Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger with 30 years of industry experience and the author of 30 books. He is the owner of Thurrott.com and the host of three tech podcasts: Windows Weekly with Leo Laporte and Richard Campbell, Hands-On Windows, and First Ring Daily with Brad Sams. He was formerly the senior technology analyst at Windows IT Pro and the creator of the SuperSite for Windows from 1999 to 2014 and the Major Domo of Thurrott.com while at BWW Media Group from 2015 to 2023. You can reach Paul via email, Twitter or Mastodon.

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Snapdragon Dev Kit
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Snapped: Adventures in Snapdragon Dev Kit Recovery (Premium)

Leo sent me his Snapdragon Dev Kit this week, and my first experiences with it…

Apple Privacy

EU Requires Apple to Further Open iPhone to Third-Party Devices

The European Commission demanded that Apple further open up the iPhone to third parties to…

Intel Arrow Lake S processor

Intel Releases Fixes for Arrow Lake Performance Issues

As if Intel didn't have enough problems this year, it's recent "Arrow Lake" processors arrived…

GitHub Copilot is Now Free in Visual Studio Code

GitHub today announced GitHub Copilot Free, a free new tier of GitHub Copilot that integrates…

Android 16 Developer Preview 2

Google Releases Android 16 Developer Preview 2

Google today announced the availability of Android 16 Developer Preview 2 with app, performance, and…

New Microsoft 365 Copilot app

New Microsoft 365 Copilot App to Replace Microsoft 365 App in January

Microsoft alerted commercial customers today that it will be updating the Microsoft 365 app name…

2024 hardware wrap-up
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2024: The Best and Worst in Hardware (Premium)

For laptops, PCs, Macs, chips, peripherals, and other hardware, 2024 was the best of times,…

Grammarly + Coda

Grammarly Acquires AI Productivity Startup to Take on Notion

Grammarly announced today that it is acquiring Coda, an AI productivity startup that describes itself…

Google generative AI image and video tools

Google Announces Veo 2, Imagen 3 Update, and Whisk

Google has released updated versions of its video and image generation models, Veo 2 and…

Safety Reset in ChromeOS

ChromeOS 131 Adds Safety Reset, Other New Features

Google recently released ChromeOS 131. Among the new features is Safety Reset, which lets users…

## Framework Laptop 16 Gets a Dual M.2 Expansion Module

Framework Laptop 16 Gets a Dual M.2 Expansion Module

The Framework Laptop 16 just got its first Expansion Bay module, a Dual M.2 Adapter…

As accurate any other Apple rumor

Don’t Expect to see Folding Apple Devices Anytime Soon

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman is a notably reliable leaker of Apple's plans, but his latest report…

## Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition First Impressions

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition First Impressions

The latest ThinkPad X1 Carbon delivers on the vaunted quality and portability for which this…

25 hours
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From the Editor’s Desk: 25 Hours (Premium)

This past weekend, I spent over 25 hours completing the first preview version of a…

Qualcomm Oryon at the heart of the Snapdragon X series chips

RISCy Arm v. Qualcomm Trial Begins

Arm Holdings and Qualcomm will face off in a U.S. District Court in Delaware today…

Microsoft Issues New Windows 11 Insider Preview Builds to Dev and Beta Channels

It looks like Microsoft isn't getting into the holiday spirit quite yet. Instead, it has…

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