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📰 Pavel Durov was invited and announced as a special guest at Digital Bridge 2025 takes part in the International Forum in the capital Kazakhstan [Astana]. The forum will be held on October 2-4 with the support of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

It was a pleasure to meet with the founder of Telegram and exchange views on the eve of his participation in the Digital Bridge forum in Kazakhstan. His ideas will be a valuable contribution to this global dialogue on innovation and digital transformation.

— words of confirmation from the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the UAE Rauan Zhumabek.

In addition to Durov, some celebrities will come, namely: Valentin Petukhov, John Hopcroft, Peter Norvig, Paul Kim, Lily Liu.

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🎟️ Ticket price = 10,000 tenge, after October 1 it will increase by one and a half times more. However, a V.I.P. ticket costs 700,000 tenge.

📰 The username @username_bot was somehow stolen and put up for sale.
The official bot is used for official username recovery through third-party social networks.

At the time of writing this post, the thief was blocked.

📰 In the same closed beta version, the ability to remove signatures to unique gifts will be added. The price for cleaning a comment is 1000⭐️. However, the option is not available to those gifs that were minted (sent to the TON blockchain).

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📰 The public ß-version of Telegram for iOS 12.1 is available in TestFlight.

What to test?

— Glass

Link to the program: https://testflight.apple.com/join/u6iogfd0

📰 The Telegram iOS 12.1 update will bring a minor update to voice chat, which will also feature the Liquid Glass interface.

Additionally, all voice chats will feature a local mini-chat where you can write messages and leave quick reactions. Streams are not yet receiving this feature.

Are all stories sent from iPad upside down?

— Pavel Durov —

📣 @Durov

📰 Telegram 12.1 on iOS adds the ability to add notes to your contacts. 📝 This is essentially a second bio, but differs in that it can be up to 128 characters long and is visible only to you. To add a note, simply edit your contact.
👾 The feature borrowed from Discord is gradually being rolled out to all users during the beta version.

#failure 📰 Domain Link Previews t.me stopped being generated. However, previews of old links can be provided, and the links themselves are fully functional.

UPD: problem solved.

📰 Bugs have been fixed in the next Telegram 12.1 build on iOS:
- breaking the toolbar when selecting contacts;
- breaking the message input field in horizontal orientation;
- open context menu in toolbar if you hold and move the so-called "bubble";
- the icon has been changed (in fact, only for the testflight page).
Some interface elements have not been switched to Liquid Glass.

📰 Version 12.1 will introduce the ability to suggest birthday dates to your contacts. 🗓 Contacts can choose their own birthday, distinct from your suggested ones. To suggest a birthday date, open your contact's edit screen and click the appropriate button. This feature works even if the contact has previously set a birthday but is hidden from you.

📰 What would an update be without gifts? In 12.1, all the new features related to gifts are:
• For 1000 stars, you can remove description (sender/date/comment) from a gift that hasn't been minted to the blockchain.
• An indicator of the remaining number of possible premium gift sends directly in the "Send Gift" menu.
• The last date of a unique gift sent to you and the date of a rare gift you were given before it was upgraded.
• Detailed information about the price reduction for gift upgrades - the exact date and time of the next and final price reduction.