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🇪🇺 The EU wants to force mandatory ID checks on anyone using social media — and ban people under 18 from accessing it. To that end, the EU Commission spent over a year building an “age verification app”, which its president pompously unveiled yesterday. Today, this app got hackedin just 2 minutes. But don’t rush to laugh at EU bureaucrats. Their age verification app was hackable by design — it trusted the device (that’s instant game over). Unless the EU is run by clowns 🤡, this is their real plan: Step 1 — Present a “privacy-respecting” but hackable app. Step 2 — Get hacked (*YOU ARE HERE*). Step 3 — Remove privacy to “fix” the app. Result — a surveillance tool sold as “privacy-respecting”. The EU bureaucrats needed an excuse to silently start turning their “privacy-respecting” age verification app into a surveillance mechanism over all Europeans using social media. Today’s “surprising hack” just handed this excuse to them. 🦇Stay vigilant!

🚨 Another proof that Telegram’s Secret Chats are the most secure way to communicate. The FBI got access to deleted messages in US gov-funded app Signal just by checking the notifications data. On Telegram, Secret Chats never show message content in push notifications, so, unlike Signal and other supposedly secure apps, we don’t have this risk. 🔛 Turning off notification previews won’t make you safe if you use those apps, because you never know whether the people you message have done the same. So Telegram’s Secret Chats design that forces the absence of notifications previews is the only solution. Obviously, this hurts usability, that’s why Telegram has two types of chats: Secret and Cloud. 🤹 In general, apps that are trying to provide both security and usability in ONE type of chat end up with ugly compromises — like WhatsApp leaking 95% of messages via unencrypted backups or Signal exposing messages through push notifications. The only way is to have two types of chats: 100% usable (Cloud) and 100% secure (Secret). 📆 12+ years passed since Telegram started the end-to-end encryption revolution by launching Secret Chats. Since then, dozens of apps followed suit and made bold claims about their encryption. But no app has been able to beat our Cloud Chats in usability and our Secret Chats in security. Their try to mix the two and get neither.

🚀 The TON blockchain just got upgraded and is now 10× faster. ⚡️ Block rate increased 6×. ⏱ Transactions are now instant, subsecond. 🪙 This was step 1 of 7 to Make TON Great Again (MTONGA). Next step: cut the already low transaction fees by 6×. ✂️

💎 TON is Now Up to 6x Faster Sub-second finality is live. Transactions now confirm in about 1 second, down from around 10 seconds before. Block times dropped from 2.5 seconds to 400 milliseconds to bring the on-chain experience closer to Web2 responsiveness. What this unlocks: Payments that feel like sending a message, trades that execute in real time, and apps that match the speed users expect from any modern product. What this changes: The network now produces more blocks, which increases validator rewards and strengthens staking incentives across the ecosystem. For developers: The blockchain is now fast. Your apps need to show it. Upgrade to streaming APIs to surface sub-second speed for your users. 👉Docs TON Community| TON Dev News | TON Regional| X| YouTube | LinkedIn| TON.org

🇪🇺 The EU is trying to justify its push for more surveillance (Chat Control) and censorship (DSA) via controlled NGOs and media. AI Forensics, a Soros-funded contractor to the European Commission, is telling us that Telegram is a PROBLEM because people can discuss content from OTHER social media in PRIVATE telegram groups (see the screenshot from state-owned France24 below). 📣 The crazy narrative of this "non-governmental" organization is distributed by globalist outlets (El País, Der Spiegel, Wired) and AFP (France’s “ITAR-TASS”), which is carbon-copied by the “free” French press (Le Parisien, 20 Minutes, Ouest-France, Le Figaro). I doubt anyone still takes these organizations seriously 🤡 — most of them lost people's trust during the COVID era. But it’s important to call out all such attempts at public manipulation, because they are used to take away what's left of our freedoms. 🗽

😎 Telegram was banned in Russia — yet 65M Russians still use it daily via VPNs, with 50M+ sending messages every day. The government has spent years trying to ban VPNs too. Their blocking attempts just triggered a massive banking failure — cash briefly became the only payment method nationwide yesterday. 😂 🧊 Iran banned Telegram years ago, with a result similar to Russia. The government hoped for mass adoption of its surveillance messaging apps, but got mass adoption of VPNs instead. Now 50M members of the Digital Resistance in Iran are joined by 50M+ more in Russia. 😙 🤝 Welcome back to the Digital Resistance, my Russian brothers and sisters. The entire nation is now mobilized to bypass these absurd restrictions. Thousands are building VPNs and proxies. On our end, we’ll keep adapting — making Telegram’s traffic harder to detect and block. ✊

⚠️ JUST IN: Telegram to warn users about unofficial clients Telegram is set to introduce a security alert for chats with users on third-party clients, warning that messages may be less secure. The feature aims to increase awareness of privacy risks linked to unofficial Telegram apps. 🔔@Serbadgernews • 💬Join community •

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⚠️ JUST IN: Hong Kong retiree loses $840K in multi-scam crypto fraud A retiree in Hong Kong lost $840K after falling victim to multiple scams involving fake crypto experts, who convinced them to invest through fraudulent platforms. @Serbadgernews

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Today's cryptocurrency newsletter 🥳☕️ Today's currency prices: 💸 BTC $74,300 🤑 ETH $2,325 🤑 Ton $1.34 🛢 Brent $104 📈 Fear and Greed Index: 28 - 'Fear' only 🙏 The market is in the green today, Bitcoin has returned to $75,000 and most altcoins are on the rise. Top morning news: 📌 Elon Musk's xAI is hiring Wall Street bankers, portfolio managers, and traders to train Grok in financial modeling. 📌 Argentina bans Polymarket and orders Google and Apple to remove its app, considering it an unlicensed betting platform without user verification 📌 Rowe Price has filed an application to amend its exchange-traded fund "Active Crypto", adding SUI to a list of 15 other assets.