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WellSpan puts $1.5 million donation to use to boost local nursing opportunities (lebtown.com)

Discovery of 'calendar' rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo in US Southwest surpasses 'wildest expectations' (www.livescience.com)

Rise of archery in Andes Mountains dated to 5,000 years ago—earlier than previous research (phys.org)

When did archery arise in the Americas? And what were the effects of this technology on society?...

The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 1 [LWN.net] (lwn.net)

Some corals survive warming waters by 'remembering' heat waves (www.earth.com)

Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China (www.nbcnews.com)

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

In North Korea, torture awaits those deported from China (www.dw.com)

The Economist: Which economy did best in 2023? (www.economist.com)

Greece at #1 thanks to a decade of austerity, Finland at last position thanks to 4 years of leftist expansiory fiscal politics.

Fishpost (randomblogblog24.blogspot.com)

Khronos Finalizes Vulkan Video Extensions for Accelerated H.264 and H.265 Encode (www.khronos.org)

google oauth is broken sort of (trufflesecurity.com)

Initially saw this article from Brian Krebs mastodon account....

I2P 2.4.0 Release with Congestion and NetDB Security improvements - Blog - I2P (geti2p.net)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9756896...

Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza (Human Rights Watch) (www.hrw.org)

Israel: Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza...

Oldest known ship burial discovered in Norway predates Vikings (www.livescience.com)

Mesopotamian bricks unveil the strength of Earth's ancient magnetic field (phys.org)

Ancient bricks inscribed with the names of Mesopotamian kings have yielded important insights into a mysterious anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field 3,000 years ago, according to a new study involving University College London researchers....

Does Less Consumer Tracking Lead to Less Fraud? (www.eff.org)

The highlight of the research is that Apple users were less likely to be victims of financial fraud after Apple implemented the App Tracking Transparency policy. The results showed a 10% increase in the share of Apple users in a particular ZIP code leads to roughly 3% reduction in financial fraud complaints....

National Trust archaeologists find medieval ‘gift token’ in Norfolk (www.theguardian.com)

Polish parliament to host first ever Christmas meal for homeless and others in need | Notes From Poland (notesfrompoland.com)

First discovery of carbon-based cave art in France's Dordogne region could pave way for precise radiocarbon dating (phys.org)

The Dordogne region of southern France is home to over 200 caves decorated with colorful Paleolithic art, but little is known about how old it is. Due to its coloration with iron- or manganese-oxide-based material, radiocarbon dating of the art has not been possible, and it has been generally thought to have been created during...