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.

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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.…

Android Instant apps

Google Play Store to Drop Android Instant Apps in December 2025

The Google Play Store will soon drop support for Android Instant apps, which let Android…

Windows 11 PC

New Windows 11 and Windows 10 Builds Are Available on the Release Preview Channel

Microsoft released today two new Windows 11 and Windows 10 builds for Insiders on the…

Copilot Vision on Windows

Copilot Vision on Windows is Now Available in the US

Copilot Vision, the new feature that makes Microsoft’s AI assistant capable of seeing what’s on…

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Apple Details New Parental Controls Coming to iOS 26 and macOS 26

Apple detailed today a couple of new tools coming to iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and…

macOS Sequoia iPhone mirroring

Apple Explains Why Mac Users in the EU Can’t Use iPhone Mirroring

At its WWDC 25 conference this week, Apple finally explained why Mac users in the…

Amazon Prime Video Ads

Report: Amazon Nearly Doubled the Ad Load on Prime Video

Amazon has quietly dialed up the ad load on Prime Video after introducing “limited advertisements”…

Microsoft Copilot Vision Mobile

Microsoft Makes Copilot Vision Free to Try on Mobile

Copilot Vision, the new AI feature that enables the consumer version of Microsoft’s Copilot assistant…

Meta AI video editing

Meta AI Adds a Video Editing Feature

Meta’s AI chatbot is becoming a bit more useful today thanks to new generative AI…

Meta Threads app

Meta Starts Testing Direct Messages on Threads

Meta has started testing a new Direct Messages feature on Threads, its Twitter/X clone that…

Nintendo Switch 2

Nintendo Switch 2 Sold Over 3.5 Million Units in Just Four Days

Nintendo sold over 3.5 million units of its new Switch 2 console in the four…

Windows 11 PC

Microsoft Releases June 2025 Patch Tuesday Updates for Windows 11

The June 2025 Patch Tuesday updates bring Windows Search and Click to Do improvements on…

PS5 DualSense Controllers Multiple Bluetooth Connections

PS5 DualSense Controllers Will Soon Support Multiple Bluetooth Connections

Sony’s PS5 DualSense controllers will add support for multiple Bluetooth connections with a new update…

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