Of all the tools for reading news and subscribing to software releases, I still find RSS the most useful.
I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly’s own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself.

Link: My Feedly RSS Feed

Feedly
RSS feed subscription management
Features:

Keyword alerts.
Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url.
Notation and highlighting support (a bit like Evernote).
Search and filtering across large numbers of feeds / content.
IFTTT, Zapier, Buffer and Hootsuite integration.
Built in save / share functionality (that I only use when I’m on the website).
Backup feeds to Dropbox.
Very fast, regardless of the fact that I’m in Australia - which often impacts the performance of apps / sites that tend to be hosted on AWS in the US as the latency is so high.
Article de-duplication is currently being developed I believe, so I’m looking forward to that!
Easy manual import, export and backup (no vendor lock-in is important to me).
Public sharing of your Feedly feeds (we’re getting very meta here!).

Reeder
A (really) beautiful and fast iOS / macOS client

Sam McLeod

A personal endorsement of RSS as the best tool for following news and software releases. The author uses Feedly for subscription management (highlighting features like keyword alerts, IFTTT integration, Dropbox backup, and no vendor lock-in) paired with the Reeder app as a polished iOS/macOS client instead of Feedly's native apps.

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