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Tech News Sites
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News Aggregators
- DistroWatch — Linux distro release news and a weekly newsletter. Also has a decent list of Linux/open source focused podcasts.
- Slashdot — As old as the internet, has changed hands too many times to count and is run by idiots. However the community that visits/comments on the articles are top notch.
- SoylentNews — A fork of Slashdot from early 2014 (the infamous "Slashdot Beta" era). Good, but much smaller community.
- MOSFET.net — a project from NODE with no ads.
Written Articles
- ArsTechnica — Decent writers on staff. Covers all things tech. Sometimes may be biased when talking about Linux, that's why it's called ArseTechnica sometimes.
- Phoronix — Free and open-source software news, benchmarks, and more!
- The Register — Important stories reported with a loose feel of attempted hipness. The security section is particularly fun. Verity Stob, a pseudonymous columnist, is amusing.
- TorrentFreak — Focus on torrent and copyright issues. If your tracker is down, these guys will know why.
- Wired — More consumerist than ArsTechnica and falling towards clickbait headlines and political correctness with declining tech content as of 2021. Good security section.
- Armed and Dangerous — "Sex, software, politics, and firearms. Life's simple pleasures..." ESR's blog
- N-O-D-E — Technical projects
- IEEE Spectrum — General technology news
- Aviation Week & Space Technology — As it says on the tin. Well known for its inside stories, to the point it is known as Aviation Leak & Space Mythology
- Hacker News — General technology news
- Bleeping Computer — information security and technology news
- The MagPi Magazine — the official Raspberry Pi magazine
Electronics
Various trade press:
- Electronics Weekly — Long running British news site
- EE Times — US news site
Ham Radio
- RTL-SDR — RTL-SDR (RTL2832U) and software defined radio news and projects. Also featuring Airspy, HackRF, FCD, SDRplay and more.
- QRPer — News with a focus on QRP (low power, often small and portable) ham radio
- QRZ Now — General ham radio news
Hardware
- Hackaday — News on hardware projects, including ham radio. Also a This week in security-column. Also related to the DIY project site Hackaday.io.
- LinuxGizmos — News with a focus on embedded single board computers (SBC), many run Linux. Formerly known as LinuxDevices. Has a extensive overview of SBCs.
- Low Tech Magazine — News on practical low tech, often based on old technologies.
Linux Focus News
- LWN — Started as Linux Weekly News but is now wider in scope. It provides in-depth articles and the editor, Jonathan Corbet, is a kernel hacker. It is semi subscription based with a free edition the subsequent Thursday.
- The Linux Journal — News about GNU/Linux Software
- OMG! Ubuntu! — News about GNU/Linux Software with a focus on Ubuntu. Claims to be the most popular Ubuntu-based news-site on the web.
Science News
- Phys Org — News about Science
Society and Culture
- EFF — Legal issues and open internet news.
- TechDirt — Focuses more on legal and copyright issues than general technology.
- Neon Dystopia — Focus on society, games and trends, with a Cyberpunk angle.
- FSF Latin America — Alexandre Oliva's personal blog, that does not necessarily represent the opinions held by FSFLA
Podcasts
- Going Linux — Biweekly beginner linux podcast which takes it's time and lives on listener feedback.
- Jupiter Broadcasting — A podcasting network with several excellent tech related shows.
- Risky Business — Weekly infosec podcast featuring security news, feature interviews and a sponsored interview.
- Brian Lunduke — The Lunduke Hour. He is head editor for The Linux Journal too
Blogs
- Krebs on Security — Brian Krebs' Security blog. Plenty of OC.
- Schneier on Security — Bruce Schneier's security blog.
- Sizeof(cat) — various projects and security
- Claucece — blog with cryptography