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Netcraft has not confirmed it yet, but Slashdot is dying. Here are some alternatives that are popping up:

• Soylent News, which is red.
• Pipedot, which opened with the line "I'm doing a (free) news website (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like osdn)." Heh.
• Technocrat plans to launch tomorrow.

Let's make this a thread to discuss technology news websites.

• Reddit /r/technology has a broader subject view.
• Techdirt provides all of the politics and none of the tech.
• Ars Technica has tech news out the arse.
• Lobste.rs has some really interesting tech links like Hacker News used to before they went all-politics.
• Linux Weekly News does only Linux news and does it well.
• Hack A Day has some awesome hardware hacks.
• The comp.risks digest is still around.
• A List Apart has essays on web development.
• Dr. Dobbs discusses programming languages.

If you're into tech, what do you read?

>website announces they're changing up the UI/site design
>OMG it's dying!

This shit happens every time a site changes stuff. Youtube. Facebook. Fimfiction. I can't wait for KYM to get redesigned and bask in the rustled jimmies and butthurt that will make the advice animals look like a poorly done stage rehearsal.

Are people still boycotting CNET after the shit CBS pulled or did that die like pretty much every boycott does?

Most users do accept change and go on, but some don't. Given the uniformly negative community response to the Slashdot redesign, this looks like Digg v4 all over again.

CNET is probably doing fine. I had actually forgotten about the CBS scandal and I doubt that most of its users have heard of it or are aware that they add malware to their downloads.