Laurent Giret
Laurent is a Senior News Editor helping Paul Thurrott with daily tech news coverage since 2022. He's been writing about the technology industry for 10 years, mainly focusing on Big Tech companies. He also was the Editorial Manager of the Petri IT Knowledgebase from 2022 to 2023. You can follow Laurent on LinkedIn, Threads, X (Twitter), Bluesky, and Mastodon.
Laurent Giret’s Recent Posts
Sony Presses the Nostalgia Button With PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection
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- Sep 19, 2024
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Sony revealed today a retro-looking PlayStation 30th Anniversary Collection as it prepares to celebrate 30…
YouTube Makes ‘Pause Ads’ Available to All Advertisers
- Laurent Giret
- Sep 19, 2024
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YouTube users who don’t pay for YouTube Premium should soon start to see ads when…
EU Commission Gives Apple Six Months to Improve Device Interoperability on iOS and iPadOS
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- Sep 19, 2024
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The European Commission has started proceedings to push Apple to improve the interoperability of iOS…
LinkedIn Updates its Terms of Service to Detail AI Training With Member Data
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- Sep 18, 2024
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LinkedIn announced an update to its Terms of Service today to make it clearer that…
YouTube Launches New Communities Experience
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- Sep 18, 2024
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YouTube is launching today a new Communities experience to give content creators and their audience…
Apple Blocks iPadOS 18 Updates on its Latest iPad Pro to Investigage Bricking Issues
- Laurent Giret
- Sep 18, 2024
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Apple has temporarily blocked iPadOS 18 updates on its latest iPad Pro models with M4…
Apple Intelligence to Add Support For German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, And Other Languages in 2025
- Laurent Giret
- Sep 18, 2024
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Apple Intelligence, which will officially launch in the US next month, is set to add…
GSMA Pushes Mobile Industry to Make RCS Messages End-to-End Encrypted
- Laurent Giret
- Sep 17, 2024
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After Apple finally added support for RCS messages on iOS 18 yesterday, the GSMA is…
Amazon Announces Prime Big Deal Days on October 8-9
- Laurent Giret
- Sep 17, 2024
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Amazon will kick off the holiday shopping season early with its Prime Big Deal Days…
Instagram Launches Teen Accounts With More Protections
- Laurent Giret
- Sep 17, 2024
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Meta is launching Instagram Teen Accounts to better protect teenagers on its social network, which…
Ara: History Untold, Frostpunk 2, and Wargroove 2 are Coming to Game Pass
- Laurent Giret
- Sep 17, 2024
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The second wave of games coming to Game Pass in September include Wargroove 2 and…
Apple Releases iOS 18, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11, macOS Sequoia, and visionOS 2
- Laurent Giret
- Sep 16, 2024
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The big annual updates for Apple's software platform are now available with iOS 18, iPadOS…
Apple to Charge More For iPhone 16 Pro Battery Replacements
- Laurent Giret
- Sep 16, 2024
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Apple will charge $20 more for out-of-warranty battery replacements for the iPhone 16 Pro and…
Report: Intel Lost PlayStation 6 Chip Contract to AMD
- Laurent Giret
- Sep 16, 2024
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Intel reportedly tried but failed to get Sony to use its chips instead of AMD’s…
Microsoft 365 Copilot is Getting New Agent Builder, Pages Experience, More
- Laurent Giret
- Sep 16, 2024
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Microsoft is kicking off the next phase of innovation for Microsoft 365 Copilot with a…
Meta Will Resume Training its AI Using Public Posts from UK Users
- Laurent Giret
- Sep 13, 2024
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After engaging with local regulators, Meta is planning to resume the training of its AI…