📰Now you can post your ideas for future innovations and bugs found in the new @bugs miniapp. 🪲 For those who are uncomfortable sitting on the site bugs.telegram.org.

New #gifts #upgrades:
🎁Happy Brownie 100⭐️— from 50K⭐️

also:
🎁Ice Cream 100⭐️— from 50K⭐️
🎁Spring Basket 150⭐️— from 50K⭐️
🎁Instant Ramen 50⭐️— from 50K⭐️
🎁Faith Amule 100⭐️— from 50K⭐️
🎁Mousse Cake 100⭐️— from 50K⭐️

📰📉 At midnight Moscow time, $TON fell to $0.5 per token.


The crypto market plunged sharply, erasing $821 billion in value as major coins fell up to 50%. Over $11 billion in positions were liquidated within 24 hours — a record high. The crash followed Donald Trump’s announcement of a 100% tariff on all Chinese goods starting November 1, 2025, sparking fears of a global market fallout.

📰 These are not paid stories, these are Live Stories, which can be viewed in version 12.1.1. The developer is not broadcasting live stories (not loading) at the moment.

Thanks : 💌💌💌

📰 #tip: If you use Telegram widgets on iOS 26, it is not recommended to include icons for "tinted" and "clear" when configuring the Home screen. The consequence is in the photo.

💻 Telegram #Desktop v6.2:

Comments and reactions in group calls.
Notes for contacts.
Suggested birthdays.
Threads for AI bots.
Reorder gifts collections and stories albums.
Reorder gifts inside collections.
Apply tags instantly when forwarding to Saved Messages.
Choose which screen to show notifications on.
Nice text message sending animation.

v6.2.2:

Fix layer.

🆕 v6.2.3:

Fix crash when viewing messages with hidden senders.
Fix possible crash when editing contacts.
Fix layout of character count warning in contact notes.
Fix icons when editing contacts.
Fix color of sending messages animation in complex themes.
Fix crash in chat open on Flatpak build.

🕓 Previous versions.
⬇️ Download: website or Github.

📰 Don't ask where TDesktop version 6.2.1 is, because Preston "accidentally" released a version with a very interesting premium feature - setting up message repetition during schedule message.

Thanks: 💌💌💌

Deputy Chairman of the Administrative Police Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan Alexey Milyuk said that Durov can be fined up to $70 (about 5,700 rubles).
According to him, Kolsai Lakes are a particularly important protected natural area. The materials on Durov were transferred to the Ministry of Ecology, which is authorized to consider such violations.

📰🅰 Translated excerpt from the Russian-language article.

#meme 📰 A little thing in the blog that few people paid attention to.

Everyone: liquid ass.
Telegram:

📰 Durov will not be fined for swimming in a protected facility like the Middle Kolsai Lake. 🫠 Why? Because there were no signs forbidding swimming near it.

In this regard, there is no violation in these actions. The situation was unintended and did not affect the environmental sustainability of the territory.

👀 The ministry also stated that «since the video was of an image nature and became a demonstration of the natural beauty of Kazakhstan for a wide international audience», «such coverage is a significant contribution to promoting the country's tourism potential».

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📰 The sixth mailing from the service account +42777 to all accounts with a French phone number. 🇫🇷📱 This time the message is sent to the post of Mr. Durov on April 21.

Aujourd’hui, l’Union européenne a failli interdire votre droit à la vie privée. Une loi devait être votée, obligeant les applications à scanner tous les messages privés et transformant chaque téléphone en un outil de surveillance.

La France a été le moteur de ce projet autoritaire, avec le soutien des anciens et actuels ministres de l’Intérieur, Bruno Retailleau et Laurent Nuñez. En mars dernier, ils ont déclaré que la police devrait pouvoir consulter les messages privés des citoyens français (détails ici). Les Républicains et Renaissance, le parti de Macron, ont voté en faveur de cette loi.

De telles mesures censées « lutter contre la criminalité » visent en réalité les citoyens ordinaires. Elles n’arrêteraient pas les criminels — qui pourraient simplement utiliser des VPN ou des sites spéciaux pour se cacher. Les messages des autorités et de la police ne seraient pas non plus surveillés, car la loi les en protège. Seuls VOUS — simples citoyens — risqueriez de voir vos photos et messages privés compromis.

Aujourd’hui, nous avons défendu la vie privée : l'Allemagne, par sa prise de position soudaine, a préservé nos droits. Toutefois, la menace qui pèse sur nos libertés demeure. Alors que les dirigeants français réclament un accès total aux messages privés, les droits fondamentaux des Français — et de tous les Européens — restent menacés.

🇪🇺 Telegram sent this message to all its users in France regarding Chat Control. People must know the names of those who try to steal their freedoms:

Today, the European Union nearly banned your right to privacy. It was set to vote on a law that would force apps to scan every private message, turning everyone’s phone into a spying tool.

France led the push for this authoritarian law. Both former and current Interior Ministers, Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Nuñez, supported it. Last March, they declared that police should see French citizens’ private messages (more info here). The Republicans and Macron’s Renaissance group voted for it.

Such measures are supposed to “fight crime”, but their real target is regular people. It wouldn’t stop criminals — they could just use VPNs or special websites to hide. Officials’ and police messages wouldn’t be scanned either, since the law conveniently exempts them from surveillance. Only YOU — ordinary citizens — would face the danger of your private messages and photos being compromised.

Today, we defended privacy: Germany’s sudden stand saved our rights. But freedoms are still threatened. While French leaders push for total access to private messages, the basic rights of French people — and all Europeans — remain in danger.

📱 Tweet responses from Durov.

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📰 One of the most dangerous Telegram forks has appeared – telega! ⚠️🇷🇺 A Russian Telegram fork recently emerged. It began appearing in Telegram Ads, including aggressive ads after attempting to call another user from the same fork. The name comes from abbreviated slang used to refer to Telegram.

🔍 The channel "bruhcollective." decompiled the .apk file, and here's what we now know:
1. PROXY_ADDRESS leads to VK servers, MYTRACKER_SDK_KEY is a mail.ru tracker (linked to VK), and CALLS_BASE_URL is sent through Odnoklassniki (also linked to VK) (a cherry on top of the MAX messenger).
2. There are ads, also through mail.ru.
3. There's a "proprietary channel blacklist" to restrict users to blogs "undesirable in Russia," and this line isn't in the official client.
4. The client code is partially copied from Catogram*, right down to the variable names.
5. Phone numbers, authorization keys, and a lot of unnecessary data are sent to their servers.
6. The VK Video and VK Clips interfaces are substituted in JS to hide their branding.
7. Icons can be replaced with VK-specific ones.
* bruhcollective owns the Catogram development - @iTysonLab.

❄️ Another danger is that the fork automatically launches their bots and subscribes to their official Telegram channel. This method can lead to account FREEZING, so be careful! Verified by @madrik.

Why did this client appear? There's an explanation. 😠 Simply because the national messenger MAX (also an import-substituting WeChat) failed to lure users en masse from Telegram. This radical approach was chosen due to the revolt against the government's decision to block calls from foreign messengers under the pretext of «fighting fraud» (we covered this), but in reality, more such attacks occur via mobile networks.

Sources: 💌, 💌, 💌