The modern web contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there's no panacea for what ails this internet ...

Google Reader was a fantastic way to keep up with your favorite blogs and news sources with RSS feeds, but it was discontinued years ago. Now, Google has remembered that RSS feeds still exist, but ...

So you need an RSS reader, or maybe you don’t because a zillion sites have been mourning Google Reader’s demise for months (it’s alive for a few more hours, then sayonara) and you’ve already found ...

My local PC generates briefings for me in real time as news breaks.

One issue some people are facing amid the boom in email newsletters is staying on top of all the ones they're interested in while managing their inboxes. Substack, one of the most prominent newsletter ...

“It turns out we don’t want to live in our inboxes all day.” Privacy-protecting browser Brave is introducing a new news reader, Brave Today, per Ars Technica ...

However, just being a browser-based application can put these products at a disadvantage. They don't offer the flexibility (or the complexity) of apps installed locally on your hard drive. They don't ...

If you want to refresh your Internet feed this year, RSS feeds are the way to go. In 2026, limit reliance on social media algorithms prioritizing profits over user experience, or in more colorful ...

Slick RSS is not a front-end to an online feed reader, but a complete RSS client built into Google Chrome. If you like to constantly check for new content on your favorite sites, you may have come ...

Your phone or laptop will give you access to the vast majority of news in the world, in languages you can read and a few hundred you can’t. Maybe you only like one news source, though, and that news ...