I treat industry news as a glimpse of the far future. I.e. I read about some "awesome new database", and I try to make a mental note to check in 5 years which c

I treat industry news as a glimpse of the far future. I.e. I read about some "awesome new database", and I try to make a mental note to check in 5 years which companies totally failed on it and why, and which companies use it with some success and if so for what use cases. But yes...don't use industry news to guide your decisions. Let other suckers do that for you, and then you can avoid their mistaken :-)