I could see this going both ways. If it’s important historically and the owners want to demolish it then the city or some org should bid to buy it and maintain it. Otherwise why should the private owner be forced to maintain a dilapidated property.

Tech news is so general. Consumer hardware? Datacenter hardware? Robotics? Mining equipment?

Could be basically any industry at all.

But yeah Hackernews, Arstechnica, and more specific items like LWN and personal blogs for programmers/creators I admire and find interesting.