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

Should Facebook's Meta buy Cerebras and Groq to make Llama the Android of LLMs? I think it totally makes sense

By Wayne Williams published 15 May 25

Meta should buy Groq and Cerebras to secure Llama’s open AI future.

12 Nvidia RTX 5090 GPUs will take 14 days to crack a complex 6-character password but I don't think you should care

By Wayne Williams published 15 May 25

Short passwords are no match for modern GPUs, which can try billions of combinations per second.

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I sat down with two cooling experts to find out what AI's biggest problem is in the data center

By Wayne Williams published 14 May 25

Cooling crisis looms as AI data centers outgrow traditional air systems.

Square launches new portable point-of-sale handheld device that's barely bigger than a smartphone and there's even a 16-megapixel camera

By Wayne Williams published 14 May 25

Square Handheld combines 6.2-inch display, 16MP camera, and tap-to-pay in one compact POS device.

It's been 3 weeks since M&S suffered a cyberattack and, after suffering a £1 billion drop in marcap, they still aren't taking online orders

By Wayne Williams published 14 May 25

Online shopping still suspended at M&S following cyberattack that exposed customer information.

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I talked to an email service pioneer to find out why it is difficult for SaaS to be sustainable

By Wayne Williams published 14 May 25

EcoSend’s CEO urges SaaS providers to address hidden cost of digital emissions.

Nvidia CEO wants Saudi Arabia to become a global AI leader as kingdom signs billion dollar deals to buy hundreds of thousands of GB300 super chips by 2030

By Wayne Williams published 13 May 25

Nvidia to supply Saudi Arabia with hundreds of thousands of GB300 superchips.

Criminals are targeting Bitcoin owners on Facebook with a multi-stage malware campaign - follow these steps to stay safe

By Wayne Williams published 11 May 25

Fake crypto ads on Facebook now deliver malware that quietly spins up a local server on your machine.

I may have found my perfect PC chassis: A Ryzen 7 rig, built in a foldable keyboard that you can fit into a (large) trouser pocket

By Wayne Williams published 11 May 25

This travel-ready keyboard unfolds into a Ryzen 7 powered Windows mini PC.

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Polygamous working on the rise as ease of cheating on employers blamed on WFH and remote working

By Wayne Williams published 11 May 25

Multiple-job juggling becomes easier with remote work tools but companies worry about security performance and fraud risks.

AI is making phishing emails far more convincing with fewer typos and better formatting: Here's how to stay safe

By Wayne Williams published 10 May 25

Legacy filters are failing as AI enables phishing attacks that change on the fly and evade detection with surgical precision.

The Gr-AI-m Reaper: Hundreds of jobs at IBM and Crowdstrike vanish as artificial intelligence makes humans more dispensable

By Wayne Williams published 10 May 25

CrowdStrike and IBM lay off hundreds of human workers as AI takes over critical tasks once handled by people.

Chinese PC vendor shows rare picture of dozens of AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini workstations undergoing final aging tests and yes they've all got RGB fans spinning

By Wayne Williams published 9 May 25

GMKtec shares rare image of its AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PCs in final pre-shipment testing phase.

Like King Arthur and Excalibur, here's yet another AI startup trying its luck at dislodging Nvidia from the AI stone

By Wayne Williams published 8 May 25

French startup VSORA raises $46 million to take on Nvidia with a custom-built AI inference chip.

Just good enough: Huawei's new AI chip is only a small stepping stone towards domestic hegemony and an Nvidia-free China

By Wayne Williams published 7 May 25

Reports says Huawei is preparing to test its most advanced AI chip yet, but can Ascend 910D challenge Nvidia's H100?

Major US PC vendor hints at unannounced AMD EPYC 4005 mini PC being used in huge 35-units 42U racks

By Wayne Williams published 6 May 25

EPYC 4005 appears in a Puget Systems Rackstation listing, weeks before AMD officially announces it at Computex 2025.

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After AI, Nvidia wants to own a slice of that sweet trillion-dollar cybersecurity pie with its new DOCA software platform

By Wayne Williams published 6 May 25

Nvidia wants to protect AI infrastructure with DOCA Argus, its new agentless security framework.

Google says its AI behemoth is 24x faster than the world's best supercomputer - but this analyst, armed with a spreadsheet, disagrees

By Wayne Williams published 5 May 25

Google says its Ironwood TPU is 24x faster than El Capitan, the world's best supercomputer, but an analyst says that’s “perfectly silly”.

Glass out, plastic in: New fiber optic technology set to be deployed in AI data centers is both cheaper and faster

By Wayne Williams published 5 May 25

Japanese researchers have invented plastic fiber that slashes costs and boosts AI data speeds to 106Gbps.

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iStorage launches 26TB hardware encrypted desktop hard drive; just make sure you remember your PIN and have backups

By Wayne Williams published 5 May 25

iStorage's PIN-authenticated 26TB desktop drive is built for companies who fear data breaches.