Technology

• Xinbi Guarantee is a Chinese-language, Telegram-based marketplace serving fraudsters in South East Asia, including those responsible for so-called “pig butchering” scams.
• Merchants on the marketplace sell technology, personal data and money laundering services. The USDT stablecoin is the primary payment method, with the market having received $8.4 billion in transactions to date. Some transactions can be linked to funds stolen by North Korea.
• Xinbi Guarantee claims to operate through Xinbi Co. Ltd, incorporated in Colorado.

In the first quarter, total revenue was $121 million, a decrease of 30% year-over-year. This includes Subscription Services revenue of $108 million. We had 3.2 million subscribers during the quarter, representing a year-over-year decline of 31%.

we regrettably will be parting ways with approximately 22% or 248 of our talented team members

Starting May 12, with All In Prices, you’ll be able to find tickets within your budget right away, with no surprises at checkout. That’s because you’ll see the cost of your ticket—including fees, before taxes—from the moment you start shopping for any Ticketmaster event in the U.S.

More importantly, we’re all in on putting fans first. We’ve long advocated for all-in pricing laws worldwide, and support a consistent ticket-buying experience for fans.

As the U.S. deepens its support for Israel, social media has become both a site of political awareness and a tool of control, where anti-war dissent is tracked, flagged, and punished offline as well.

App-based digital salary payments are yet to gain traction in Japan two years after being introduced, with only a fraction of workers choosing the option despite the nation slowly trending towards a cashless future.

Aerospace giants Boeing and Rolls-Royce have hired lobbyists to try to prevent the US Congress from introducing further sanctions against Russia, Novaya Gazeta Europe has discovered after analysing the information published on the US House of Representatives’ lobbying disclosure website.

• Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Google for relabelling the Gulf of Mexico in its Maps app.
• The big tech firm did so after receiving instructions to do so by the Trump administration.
• The region’s name is displayed as Gulf of Mexico with Gulf of America in brackets for Maps users outside the US.