>>967817 (OP)
Smartphone faggotry kept tech sites alive to a certain extent. Now that the "muh innovations" are dead and people lost interest in upgrading every year and taking part in brand wars, traffic has been plummeting and sites are closing here and there.
Some became blatant sellouts, writing for sponsorship money - people left those places long ago as well.
Windows 10 killed speculative OS sites, as both there's nothing new and what little we have is utter crap. GNU/Linux news don't sell, and such sites are becoming scarcer, specially because the community as a whole is losing their hype - the people who grew up with them did it out of hobby and had a genuine interest, but now they all have jobs elsewhere, lack time and just want something that works. I don't blame these people.
What little left we had was a staling hardware wars, specifically Intel vs AMD and nVidia vs AMD. Now, with the end of Moore's law, this is about to end as well, and in fact, it already has been, as both hardware capacity and software demand has stopped making significant growths.
We have Browser wars - which already ended when Firefox decided to suicide itself with SJWs, a crap engine and everything else bad, as Chrome has become the new IE and as every other player can't make gains.
We used to have competition between other software as well, such as video players, image editors, download accelerators, torrent clients, archive managers, audio players, editors and whatever else - but these either vanished into irrelevancy or settled long ago. There's nothing exciting to see here either.
Even the "gaming" world stopped, as people chose about half a dozen games to play and everything else don't sell or is either emulation of old games people played in their childhood. Again, discussion ended here, those "half a dozen games" are online and require little of it. In fact, people got tired of games and don't have time for it anymore. Go to /v/ and you'll see exactly that, people talking for fun, when in fact no one plays anything anymore.
So, tech news are dead, the tech hype is over and the tech era reached its stop point. From now on, expect more companies and services to enter this world, making it more dull and with more adds.
The end. There's no escape.