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U.S. power grid operator PJM, the nation's largest covering much of the East Coast and Midwest, on Friday ordered customers in emergency alert to curb their use, as it battled generator outages, overloaded transmission lines and surging air-conditioning demand during a prolonged heat wave.

PJM Interconnection, which manages the electricity system serving 67 million people in 13 states and the District of Columbia, has issued emergency energy alerts amid expectations that hot summer weather will drive up power demand.

The 13 states are Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

PJM issued two alerts: a maximum generation alert and a load management alert.

India is investigating a data breach at Tata Electronics that exposed documents linked to Apple's unreleased iPhone ‌18 Pro, the country's IT secretary said on Thursday in the government's first public comments on the incident.

Sensitive lists of components and suppliers as well as photos of iPhone 18 Pro models are among files that were ⁠posted on the dark web by a ransomware group that stole data from Tata Electronics, Apple's Indian supplier, Reuters reported.

U.S. power grid operator PJM, the nation's largest covering much of the East Coast and Midwest, on Friday ordered customers in emergency alert to curb their use, as it battled generator outages, overloaded transmission lines and surging air-conditioning demand during a prolonged heat wave.

PJM Interconnection, which manages the electricity system serving 67 million people in 13 states and the District of Columbia, has issued emergency energy alerts amid expectations that hot summer weather will drive up power demand.

The 13 states are Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

PJM issued two alerts: a maximum generation alert and a load management alert.

U.S. power grid operator PJM, the nation's largest covering much of the East Coast and Midwest, on Friday ordered customers in emergency alert to curb their use, as it battled generator outages, overloaded transmission lines and surging air-conditioning demand during a prolonged heat wave.

PJM Interconnection, which manages the electricity system serving 67 million people in 13 states and the District of Columbia, has issued emergency energy alerts amid expectations that hot summer weather will drive up power demand.

The 13 states are Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

The World Bank Group said on Monday it will "retire" its previous goal ‌to devote 45% of its annual lending resources to projects with climate co-benefits, but extend its longstanding Climate Change Action Plan that was due to expire on Tuesday.

The development lender, which had been under pressure from the Trump administration to abandon the climate lending target adopted during the Biden administration in 2023, said in a statement it would complete a shift to focusing on lending outcomes rather than input goals.

The satellites being launched by Amazon are brighter than IAU-recommended limits. It means they’ll interfere with astronomy.

Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO was off to a gangbusters start.

Even at an unprecedented valuation of almost $2 trillion, shares shot into space like precious cargo atop a Falcon 9 rocket, soaring from an opening price of $151 to an all-time high days later of over $225 early Tuesday.

But by mid-week, that initial enthusiasm was met with a brutal reality check. Shares have been trailing since late Tuesday, wiping out almost all of the gains of the average investor who bought shares after the IPO, as CNBC reported on Thursday.

Although the news focuses on the possibility of the US bringing call center and BPO operations back onshore and the possible impact on the larger outsourcing destinations, Pakistan could also be affected, even though its BPO sector is much smaller.

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There are two possible scenarios:

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1. If the U.S. decides to reduce or totally ban offshore call centers and BPO operations from all countries, Pakistan would also lose BPO/call centre business.

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2. If the U.S. targets only a limited number of countries for this rollback, Pakistan may have opportunity to capture a larger share of the market by positioning itself as an alternative outsourcing destination.

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What are your thoughts?

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South Korea's birth rate just climbed to 0.80, up from a record low of 0.72 two years ago. Every headline called it a rebound. It isn’t.

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254,500 newborns in 2025, the highest in fifteen years. Marriages crossed 240,000, the highest since 2018. The numbers look like a comeback.

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But the official presenting the data, Park Hyun-jung, told the room exactly what was driving it.

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One: a generation called the echo boomers, born between 1991 and 1996, are now in their early thirties. That's prime marrying age. A bigger cohort means more weddings and more babies for purely arithmetic reasons.

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Two: Lockdowns collapsed Korean marriages to 191,700 in 2022, the lowest on record. Weddings got rescheduled, banquet halls were locked, family gatherings were forbidden.

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When restrictions lifted, all those delayed weddings started clearing. 2024 saw the largest annual marriage increase since tracking began in 1981. That's a backlog, not new demand.

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Demographers call this the tempo effect. Delayed births eventually arrive, and the headline metric rises, even though no woman is having more children than she always intended.

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Hungary saw the same pattern. Its TFR rose from 1.3 to nearly 1.8 after massive pronatalist spending. Then it fell back to 1.51. The actual long-run effect of all that policy was estimated at about 0.15 children per woman.

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After roughly 2028, the cohort behind the echo boomers becomes the dominant childbearing group. They're much smaller and starting families later than anyone before them.

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The country just photographed a backlog clearing and called it a comeback.