# News and reading

> Where to read about the industry. Hacker News, The Register, Slashdot, iTnews, CIO and CSO Australia, WIRED, MIT Technology Review and Gartner; Microsoft and Google research and the Stack Overflow survey; Hackaday, Phys.org and Nautilus; free courses from MIT and Microsoft.

Source: https://ali.id.au/practices/learning/reading/ (last edited 2026-10-12)

## Industry news

* [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/)
* [The Register](https://www.theregister.com/)
* [Slashdot](https://slashdot.org/)
* [iTnews](https://www.itnews.com.au/) - Australian IT news
* [CIO Australia](https://www.cio.com/au/) and [CSO Australia](https://www.csoonline.com/au/)
* [TechRepublic](https://www.techrepublic.com/)
* [The Next Web](https://thenextweb.com/)
* [WIRED](https://www.wired.com/)
* [MIT Technology Review](https://www.technologyreview.com/)
* [Gartner newsroom](https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/archive)

## Research and surveys

* [Microsoft Research](https://www.microsoft.com/research/)
* [Google Research](https://research.google/)
* [Stack Overflow Developer Survey](https://survey.stackoverflow.co/)

## Science and making

* [Hackaday](https://hackaday.com/)
* [Phys.org](https://phys.org/) and [Tech Xplore](https://techxplore.com/)
* [Nautilus](https://nautil.us/) - science writing

## Courses

* [MIT OpenCourseWare](https://ocw.mit.edu/)
* [Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/training/)

See also: [Communities](/platforms/m365-sharepoint/communities/) for Microsoft 365 news and bloggers, [Learning AI](/practices/learning/ai/) for keeping up with AI, and [UI design](/practices/building/ui-design/#reading) for web design reading.