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New World disables wealth transfers as item dupes ruin in-game economy

Enlarge / Artist’s conception of New World players watching their in-game investments explode. (credit: Amazon Games ) Amazon has shut down wealth transfers in New World for the second time in a month, hobbling the in-game economy in an attempt to limit the particular damage from yet another product duplication bug in the popular MMO. […]

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Instruments on Hubble in safe mode; NASA trying to understand why

Enlarge / Hubble Space Telescope above Earth, photographed during STS-125, Servicing Mission 4, May 2009. (credit: NASA) On Monday, NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope’s science instruments were in an extended shutdown after problems appeared in late October. The issues arose as failed internal communications caused the science instruments to switch into safe mode […]