum computing and high-performance data centers.

Pulsar Fusion Sunbird first plasma with Krypton

"The future of space will look less like single-use expeditionary missions and more like a transport network": Pulsar Fusion's quest to build a nuclear fusion exhaust system for deep-space travel hits "first plasma" milestone

By Desire Athow published 22 April 26

Exclusive Following a "first plasma" milestone, Pulsar Fusion outlines its ambitious plans for a nuclear fusion exhaust system for deep-space travel.

Researchers use DESI’s huge 3D map to study dark energy. Earth is at the center of this map, and every point is a galaxy

"5,000 tiny robot arms": How a humble telescope created the largest 3D map of the universe to help unlock dark energy's secrets

By Wayne Williams published 21 April 26

The DESI project recorded data from 47 million galaxies and quasars and built a 3D map of the universe to help unlock dark energy's secrets.

“Essentially invisible:” How hackers 'trojan-horsed' QEMU virtual machines to bypass security and drop ransomware

By Wayne Williams published 20 April 26

Hackers hide ransomware tools inside virtual machines using QEMU, allowing attacks to bypass security controls and remain largely invisible.

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