✔️ Major is now a crown — the verification icon has been replaced with the Telegram star icon.

No, this is simply a new "elite" verification for those in the top-50 by $MAJOR token holdings. Anyone can obtain it if they meet the requirements.

🤩 Two new features are being prepared for Telegram 12.6.

🪄 AI-powered text editing. There's a 99% chance that COCOON will be used as the AI ​​for this task. This feature allows you to translate the entire text into another language, choose from several preset styles, and correct errors. You can also optionally create a result with emoji.

📊 Updated polls. The design will be updated, with icons for each parameter. You can now attach a main photo with a caption for each answer option. New features include: prohibition of re-voting, poll deadline, and shuffling options. "Quiz mode" will be renamed to "Set Correct Answer".

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😀 AI tools for text editing will be Premium subscription. However, for free users there will be an opportunity to use it several times, and it is expected that the number of the attempts for premium users will be 50 times more.

😀 The music player in Telegram 12.6 for iOS has been updated. The controls have been moved to the bottom, and the interface has been redesigned to align with the Liquid Glass aesthetic. To remove music from your personal playlist, simply long-press on the track.

🎶 Just like in the Android client, the ability to search through your saved tracks has been added. You can now add songs either from files previously shared in your chats or directly from your device's local storage —adding music from local storage does not consume space in your Telegram cache.

On the right is the old player design, which hasn't been updated in a long time.

😀 News is circulating that experts have discovered a critical zero-day vulnerability in Telegram, which requires no OS privileges or victim interaction. 3Side specialists note that any Telegram account can be hacked remotely over the network and is characterized by low exploitation complexity. The vulnerability received a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10 and is registered in the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) registry under ZDI-CAN-30207.

⏳ Telegram is aware of this, as they received the information on March 26, but they have 120 days to fix the vulnerability, otherwise the breach will be disclosed.

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/upcoming/#ZDI-CAN-30207

This vulnerability does not exist. The researcher falsely claims that a corrupted Telegram sticker can be used as an attack vector, while completely ignoring the fact that all stickers uploaded to Telegram are checked on servers before they can be played in Telegram applications.

📰 Telegram press service responded to the critical zero-day vulnerability.