📱 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.

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📰 12.2 and new innovations.

1. Repeating messages. It was first encountered only in Desktop 6.2.1. The Premium feature. The function is located when schedule a message that has been redesigned for Liquid Glass. Allows you to repeat sending this message once a day/week/2weeks/month/quarter/half/year. It is unknown in which types of chats it will work.

2. Stream stories. Closed testing. It will be possible to broadcast live in form of stories. You can also comment on live broadcasts. And for those who want to highlight from everyone and pin their message, it will be possible to donate stars for the author. The list (not final) is below:
⭐️ 1-9 — 30sec, 30chars.
⭐️ 10-49 — 1min, 60chars, 1emoji.
⭐️ 50-99 — 2min, 80chars, 2emoji.
⭐️ 100-249 — 5min, 110chars, 3emoji.
⭐️ 250-499 — 10min, 150chars, 4emoji.
⭐️ 500-1999 —15min, 200chars, 7emoji.
⭐️ 2K-9999 — 30min, 280chars, 10emoji.
⭐️ 10K — 1h, 400chars, 20emoji.

📰 Roskomnadzor today conducted exercises to block Telegram and WhatsApp.
🤡 They said that allegedly these platforms became the main ones for fraud/extortion of money, as well as involvement in sabotage/terrorism, while the platforms ignored their requests to take measures to the above-mentioned counteraction.

In order to counter criminals, in accordance with the materials of law enforcement agencies, measures are being taken to partially restrict the work of foreign messengers.

🛜 In particular, among the cities of the Russian Federation, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi, Adygea were affected; Wi-Fi does not work either. VPN helps to solve the problem.

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📰 Version 12.2 will add a new privacy setting — Saved Music. The setting allows you to choose who can view your audio saved in your profile and who can’t.

🔒 And the switcher will be added to the «Gifts» settings, which allows you to receive gifts from channels (why?). But this is a premium feature.

📰 User @yehudalev showed what query response generation for AI bots actually looks like. This typing animation is expected to work in groups with such bots.

If you know to program you need to use: raw.functions.messages.CreateForumTopic (pyrogram)

🤔 But the paradox is that @askplexbot hasn't yet received topics after this update, and instead, this bot's performance has slightly degraded. The Bot API was last updated in mid-August, adding checklist handling and direct messaging to channels.
🤷‍♂️ So yes, it's strange to announce it on his blog if the feature might not even be running on the production server.

#Tip 📰 How to set up the same channel in different profiles?

1️⃣ Everyone must have a session logged in a day or more ago, and the cloud password must be at least a week old.
2️⃣ Go to profile editing, select the personal channel option, and choose the desired one.
3️⃣ Transfer channel ownership rights to the desired person. Go to Settings > Administrators, assign all rights, and select the dedicated button.
➖ Repeat steps again until the original admin regains channel ownership rights.
4️⃣ If necessary, edit the channel admin rights for all affected admins.

The source (💌💌💌) reports that some people are reporting that Telegram developers are intentionally leaving this trick enabled. It's been working since the release.

📰 Android R E D E S I G N

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And no, this is not a transition to Android Material Expressive, it's just that the client decided to repeat the redesign (previously — chat profile) of iOS again, changing some parts of the interface element. As you can see, they have been updated:
- message entry panel
- lower channel panel
- "join the group"

😉 iOS has also made some progress in the redesign, more on that later.

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