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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Chinese AI Assistant Shocks Big Tech with Low-Cost, Efficacy

A Chinese AI assistant called DeepSeek has roared to the top of the iPhone App…

More tabs in .NETpad
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.NETpad 2025: Tabs Next Steps (Premium)

The way that WPF implements tabs is old-fashioned, non-optimal, and in no way ideal for…

Always another update
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There’s Always Another Update (Premium)

Personal technology promises to make our lives easier and take away the busy work. Please…

Epic Games Store in Android

Epic Games to Bring Third-Party Games to its Mobile Store in the EU

Epic Games said today that it would bring free and paid third-party games to its…

OpenAI Announces Operator AI Agent in Preview

OpenAI Announces Operator AI Agent in Preview

OpenAI today announced Operator, its take on an AI agent that can act independently and…

Google is Releasing Android 16 Beta 1 Today

Later today, Google will release the first beta of Android 16 for developers and enthusiasts…

Power dynamic
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A Shift in the AI Power Dynamic? (Premium)

Everyone reading Thurrott.com is familiar with the classic scene in The Empire Strikes Back in…

Brave Search Rerank

Brave Search Gets Customized Search Rankings

Brave today announced a new feature for Brave Search called Rerank that allows users to…

New AI features on Pixel

Google Details New Gemini and AI Features for Pixel

In addition to the new AI features that are coming to the new Galaxy S25…

Vivaldi 7.1

Vivaldi 7.1 Arrives on Desktop with Even More Personalization

Vivaldi today announced a major update to its desktop web browser that adds new Dashboard…

Google Education updates at BETT 2025

Google Announces Major Hardware and Software Updates for the Education Market

At BETT 2024 in London this week, Google announced major updates across Google Education, Google…

Netflix

Netflix Subscriber Base Surges, So It’s Raising Prices Again

Netflix will stop reporting its quarterly subscriber numbers, but it went out with a bang,…

What I Use: January 2025
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What I Use: January 2025 (Premium)

It's a new year and a good time to take stock: Here or abroad, I…

Apple Intelligence Siri

Apple Releases macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3, and iPadOS 18.3 Release Candidates, Makes Apple Intelligence Opt-Out

Apple today delivered Release Candidate (RC) builds of the next versions of its biggest platforms,…

Opera hygge desk

Apply Now for the Opera Hygge Desk Experience

Browser maker Opera launched a promotion that will bring 10 users to Norway to browse…

Baby Steps
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Baby Steps (Premium)

With the dust settling on last week's announcements about changes to Microsoft 365 and Copilot…

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