Is the new preprint "An Algorithm For Factoring Integers" by Yingpu Deng and Yanbin Pan worth reading?
If you have to ask, you are probably not the intended audience. Quoting the introduction of the paper:


  We implemented our method on a PC using Shoup’s NTL library version 5.4.1 [7].
  Unfortunately, we have to say that the practical effect of our method is not good on a
  single PC, it is worse than many known algorithms on this problem. However, we believe
  that our method yields interesting phenomena, and it is worth for further study.