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Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messaging app, said he is facing a Russian criminal investigation on charges of “aiding terrorism.” ...

Russia’s communications regulator is continuing to crack down on apps like Telegram and WhatsApp while rolling out a state-backed alternative, Max. Russia’s communications regulator is continuing to ...

Having long ago seen the handwriting on the wall for the journalism profession with the debut of GenAI, I decided to just cut to the chase and build my replacement now.

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After introducing little bits and pieces last year, Telegram’s new update on Android is going all-in on Liquid Glass with new design elements throughout the UI in what is a pretty major redesign.

The throttling of the communication app, used by more than 100 million Russians, endangers what remains of the country’s free internet. By Paul Sonne and Oleg Matsnev Reporting from Berlin Russia on ...

TON Pay’s new SDK lets Telegram Mini Apps accept Toncoin and stablecoins in a single, low-fee checkout flow, seeking to make TON a payments rail for its 1.1 billion monthly active users. The Open ...

Russian authorities have begun restricting access to Telegram, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, as the government continues to push everyday Russians toward its own tightly ...

The Russian government is trying to block WhatsApp in the country as its crackdown on communication platforms outside its control intensifies. WhatsApp announced the action against it on X, calling it ...

Telegram billionaire Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov vowed to resist Russian authorities’ attempts to restrict access to the popular messenger in order to make people use the Kremlin-backed app ...

Instead of requiring users to provision their own hardware or Virtual Private Servers (VPS), KiloClaw runs on a multi-tenant Virtual Machine (VM) architecture powered by Fly.io ...