Technology @lemmy.world nixchick @lemmy.ml 1y ago

Any good tech sites without the fluff?

I am looking for some good tech sites that have longer articles and indepth reviews. Preferably without an obvious biased towards a particular company or brand. edit: I should have clarified what to was looking for. I would like to compile a list of lesser-known but useful websites so that I can stay current on tech news without having to deal with the "fluff" that some of these sites now contain or the never-ending stream of anything remotely technological that you'd receive at the Verge, Ars Technica, etc.

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Here's some that I follow:

Anandtech^1: Great general tech website, has some deep dives. It did used to be a lot better

Chips and Cheese^2: Insane deep dives into architectures and chips.

More than Moore^3: Ex Anandtech editor in chief, does great breakdowns of new AI tech and silicon.

igor's Lab^4: Does some great deep dives into various GPU and CPU issues.

KGOnTech^5: Only just followed this blog, seems to do a good teardown on the apple headset.

Krebs on Security^6: Blog by one of the best security researchers and breaks down vulnerabilities

EE Times^7: Good well written site with overviews on many areas in tech

Techspot Featured Articles^8: Mainly gaming and GPU/CPU, but does some good articles exploring games, tech etc
- i am a EE major and i didn't know about EETimes :O
- Thanks, there are a few I haven't heard of.
  
  Here's another good idea if you don't follow RSS feeds, I use these at work to aggregate some sites together:
  
  https://hwurls.com/
  
  https://techurls.com/
- I'd loved Anandtech in the past, for how they used to be. hadn't heard of those other numbers 2,3,4 before, thanks for posting them!
Ars Technica
- Ars Technica has to be some of the most reputable high quality reporting in tech. I got hooked way back when they’d publish twenty plus page reviews covering operating systems.
  
  I think they still do that. They’ll probably have in-depth reviews of iOS 17 (and its watch and iPad counterparts) on Monday or Tuesday and Sonoma coverage a week after that, so we’ll know for sure soon.
- I love Ars. Eric Berger’s space coverage is fantastic
If i may be so bold, I and a few others write about tech at https://theluddite.org/.

I focus on the intersection between technology and human decisions. A lot of tech coverage has a techno-optimist, or tech-as-progress default perspective, where tech is almost this inexorable, inevitable, and apolitical force of nature. I strongly disagree with this perspective, which I think is convenient for the powers that be because it obscures that, right now, a few rich humans are making all our tech decisions.

I also write code for a living, which shockingly few tech writers and commentators have ever done. That makes it possible for me to write stuff like this.
- Jesus Christ, that is as hilarious as it is painful. You'd think they look at their own click-through stats for a site and realise that it's popular enough, but you'd be wrong.
  
  Anyway, you earned yourself a bookmark.
  
  Yes, exactly. I don't understand their need for content on a site. Shouldn't it be enough from their point of view to have a as most sites as possible integrating their ads? Why bother about the content?
  
  Yeah, the broken Internet is just so much dumber than people think. Welcome aboard!
- Great article on Google Adsense :) I accidentally clicked on one of the ads. Enjoy the extra penny.
  
  Haha thank you. I've generally found that Google decides most of the ad clicks that come from my site are "invalid," so it'll pay me and then take it back 🙃. 90% or so of my ad revenue has been reversed within a day or two. We're talking like 12 USD so it's not like I'm losing a fortune, but still!
- Interesting topics, added to my RSS feed ✅
- "Layer the compote to really represent all the states"
Notebookcheck is pretty dry but their reviews are more thorough and technical than most.
- Notebookcheck
  
  The name makes it sound like blogspam, but the first time I went on there I was incredibly blown away by how through they were. It was for a laptop and went to the level of determining variance in brightness across the screen and stuff like that.
- LOVE Notebookcheck. It's probably my most trusted source when buying / recommending laptops and components
Notebookcheck and Phoronix (though mostly Linux news)
- Love Linux hence my name.
  
  You expect people to read usernames on here as well as the post??? 🙄🙄 GEEEEEEEZ 😂
https://lwn.net/ for Linux-related articles.
- Hey, thanks man, added them the my rss feed
  
  I'm putting together an RSS feed reader myself. What are some good sites on yours?
Many such articles are reposted on HackerNews occasionally: https://news.ycombinator.com/
- I’d stay off HackerNews. It’s got a lot of headassery.
  
  Probably. Still, it might be useful for blog discovery. One doesn't have to read the comments.
Any specific area you're looking?

If you're looking for super broad. BBC's tech section is decent. There's also always slashdot.

If you're looking for like more PC/gaming stuff, anandtech, techpowerup, and wccftech generally seem decent. Tomshardware news is decent too, but the only reviews I'd trust there are Aris' power supply reviews and articles.
Check out r/NewMaxx by u/NewMaxx on Reddit. That subreddit is focused on SSD news and a great source for it, but the articles linked on the sub are generally good sites for tech news in general.
The Register has broken some good stories.

Also an excuse to read Simon Travaglia's BOFH https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/
techmeme.com is a great aggregator
Medium is actually pretty great for industry news, opinion pieces, or occasionally howtos.

If the kind of tech news you are looking for is like cell phone reviews or Twitter drama, I don't know what to tell you.. Most of what I read on medium tends to have more substance to it.

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