Ask HN: Solution to follow breaking news without browsing

I waste multiple hours each day on Reddit and HN. My solution to this is that I sign up for Sunday morning digests that give me the top 20 posts from the past week. I’d like to stay up to date with current important events (stuff like the evergiven ship, COVID status updates, major scandals, etc) without wasting time reading fluff. If I download a typical news aggregator app like Google News, I know that it will simply become the scrolling habit that Reddit and HN were. Can anyone think of any solutions for this? I’d be willing to pay a subscription.