Ars Technica is my favorite news/articles tech site. I like that it doesn't shove a bunch of related news bits as separate articles to spam their feed (e.g. when Apple releases a minor OS update for each platform we don't need a separate article for each). Generally the articles are written even if a summary of a press release (some sites would make the press release an article with maybe a line or two of editorial). They do in-depth articles on technology, astronomy, movies and television, and in general topics that interest me.

Commentary system is fairly good with up/down voting and enough activity so that if you're just reading the comments they're mostly fairly good (exceptions when platform or political zealotry rears its head). RSS feed is good - you get a pic and a few paragraphs and the titles are good so that you often don't need to go to the article to get the main point.

I used to read Slashdot but that's more of an aggregator with a great commenting system than a platform with original content. I also read a few Apple News sites because they're more responsive though often repetitive (c.f. splitting up a topic that could be covered in one article into separate articles and when they all do it it's an avalanche of little news stories all kind of sounding alike). Ars Technica is not really a site for up-to-the-minute news but more like a newspaper where when they post an article a day or two later there is more research and thoughtful writing.

Overall Ars Technica is really good and the only general tech site I read nowadays.