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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Grab 1.54TB free cloud storage for life — but you will need to sign up to 43 services

By Desire Athow Published 31 July 26

Updated No strings attached, but you will need to subscribe to and maintain more than 40 services.

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‘Identifying vulnerabilities is no longer enough’: Companies need to focus on fixing exploitable vulnerabilities, not discovering as many as possible, says Checkmarx CEO

By Desire Athow Published 30 July 26

Exclusive AppSec must shift from finding every single vulnerability to prioritizing exploitable risks, and human expertise is in hot demand.

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‘We are the reason that data centers get built and expanded’: It’s not about whether we need them, but it’s about where we build them, IDCA founder and CEO says

By Desire Athow Published 29 July 26

Exclusive We are responsible for creating data center demand – we should accept some of the consequences. But hyperscalers have responsibilities, too.

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‘Construction sites are probably one of the hardest environments you could ask an autonomous system to operate in’: Are autonomy and robotics gaining momentum in the industry?

By Desire Athow Published 29 July 26

Exclusive Automation has gotten so good within fixed parameters – construction is a whole new ball game, but with major potential benefits.

‘Those two jobs need different physics’: Rebellions CEO says training and inference need different chips

By Desire Athow Published 28 July 26

Exclusive Rebellions says we’re starting to see the emergence of an inference chip market – could this be when AI starts to become truly efficient?

‘The only losers from this will be Cloudflare’s customers. Mainly, publishers’: What businesses can do as Cloudflare readies to categorize AI traffic

By Desire Athow Last updated 28 July 26

Exclusive Mismatches in how AI traffic gets categorized could mean you end up accidentally blocking it all – how can you find the right balance?

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Microsoft Office Home and Business 2024 vs Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2024: What are the differences?

By Desire Athow Published 23 July 26

‘A candidate who was hostile from day one never produces that baseline’: Nation states spies applying for legit jobs are hard to spot

By Desire Athow Published 15 July 26

Exclusive Nation state spies are using AI to create fake identities and realistic job applications, infiltrating organizations to steal intelligence.

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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.

‘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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