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Karachi's Quiet Data Brokers Are Fueling South Asia's AI Boom
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Karachi's Quiet Data Brokers Are Fueling South Asia's AI Boom

Railway manifests and utility logs are worth more than gold when you're training regional AI.

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PolitiFact: Why TSA agents remain unpaid during partial government shutdown
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PolitiFact: Why TSA agents remain unpaid during partial government shutdown

Lou Jacobson of PolitiFact explains why airline security fees can't be used to cover their salaries, where the fees go, and whether the Trump administration could reallocate funds to help.

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Sensex, Nifty climb one pc amid ceasefire hopes; oil price drops 7%
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Sensex, Nifty climb one pc amid ceasefire hopes; oil price drops 7%

Sensex opened around 600 points or 0.80 per cent higher at 74,652, while Nifty began trading at 23,064, up 150 points or 0.66 per cent.

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A Pakistani startup is shipping lattice-encrypted field radios faster than NATO tenders ever could.

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