also feel free to comment your own suggestions for news sites for tech updates that don’t pay wall on the web page.
New York times - https://www.nytimes.com/section/technology abc - https://abcnews.go.com/technology
the hill - https://thehill.com/policy/technology/ BBC news - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology
while nonprofit Npr doesn’t pay wall, they have a new pop up that says something along the likes of “expected a paywall not our style please donate” that the user can dismiss and continue browsing the site. https://www.npr.org/sections/technology/
Reuters use to be a good source for me untill they started pay walling after a small amount of news article reads.
as you say this big companies in recent times have been working on making the web less wide, and less accessible mostly for independent sites. search engines hide sites, sometimes Playstore will take down apps. I think this is a small issue slowly turning into a big issue. and a small handful that own a bunch of the sites you commonly see will take advantage of the changing landscape.