📰 Thanks to the Telegram Desktop update, which added a future feature for preview of possible models from auctions of gifts, colors, and symbols, you can now discover new models that might drop from the "UFC Mystery Box". Surprisingly, in the "Symbols" section, you can also discover unique symbols in background that can be found in these gifts. Perhaps this is why the developers have been testing the auctions so many times.

✅ The photo doesn't show all the new attributes, but you can see for yourself.

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🎁 In the auction of this gift, the number of rounds has been doubled (120 → 240). At the same time, the number of gifts has not changed, so that the number of gifts per round has halved (500 → 250).

Thanks: 💌💌💌

📰 Passkeys are working on the main server. 🔑 You can now enable Passkeys on the production server—the most secure way to log in to your Telegram account. To do this, go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Passkeys. 🔑 When adding a Passkey, you can select this device to save the Passkey to, or transfer it to another device (in which case you'll need to scan a QR code). Adding or logging in via this method requires biometrics, but deleting it is not necessary.

🛡 They are more secure than emails with codes because Passkeys are impossible to intercept. Passkeys are useful for those whose email accounts are blocked or who are unable to access their email service.

Additionally: ur cloud password still needs to be entered.

📰 A story about the announcement of the 🎁new gift auction, from the Telegram account +42777. 🚩Sales start in a quarter of a day.

@NewsAndTipsNT 📰

✈️ Telegram For Android
◾️ Version: 12.2.10
◾️ Build: 6341

Directly downloadable from :

• http://telegram.org/android
• https://telegram.org/dl/android/apk
• https://t.me/TAndroidAPK

OR

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.messenger

What's New:

- Bug fixes

#Stable #New #Telegram

🔄Previous Version

📱 Tweet responses from Durov. 🇪🇺 And again about blaming the European Union.

Pavel Durov ✅ @durov
The EU weaponizes people’s strong emotions about child protection to push mass surveillance and censorship. Their surveillance law proposals conveniently exempted EU officials from having their own messages scanned — and David’s post helps explain why.

DHH ✅ @dhh
A former high-ranking member of the same Social Democrats party that's behind this proposal was just awarded an early parliamentary pension after being convicted of owning thousands of CSA videos and images. Save The Children cover is bullshit. https://t.co/92RycUIaHl

Daniel Vávra ⚔️ ✅ @DanielVavra
FUCK CENSORSHIP. A sad day in the EU. Denmark is pushing us towards universal internet censorship under the guise of protecting children. This morning, Chat Control was passed in the European Council (despite opposition from the Czech Republic). Now, a resolution has been approved in the European Parliament calling for children under the age of 16 to be denied access to the internet.

Pavel Durov ✅ @durov
The EU imposes impossible rules so it can punish tech firms that refuse to silently censor free speech. We saw the same in France: a baseless “criminal investigation”, then intelligence services offering to help with it if @telegram quietly censored speech in Romania and Moldova.

Elon Musk ✅ @elonmusk
The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.
The other platforms accepted that deal.
𝕏 did not.

Margrethe Vestager @vestager
In our view @X doesn’t comply with the DSA in key transparency areas. It misleads users, fails to provide adequate ad repository and blocks access to data for researchers. It’s the first time we issue preliminary findings under the Digital Services Act. 👇 https://t.co/WtJ65GPwQY

Pavel Durov ✅ @durov
The EU exclusively targets platforms that host inconvenient or dissenting speech (Telegram, X, TikTok…). Platforms that algorithmically silence people are left largely untouched, despite far more serious illegal content issues.

PeterSweden ✅ @PeterSweden7
It's real simple.
The EU fined X €120 million because this is where the mainstream media narrative gets exposed.

Pavel Durov ✅ @durov
@FrenchResponse @Parisianaes1 The EU’s DSA has nothing to do with the anti-tech criminal investigations launched by France. In fact, the DSA doesn’t even have a criminal dimension. France completely ignored the DSA process when addressing its requests to Telegram.

📰✅ Passkeys are available to EVERYONE. 🔑 According to @tginfo, 🇷🇺 they were previously available primarily to Russians, as they had significant authorization issues. Passkey had to be added as an authorization method, as both SMS and email could be unavailable or blocked.

✔️As a reminder, this feature is only available on the following clients:
Telegram for Android 12.2.10,
Telegram for iOS 12.2.3,
Telegram Desktop 6.3.6, but only on Windows 10/11 (it supports Windows Hello).
✔️You can also choose your own password manager.

Thanks: 💌💌💌
Windows Hello Instruction: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configure-windows-hello-…

📰🔞 Ashoo, a Telegram bot for finding Russian escorts and prostitutes, decided to replicate the success of NFT gifts, which featured a collaboration with Khabib Nurmagomedov, back in (almost) late November. Since Durov's personal messages are extremely expensive, they decided to collect stars through star reactions to a post that had accumulated just over 5000 stars.

Of the several gifts, they personally own these: 6×🚀, 3×🚀, 10×🗓.

📰 Spam in user private messages has become more frequent. 🫡 This message is entirely in Chinese, and the screenshot claims that Chinese entrepreneurs are offering to rent energy for transfers on the TRON network without commission for just 0.01 TRX, while the usual transfer fee is around 20 TRX.
The spam was created via @postad, which allows you to bypass the restriction that hyperlinks (even usernames) no longer work in new chats from unknown contacts.

What should you do?
1. Restrict incoming messages, at least set them to "premium users only" or, better yet, pay for messages with stars.
2. If you receive a message, click "Block" at the top, set two checkboxes, and confirm the action.

✔️ Telegram promptly deletes these spam messages by freezing accounts, but the spammers don't give up – after appealing, they can recreate their accounts.

Information: 💌💌💌

📰 Kaspersky Lab tracked the life cycle of fraudulent communities on Telegram and found that they last an average of seven months. After that, they migrate en masse to decentralized messaging apps like Simple X. Securitylab.ru reports on this.

👮‍♂️ Experts point out that Telegram is inferior to dedicated, secure messaging apps in terms of privacy, where "paper plane" doesn't use end-to-end encryption in cloud chats, where these servers are centralized, adding that the server code is closed. Based on data from the aforementioned Russian lab, out of 800 blocked resources, the average lifespan in 2021-22 was five months, while in 2023-24, it was nine months. This doesn't mean the persecution has abated.

🏰 Cybercriminals were trying to survive longer on Telegram. For example, they switched to a private mode with requests, or published harmless messages to disguise themselves, or added disclaimers and statements about the legality of the content. None of this prevents blocks, as the option to report them remains, and Telegram has tightened its content moderation.

🛳 In 2025, the BFRepo group (9k+ subscribers) announced its move to SimpleX, and Angel Drainer decided to create its own messenger with support for crypto protocols, which they recommend Telegram users move to those who prioritize privacy. ☝️ And remember one thing: all this doesn't mean the number of cyberthreats will decrease—criminal communities are solving the problem, where Telegram is emerging from the period when it was a mainstay for cybercriminals.

📰 iOS users are receiving a pop-up asking them to update to version 12.2.4, as versions 12.2.3 and earlier will soon no longer work. 🤔 Users can choose to ignore this request and continue using older versions. If you agree, you'll be redirected to App Store.

UPD: this window will appear with every launch until you update to 12.2.4 (142,9 MB) or 12.3 (available in beta).

🤷‍♂️ The reason for this is currently unknown. Regarding compatibility, Telegram works with all iPhones running iOS 13 or later.