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Reno Is Beating the Odds in Solving Homelessness (www.wsj.com)

The “Biggest Little City in the World” is earning a new distinction: one of the few cities in the West to get large numbers of homeless off its streets....

Wine Wayland Driver Lands Mouselook Support, Relative Cursor Motion (www.phoronix.com)

Friday’s release of Wine 8.22 is expected to be the last bi-weekly feature release before shifting focus to the code freeze and making Wine 9.0 ready for release in early 2024. It’s coming down to the finish line how much more Wine Wayland driver functionality will be merged in time....

Dealing w/ Gov requests for push notifications (simplifiedprivacy.com)

We posted a recent Vice article about the US government requesting nearly all Apple and Google push notifications:...

Temple linked to Hercules and Alexander the Great discovered in ancient megacity in Iraq (www.livescience.com)

Archaeologists in Iraq have unearthed twin temples built on top of each other. The newer, Hellenistic temple dates to the fourth century B.C. and may have a link to Alexander the Great....

Ancient Balkan genomes trace the rise and fall of Roman Empire's frontier, reveal Slavic migrations (phys.org)

A multidisciplinary study has reconstructed the genomic history of the Balkan Peninsula during the first millennium of the common era, a time and place of profound demographic, cultural and linguistic change....

New Surgeon General Advisory Raises Alarm about the Devastating Impact of the Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation in the United States (www.hhs.gov)

Alpine Linux 3.19 Released with Linux Kernel 6.6 LTS and Raspberry Pi 5 Support (alpinelinux.org)

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Inhabited Beauty - For beautiful pictures of still-inhabited towns, cities, and other architecture (kbin.social)

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100 Million Firmware Updates Supplied By The LVFS – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes (blogs.gnome.org)

Nepal calls on Russia not to deploy its Gurkhas in Ukraine war (www.independent.co.uk)

Afghan Hazara refugees live in fear of being deported by Pakistan (www.bbc.com)

Global Conflict Tracker l Council on Foreign Relations (www.cfr.org)

Israeli forces battle Hamas in southern Gaza, humanitarian concerns grow (www.reuters.com)

Switzerland returns marble head around 2,000 years old to Libya (www.africanews.com)

(Romanian) Ex-PM Florin Cîțu heard at the DNA in the Vaccine Case: I Complied with the Legislation In Force (www.romaniajournal.ro)

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SAG-AFTRA Members Ratify New Three-Year Contract With Studios (deadline.com)

World carbon dioxide emissions increase again, driven by China, India and aviation (apnews.com)

How Martin Scorsese Uses Music to Enhance His Visions (www.rogerebert.com)

Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominations 2024 (deadline.com)

Nigeria airstrike 'mistakenly' kills worshippers at religious festival (www.bbc.com)

Hunting of straight-tusked elephants was widespread among Neanderthals 125,000 years ago, finds study (phys.org)

Hunting the now extinct straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was widespread among Neanderthals, concludes a research team consisting of members of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA), also based in Mainz, and Leiden University in the Netherlands. The study has...