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

Android opening Office document without Microsoft account

Android Users Can Now Open Shared Office Documents Without a Microsoft Account

Android users can now open shared Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files without being logged into…

WhatsApp

WhatsApp Won’t Start Showing Ads to EU Users Until 2026

The WhatsApp team informed Ireland's privacy regulator that the app's new advertising model won’t be…

Windows 11 PC

Microsoft Drops New Windows 11 Builds for Canary and Release Preview Testers

Microsoft has just released two new Windows 11 preview builds with new features for Insiders…

ChatGPT Record mode

ChatGPT Record Mode Start Rolling Out to Pro, Enterprise, and Edu Users

OpenAI is starting to roll out the new record mode in ChatGPT to Pro, Enterprise,…

YouTube Shorts

YouTube Users Will Soon Be Able to Create AI-Generated Shorts Videos

Google is planning to make Veo 3, its state-of-the-art video generation model, available for YouTube…

Google AI Mode Search Live

Google’s AI Mode Now Supports Voice Chats With New ‘Search Live’ Feature

Google is launching an experimental Search Live feature in its new AI mode that lets…

Report: Microsoft to Lay Off Thousand of Employees Early Next Month

Microsoft is reportedly planning to lay off thousands of employees early next month following the…

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…

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