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

Cyberpunk 2077 macOS

Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to macOS on July 17

Cyberpunk 2077, the latest game from The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Red, is coming…

Grounded 2 Game Pass July 2025

Grounded 2, RoboCop: Rogue City, and More Are Coming to Game Pass in July

Grounded 2, RoboCop: Rogue City, and Farming Simulator 2025 are coming to Game Pass in…

Office 2019

Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows 10 Will No Longer Receive New Features After August 2026

Microsoft 365 will no longer receive new features on Windows 10 after August 2026, even…

Windows 11 PC

Windows Insider Canary Channel Gets a Substantial Update

The Windows 11 Canary build 27898 enables various new features that Microsoft previously tested on…

Spotify

Spotify Starts Testing “Your Updates” Notification Feed on Mobile

Spotify has started testing a new “Your Updates” notification feed on its mobile app that…

YouTube trending music videos

YouTube’s Trending Page and Trending Now List Are Going Away

To improve content discovery on YouTube, Google will retire the platform's Trending Page and Trending…

Apple Store

Gurman: New MacBook Pros, iPads, and iPhone 17e Are Coming in Early 2026

Apple is reportedly planning to release M5 MacBook Pros, M4 iPad Airs, and a new…

New Outlook for Windows

Microsoft is Working to Fix Persisting Outlook Outage

Microsoft has been busy working on a fix for an Outlook outage that's been plaguing…

YouTube Partner Program

YouTube Wants to Better Identify “Inauthentic” Content on Its Platform

Google announced an upcoming YouTube policy update aiming to better identify “mass-produced and repetitious content.”

X CEO Linda Yaccarino

X CEO Linda Yaccarino is Leaving the Company After Two Years

Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X announced yesterday that she was leaving the company after…

OpenAI board

OpenAI Will Reportedly Launch New AI-Powered Browser in the Coming Weeks

OpenAI is reportedly planning to launch its own AI-powered web browser in the coming weeks…

Apple Vision Pro Launch China Hong Kong Japan Singapore

Apple May Release Updated Vision Pro Headset Later This Year

An updated version of Apple’s Vision Pro headset with an M4 chip and a more…

Apple F1 US Broadcast rights

Apple is Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Formula 1’s US Broadcast Rights

Apple is reportedly in talks to acquire Formula 1's US broadcast rights following the success…

Samsung Galaxy Z FOld7

Samsung Announces Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7

Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 today come with slightly bigger displays, various…

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is Getting Threads in Channels

Microsoft Teams is adding support for threads in channels, which will let users reply to…

Windows 11 PC

Microsoft Releases July 2025 Patch Tuesday Updates

The July Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11 version 24H2 brings a new (or old?)…

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