I realize this may sound a bit stupid considering it’s the Internet; there’s information everywhere. That being said, over on Reddit I used Third Party Apps like Apollo and Pager to stay up to date on certain things (Apple OS updates, Windows OS updates, Nvidia Driver updates, etc) where they would send me alerts when new updates were released, and now with Reddit shutting down these Apps I’m a bit lost on how to continue staying up to date, that is without manually refreshing official sites and waiting for a new update to release. Now, yeah, I probably could just follow Twitter accounts, but Twitter is a shithole.
RSS feeds.
For general tech stuff, you can pick a hacker news RSS feed that suits your needs. https://hnrss.github.io/
For more specific topics, you can follow blogs dedicated to those subjects (using RSS as well). You get an alert when there’s a new post, instead of checking the page.
Aaron Swartz actually worked on RSS, so it’s ironic that I find myself revert back to it. Also, the signal-to-noise ratio is better than Reddit these days.