Is there anything like a replacement? The three biggest tech sites that I traditionally love are ArsTechnica, AnandTech(rip), and Phoronix. One is dead man walking mode, the second is ded dead, and the last is still going strong.

I'm basically getting tech news from social media sites now and I don't like that.

In my wildest hopes for a positive future, I hope disenchanted engineers will see things like this as an opportunity to start our own companies founded on ideals of honesty, integrity, and putting people above profits.

I think there are enough of us who are hungry for this, both as creators and consumers. To make goods and services that are truly what people want.

Maybe the AI revolution will spark a backlash that will lead to a new economy with new values. Sustainable business which don't need to squeeze their customers for every last penny of revenue. Which are happy to reinvest their profits into their products and employees.

Maybe.

> start our own companies founded on ideals of honesty, integrity, and putting *people above profits*.

That's a non-profit charity, not a company.

I’ve really enjoyed 404media lately

I like them too. About the only other contender I see is maybe techcrunch.

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ServeTheHome has something akin to the old techy feel, but it has its own specific niche.

Conde Nast are the same people wearing Wired magazine like a skin suit, publishing cringe content that would have brought mortal shame upon the old Wired.

While their audience (and the odd staff member) is overwhelming anti AI in the comments, the site itself overall editorially doesn't seem to be.

Outrageous, but more precisely malpractice and unethical to not double check the result.

Probably "one bad apple", soon to be fired, tarred and feathered...

If Kyle Orland is about to be fingered as "one bad apple" that is pretty bad news for Ars.

“Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012” [1].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/author/kyle-orland/

There are apparently two authors on the byline and it’s not hard to imagine that one may be more culpable than the other.

You may be fine with damning one or the other before all the facts are known, zahlman, but not all of us are.

I don't read their comment as implying this. It might in fact hint at the opposite; it's far more likely for the less senior author to get thrown under the bus, regardless of who was lazy.

That's why I said "if".

Scapegoats are scapegoats but in every organization the problems are ultimately caused by their leaders. It's what they request or what they fail to request and what they lack to control.