Then when I check a link, I often look around on those sites to see if something else jumps out. Over time this produces some favourites due to their subject focus and/or style of reporting. Some current favourites:
Slashdot, ArsTechnica, Wired, El Reg (The Register), The Onion, Hackaday, EEVblog, and any sciency site that is well-sourced & reports reasonably accurate.
And leaning towards hw / electronics, general science or engineering advances, sometimes political subjects, not coding or such. But open to anything that expands my know-how or exercises my brain. :-)
Btw: some sites are more interesting for their comment sections than the article content.