I use a small Ruby script that fetches some RSS feeds and creates a static HTML page with that content. The script gets executed via cronjob and is hosted locally on my machine, served via python's integrated web server. That way I have basically no loading time when opening a new tab and I'm independant from 3rd party services that close down or change in unwanted ways.
I use the 'New Tab Redirect' extension to set a local web page for new tabs in Chromium.
I use the 'New Tab Redirect' extension to set a local web page for new tabs in Chromium.