For the benefit of those who don't read linked articles but might be willing to look at some of the sites, the "15 most popular" sites reported at the link in the first post here are:

1. http://news.yahoo.com/

2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

3. http://www.cnn.com/

4. http://news.google.com/

5. http://www.nytimes.com/

6. http://www.foxnews.com/

7. http://www.theguardian.com/

8. http://www.nbcnews.com/

9. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

10. http://www.usatoday.com/

11. http://www.washingtonpost.com/

12. http://www.wsj.com/

13. http://www.abcnews.go.com/

14. http://news.bbc.co.uk/

15. http://www.latimes.com/


Like Joe O., I previously got fairly good technical info from Ziff Davis, via an email sign-up from PC Magazine, but what's left of that one is – as noted above – mostly "advertisements disguised as news."

ZD does still have some interesting websites that do sometimes have fairly good "tech stuff," but so far as I can tell the useful sites don't have regular newsletters you can sign up for without a paid magazine(?) subscription. The newsletters I get from ZD do sometimes link to "real stuff" at one of the other ZD sites.

I've also signed up for one email "newsletter" from PC World, which covers the business side of UK happenings pretty well. This "subscription" also is the apparent reason why I receive weekly (or more frequent) "offers" of "white papers" from about a dozen commercial sources, all of no interest to me, with their real purpose to get you to "register" in order to download their "white paper" (advertisement) so that they can add you to their other lists for more advertising offers.

I get generally interesting "Science and Technology" news from a regular weekly "Sigma Xi Smartbriefs" newsletter. My subscription there comes from a "membership" (emeritis after 50 years) in Sigma Xi but the newsletter might be available to non members. Very little of this is computer related, but there is good coverage of the latest fads in what passes for "science" now.

John