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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday November 03 2015, @12:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the moving-into-the-21st-century dept.

El Reg reports

Rupert Murdoch's flagship British tabloid, The Sun, is to abandon its paywall in search of greater web traffic as it seeks to compete with big online news hitters such as the Daily Mail.

[...] News UK's chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, said in a company-wide email: "I recently shared with you the future priorities for the company and am excited today to tell you more about our plans for the first of these: growing The Sun's audience. This will mean setting The Sun predominantly free in the digital world from November 30. By happy coincidence, this is also Cyber Monday, one of the best-performing days of the year for online retail."

[...] Fans of the racy Page 3 feature will probably be disappointed to learn that Lucy from Daventry and her skimpily clad pals will be placed on an entirely separate website.[1] In the interests of accurate reporting, your correspondent visited said website and can confirm that, at the time of writing, you still have to hand over your hard-earned beer tokens to see something you can easily get with 10 seconds spent on Google image search.

[1] Content is behind scripts.


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @01:10AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @01:10AM (#257768)

    Valve should pre-release their games as open beta for the Linux platform before they launch the title on Windows.

    Linux users are good at testing, writing detailed bug reports, with step-by-step instructions how to reproduce bugs, attach screenshots, etc and are familiar with bug management and bug tracking systems such as Bugzilla, Launchpad and GitHub. Many have familiarity with debuggers too.

    -uid313

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @01:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @01:14AM (#257771)

    and they're also good at bitching when developers don't volunteer their time and expertise making software for the masses