In a network there was a judicial act against the Telegram Group Inc. and TON Issuer Inc


It States that the defendant may file a counter-statement not later than October 18.

The hearing will be held on October 24 at 11:00 GMT-4 (October 23 18:00 MSK) in the court of new York.

#TON #crypt #courts

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Telegram launched a competition for better call quality

The objective of the first round of the competition:
Create two applications in C++ for testing and assessing the quality of voice calls.

Details: contest.com/docs/voip (in Russian: contest.com/docs/voip/ru).

The contest budget: $50 000
Ends — 26 October at 23:59 Moscow time

Detailed requirements for bidders, see Voice Calls Contest, also do the submission for participation — @jobs_bot.

#contest

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In beta version of Telegram for Android, with a finger down while viewing chat or channel information, the user will deploy the avatar in full size, with the ability to scroll through photos.

A similar type of profile display, but without the ability to flip photos, appeared in the recent Telegram X update for Android.

#Beta #Android #TelegramX

In Telegram gone preview video from YouTube

The developers of the messenger aware of the issue and trying to solve it, simultaneously otshuchivayas in Twitter.

In addition, they noted that it seems that the presence of the preview depends on whether it was generated previously.

Users say that a similar problem exists in other social networks, and it is associated with the Goole API.

#bugs

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Telegram for Android was updated to version 5.12 (1744)

What's new:
— Updated the display of the profile when using swipe.
— Fixed crash due to some stickers.
— In the sidebar returned items create group and private chats.
— Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Download c Google Play, APK from APKMirror or with our channel.

#update #android

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Telegram is ready to postpone the launch TON to 30 April 2020

This is stated in the filed court petition the SEC lawsuit against the company.

In addition, the investors were sent a letter proposing to agree to the postponement of the launch of TON to 30 April 2020.

If the majority of investors refuse to agree to extend the deadline of their contract to purchase Gram will terminate on October 31, and Telegram "expect that they will receive compensation" in the amount of approximately 77% of the invested amount.

Read more in the article: tginfo.me/ton-vs-sec-2

#TON #crypt #courts

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The Director of the FSB, at whose request Telegram is blocked in Russia, called the conflict with the only serious Telegram to the office

In the main, by the FSB noted that "...Telegram works on the territory of other countries with representatives including intelligence enables them to use their resources".

However, no examples and evidence of cooperation of the messenger with the intelligence agencies of other countries Bortnikov failed.

"Can there be freedom without security?" — said Bortnikov.

It should be noted that in the Telegram there is freedom and security.

interfax.ru/russia/680761

#lock

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The SEC asks the court not to grant an application Telegram

The Commission on securities and stock exchanges of the USA does not consider sufficient obligation who are willing to take on Telegram Group Inc. regarding the postponement to a later date of the launch of its blockchain platform TON, and suspend for five months of operations for the cryptocurrency Gram. The regulator insists that the court should establish appropriate bans to the end of the proceedings.
This is evidenced by documents received on Thursday in the electronic database of the Federal court for the southern district of new York.

The Commission emphasizes that the Telegram believes the proposed terms are unacceptable. ""The practical effect of the proposals of the defendants is that they would be able to commit crimes in five months, and saddled the Commission with the need to get new court orders to ban"" the document reads.
Representatives of the regulator also believe that the Telegram did not offer convincing arguments to refute the allegations of the Commission regarding the fact that Gram should be considered "securities" and not cryptocurrency. The regulator filed the claim insists on this view and emphasizes that Gram should apply the securities legislation.

https://tass.ru/ekonomika/7015142

#TON #crypt #courts

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Hearings on the suit of US regulators to Telegram scheduled for February 18

Hearings are scheduled for February 18 at 11:00 am GMT-4 (19:00 GMT+3).

As the correspondent of TASS from the courtroom, the decision was made by the judge of the district court for the southern district of Manhattan Kenneth Kestrel.

"In case of need hearing will be continued on 19 February," he said, demanding that the parties had submitted all documents in the case to January 27.

tass.ru/ekonomika/7018470

#courts

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Telegram for macOS has been updated to version 5.8

What's new:
— Updated design of some sections of the settings.
— Updated design of the "Shared media".
— Updated the app's logo.
— Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Since version 5.8, the installation of the client requires macOS 10.12+.

You can download it from the website of the Telegram, or a little later from the AppStore.

#update #macOS

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Came to an end the competitions for the creation of animated stickers and cloud topics.

There were 340 topics from 278 participants and 296 sets of animated stickers.

Everyone can get acquainted with the works on the website competitions. In sections with animated stickers and cloud topics.

All works participating in the contest can't be edited until the results announcement on October 27.

#contests

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The special representative of the President said that in Russia there is no ban on the use of Telegram

The special representative of the RF President on the issues of digital and technological development, Dmitry Peskov, said that the Telegram messenger in Russia is not prohibited for use. In particular, he is involved in the management of the network project on the basis of Russian universities, cited Peskov, answering the question of how it relates to the prohibition of the messenger.

"The first Telegram in Russia is not prohibited. Second, they don't just use it, and today we have a network which is based on [the basis of] 150+ Russian universities, and it is for their management uses Telegram-channels", — said the special representative of the President, speaking at a session of the international forum "Open innovations" in Technopark "SKOLKOVO".

tass.ru/politika/7024971

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On GitHub was discovered the organization "Desktop App Toolkit" is a collection library related with TON.

The main developer of Telegram Desktop John Preston for a month working on the library "lib_ton", but declined to comment on the appointment of the library.

In the "Desktop App Toolkit" also has a library for spell checking: "lib_spellcheck". And this may mean that further down the road in Telegram Desktop, you will be spell check entered text.

#desktop

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On the official channel of the contests in the Contests Telegram recalled that the system of likes/dislikes allowed to contest.com affects which records the judges see first.

User ratings do not affect the results of the competition, as is the quality.

#contest

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Dmitry Peskov called the situation with what is happening with Telegram contradictory, evolving "in a negative scenario,"

"From the point of view of technological development of promising services messenger (such as TON) can bring many benefits and become the underlying infrastructure for the digital economy. However, the refusal of cooperation with national regulators (for example, an attempt to issue cryptocurrency) dramatically increases the risk is the prohibition of the use of the service, and around the world, not only in Russia. Therefore, in Russia ILV [Roskomnadzor], US SEC [Commission on securities and exchange Commission, SEC] should do its work on <...> the State projects, obviously, to use the service should not", — is spoken in the message published on the page Peskov in the social network.

Previously, the same Peskov said Telegram is not prohibited in Russia.

facebook.com/peskov/posts/10159120700564488

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Russian investors blockchain-platform Telegram will not demand a refund because of the postponement of the launch of TON

The company offered investors to wait for the launch of TON until April 2020 or return the money because of claims of U.S. authorities.

Today October 23rd is the deadline when the investors in the TON must take a decision whether they are ready to wait for the launch of the platform until 30 April, or want to return 77% of the total investment in the project.

Seven of the nine respondents Forbes Russian investors said they did not plan to demand repayment of the investment. Some of them optimistic. Another source said he did not believe in the project, but the money back to ask is not — "I will think about how to go to zero," he explained.

forbes.ru/tehnologii/385955-budu-dumat-kak-vyyti-v-nol-kto-iz-investorov-v-kriptovalyutu-durova-mozhet

#TON

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Investors TON agreed not to demand back the invested funds after the suspension of the ICO

This was announced Forbes and RBC with reference to its sources.

Investors in the blockchain-the Telegram Open platform Network (TON) approved the postponement of the launch of the platform and refused to demand a refund. The decision was made to investors in both rounds of funding TON majority, told Forbes two sources close to the command Telegram. RBC information has informed a source close to Telegram and confirmed one of the investors in the TON.

#TON #kripta

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Update TDLib soon!

The other day, the private version of TDLib was updated, and it was received by the developers of Unigram and Telegram X for Android.

Commits appeared on the GitHub page of the Unigram client, thanks to which it is known that the library already supports:
- Archiving chats.
- People (and chats) nearly.
- Phone privacy settings.
- Add contacts without phone number.
- Ability transfer groups and channels ownership.
- Support for underlined and crossed out formatting.
- Support for the “Discuss” function of channels (button for switching to group chat attached to the channel).
- An updated menu if the user wrote to you (“add to contacts” and “block”).

This means that the above functionality may soon appear in Unigram and X Telegram for Android.

Developer Unigram already revealed, what the archive looks like in his client.

#TDLib

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Telegram for iOS version 5.12.1

What's new:
— Fixed bug where when using inline-bots requested location.
— Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Download from App Store.

#update #swift #iOS

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Invisible innovation

In addition to the return of the 3D Touch in the Telegram for iOS version 5.12.1it was noticed a few minor but interesting innovations.

— An additional warning that messages would be removed for both sides.
— New dice is used after cleaning the data, showing how much memory freed after cleaning.

#iOS

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