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

Microsoft Opens ID@Azure Program to All Game Developers

Microsoft's ID@Azure program aims to help small developers embrace the same cloud services used by…

YouTube Makes 4,000 TV Show Episodes Free to Watch in the US

YouTube users in the US are getting access to a vast catalog of movies and…

Google Play Store on Android is Losing Support for Movies & TV

Google's Play Store app on Android will soon lose its Movies & TV content section.…

Zoom Wants to Spice Up Meetings with New Animal Avatars

Zoom is trying to tackle video meeting fatigue with new 3D animal avatars, which are…

Microsoft Says Lapsus$ Hackers Had “Limited Access” to Source Code

Microsoft has confirmed yesterday that the Lapsus$ hacker group, which previously claimed to have stolen…

Steam

Steam Alpha is Now Available on the Chrome OS Dev Channel

The alpha version of Steam for Chromebooks that Google announced last week is now available…

Google’s Android Messages and Dialer Apps Got Caught Collecting User Data

Google’s Messages and Phone apps for Android have been quietly collecting and sending user data…

TweetDeck May Soon Become a Paid Twitter Blue Feature

TweetDeck, a popular web-based Twitter client for power users may soon become locked behind a…

Apple TV App for Android TV Drops All In-app Purchases

The Apple TV app for Android TV and Google TV no longer supports in-app purchases,…

Surface Duo and AMD-based Surface Laptop 3 Get New Firmware Updates

Microsoft has started rolling out new firmware updates for the original Surface Duo and the…

China Asks Microsoft to Suspend Bing Auto-suggestions

Microsoft has been asked by Chinese authorities to temporarily suspend Bing’s auto-suggest features in the…

Epic Games Raises $36 Million for Ukraine Through Fortnite

Epic Games announced today that it has already raised $36 million to support humanitarian efforts…

Xbox Cloud Gaming Adds Steam Deck Support via Microsoft Edge

Xbox Cloud Gaming is now accessible on Valve’s Steam Deck via Microsoft Edge. The Redmond…

Windows 11 PC with Start Menu

New Windows 11 Insider Build Brings Back Naming Options for Start Menu Folders

Microsoft has just released the Windows 11 Insider build 22579 for testers in the Dev…

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge 100 Lands in the Beta Channel

Microsoft Edge 100 is now available for testers in the Beta channel, and the main…

New Surface Go 3 with LTE Model Launches at $499

Microsoft’s Surface Go 3 with LTE tablet is getting more affordable with a new model…

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