www.theregister.com
They cover mainstream topics, but they have a lot of in-depth enterprise tech news and they have their own voice and humour.
www.linuxgizmos.com www.cnx-software.com
Both these sites covers SBCs (not only Raspberry Pi), microcontrollers and random DIY stuff
www.osnews.com
Some mainstream coverage, but also a lot of random news about open source, niche and historical operating systems and computers
www.hackaday.com
DIY hardware news and projects
www.restofworld.org
Lots of tech news on non-western countries, mainstream topics are covered as well, but often with a different perspective.
www.semiengineering.com www.chipsandcheese.com
Very specialized sources on semiconductor developments. Very in-depth, many of the articles are difficult to understand even if you have solid (armchair) knowledge of semiconductors.
Self-promotion: I am a mod at hardware@lemmy.world, while coverage includes a lot of mainstream tech hardware topics, there is content on more nitty gritty semiconductor topics (a lot of business type news though), battery tech and unique hardware devices (some retro coverage too). The sidebar includes more specialized tech communities on Lemmy that might be of interest to you.
Thanks for linking that community, there's some pretty interesting stuff in there
I consider The Register to be the gold standard in tech journalism. When asked how I keep up with evolving tech, I told the interview panel that any tech news they see on mainstream media was likely broken by The Register 3 days previous, with original sources and quotes from top corporate officers.
Also told them I had followed several tech subs on reddit in the past, but as the site has devolved into bots talking to one another, I've turned to lemmy for tech community interaction and advice.
(No, I'm not using lemmy for that so much, but if I land the network admin job I will!)
Lemmy
I just use RSS feeds for everything that interests me. some of them are hackernews, serveTheHome and opensource.com, but there are plenty more. RSS is so underated imo.
Mastodon, Lemmy, RSS.
hackernews its like reddit but the user submitted links are tech and research of hardware heavy. A good portion of my RSS feed is from blogs that posts were submitted to there.
Ars?
Sounds like you're after hackaday and similar specialist blogs
General tech sites will mostly cater to the tech the general public care about, enthusiasts don't bring in the ad money comparatively
The community tech@programming.dev could also use some love
sometimes I want to read about, I don’t know, advancements in eInk paper, DIY gadgets, transmitting data using non-conventional media (e.g. FM radio), odd games (e.g. that you can play with one hand, with your phone), coding fun things in some esoteric language, or good news like schools benefiting from tech donations
I don't think there is a one place for all of those at once. But I think some part of your interests might be covered by https://spectrum.ieee.org/it also provides RSS feed
hackaday.com mostly.
Everything else is "big tech adds [anti-feature], shoves AI more places no one asked for".
You go to tech news sites? Did you time travel from the 2000s? Can you bring me back with you?
Phoronix seems pretty solid, although they're primarily Linux-centric.
Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Never seems to let me down when I am sick of the Technology adjacent news. It does still have that news but at least it isn't just that.
https://lobste.rs/as well
brutalist.report hwurls.com
Mostly RSS feeds of either the upstream projects directly (e.g. Rust Blog about Rust news, OpenSSL releases about OpenSSL,...), blogs by people I have noticed write interesting things (e.g. Cory Doctorow) or collections of news like This Week in Rust.
Mastodon, lobsters, Lemmy, talking with coworkers and friends, occasional research papers from the field I studied, and I have a few sites I rotate for national or international news but those aren't really tech specific