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, Facebook, Threads, X (Twitter), Bluesky, and Mastodon.

Laurent Giret’s Recent Posts

Unknown tracker alerts Android

Google Brings Unknown Tracker Alerts to Android

Unknown tracker alerts have started rolling out to Android 6.0 and newer, and they currently…

Windows 11

Windows Insider Canary Channel Gets New Dev Channel Features

The Windows 11 Insider Canary build 25915 brings several new features from the Dev Channel…

WhatsApp Video Messages

WhatsApp Starts Rolling Out Video Messages

WhatsApp has started rolling out instant video messages on its mobile apps. The feature will…

Xbox Games with Gold August 2023

Microsoft Reveals Final Xbox Games with Gold Lineup

Microsoft has revealed today the final Xbox Games with Gold titles that will be offered…

PlayStation 5

Sony’s PlayStation 5 Crosses Over 40 Million Units Sold Since Launch

Sony announced today that it has now sold over 40 million PlayStation 5 units since…

Microsoft Teams meetings

Microsoft Faces EU Antitrust Probe Over Teams/Office 365 Bundling

The EU Commission opened an antitrust investigation to determine if Microsoft bundling Teams with Office…

Bing dark mode

Microsoft Bing is Getting Dark Mode Support

Microsoft’s Bing search engine is finally adding dark mode support on the web, and the…

Windows 11 PC

Windows Insider Beta Channel Gets Bug Fixing Updates

Microsoft has just released the Windows 11 builds 22631.2115 and 22621.2115 for Insiders on the…

AI

OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic Launch New AI Safety Group

OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic have jointly announced the launch of the Frontier Model Forum,…

New Xbox Home Experience

Microsoft Starts Rolling Out New Xbox Home Experience

The new Xbox Home experience that's now rolling out to Xbox One and Xbox Series…

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 Z Flip5

Samsung Announces Galaxy Z Flip5 and Z Fold5

Samsung put the wraps off its new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Galaxy Z Fold5 at…

Meta Threads

Threads Starts Rolling Out New Chronological Feed

Threads, the Twitter clone created by Meta’s Instagram team is getting a new chronological feed…

ChatGPT Android app

ChatGPT Android App Launches in the US, Brazil, and India

OpenAI has released its new ChatGPT Android app in the US, Brazil, India, and Bangladesh…

AMD Ryzen Zen 2 CPU

AMD to Fix “Zenbleed” Vulnerability Affecting its Zen 2 CPUs

"Zenbleed" is the name of a pretty serious security vulnerability that's been discovered in AMD’s…

apple-devices iOS macOS

iOS 16.6 and macOS 13.5 Bring New Security Fixes

Apple released iOS 16.6, iPadOS 16.6, and macOS 13.5 yesterday to fix various security vulnerabilities…

Microsoft Bing Chatbot

Microsoft is Making its Bing Chatbot Available in Chrome and Safari

Microsoft has started making its Bing chatbot available on other web browsers including Chrome and…

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