Plough your own furrow; keep your practical knowledge and skills up-to-date as much as you can. But do so aligned with your own goals.
Being up to date with generic "news" is not really that important. Don't allow yourself to think it's bad if you miss a news story. If it is important or significant it will filter down to you.
+1. Unless you want to spend a huge amount of time trying to keep up with the state of the art, just follow simonw. The links in the comment above are great.
Plough your own furrow; keep your practical knowledge and skills up-to-date as much as you can. But do so aligned with your own goals.
Being up to date with generic "news" is not really that important. Don't allow yourself to think it's bad if you miss a news story. If it is important or significant it will filter down to you.
X/Twitter is too irony/vaguepost filled that relying on it for high-signal news actually makes you less informed.
https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/
https://github.com/sponsors/simonw
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simonw