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.

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Facebook Passkeys

Facebook Adds Passkeys Support on Mobile

Facebook has started rolling out passkeys support on its mobile app, and users will soon…

Netflix Now Has 260.8 Million Paid Subscribers

Netflix to Start Streaming Linear and On-Demand Content from French TV Group TF1

Netflix announced today a groundbreaking partnership with French TV group TF1 to distribute its live…

Threads Fediverse feed

Threads Introduces Dedicated Fediverse Feed

Threads users who turned on sharing to the fediverse will now have a dedicated feed…

Meta Facebook Videos Reels

Meta Will Soon Turn All New Videos on Facebook Into Reels

All videos uploaded on Facebook will soon be shared as reels, with a streamlined creation…

TikTok

Trump Administration to Delay TikTok US Ban for Another 90 Days

President Trump will sign a new executive order to give ByteDance another 90 days to…

Call of Duty MW2 Warcraft Trilogy Game Pass

Call of Duty: WWII, Warcraft Trilogy, and More Are Coming to Game Pass

Crash Bandicoot 4, Call of Duty: World War II, and the Warcraft trilogy on PC…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Report: OpenAI May Raise the Antitrust Weapon Against its Partner Microsoft

OpenAI is reportedly considering making antitrust complaints to regulators to pressure Microsoft to change the…

Meta AI App

Meta AI App Now Warns Users Before They Share Chats With Everyone Else

Meta has quietly tweaked its Meta AI app after multiple reports pointed out that it…

Meta Facebook Instagram

Instagram is Testing New Repost Feature With Select Users

Instagram has started testing a new repost feature for posts and reels videos, with reposts…

Amazon Prime Day 2025

Amazon Announces Prime Day 2025 on July 8-11

Amazon is bringing back its Prime Day event next month, and this time it will…

Mac Mini

Apple Launches Repair Program for M2 Mac Mini Models With Power Issues

Apple launched a worldwide repair program for a “very small percentage” of M2 Mac mini…

Windows Hello Facial Recognition

Microsoft Quietly Disabled Windows Hello Facial Recognition in the Dark

Microsoft quietly changed how Windows Hello Facial Recognition work to address a security vulnerability, and…

Whatsapp ads in status promoted channels subscriptions

WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Status Updates, Promoted Channels, and Channel Subscriptions

WhatsApp will soon start to mix ephemeral Status updates with ads. The app's Updates tab…

Google Audio Overviews Search results

Google Trials Audio Overview of Search Results

Google is launching today an experimental Audio Overviews feature that generates conversational audio responses for…

Settings AI Agent Copilot+ PCs

Microsoft Starts Testing New Settings AI Agent and Recall Export Experience

Microsoft has started testing a new AI agent in Settings and various improvements to Recall…

Steam Apple Silicon Mac

Steam Will Soon Run Natively on Apple Silicon Macs

Valve has just released a native version of Steam for Apple Silicon Macs in beta.…

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