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Elliptic: Tudou Guarantee and other Telegram-based crypto scam marketplaces have grown rapidly since Telegram banned the two most popular ones a month ago (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/telegram-purged-chinese-cryp…

Telegram Purged Chinese Crypto Scam Markets—Then Watched as They Rebuilt
Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them.

»Telegram Purged Chinese Crypto Scam Markets—Then Watched as They Rebuilt:
Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto-scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them.«
Is anyone of you surprised? But the real question is, how do I convince people to stop using Telegram?
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Telegram Purged Chinese Crypto Scam Markets—Then Watched as They Rebuilt
Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them.

Migrant can stay in UK because he does not want to shave (Charles Hymas/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/25/migrant-can-stay-in-uk-because-he-does-not-want-to-shave/?msockid=1779aa7315fa6be22afdb98714d66a1d
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p76#a250625p76

The Telegraph leaving its limbo: "aims for the brand to become a force in US and global journalism, targeting an intelligent centre-Right readership which is not currently well-served".
Ok, we'll see. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/

Telegraph to be sold to RedBird Capital
Investment to be unleashed as US firm seeks takeover alongside British partners

Telegrapher's Generative Model via Kac Flows
Richard Duong, Jannis Chemseddine, Peter Friz, Gabriele Steidl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20641 https://…

Telegrapher's Generative Model via Kac Flows
We break the mold in flow-based generative modeling by proposing a new model based on the damped wave equation, also known as telegrapher's equation. Similar to the diffusion equation and Brownian motion, there is a Feynman-Kac type relation between the telegrapher's equation and the stochastic Kac process in 1D. The Kac flow evolves stepwise linearly in time, so that the probability flow is Lipschitz continuous in the Wasserstein distance and, in contrast to diffusion flows, the norm of the ve…

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Now, nobody trusts “the media” and
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The Continent is an attempt to prove
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@… reaches 5 years and 200 issues. If you're not already receiving their copy via @… (or email, telegram or WhatsApp if you must) then it's really worth signing up to remind yourself just how big and diverse the world ist.
This weeks highlights are an extraordinary story about how Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe directly interfered with Mozambique's election. Plus a frankly beautiful photo piece on Addis Ababa

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US House of Representatives bans WhatsApp on security grounds
--US Cybercom played a role in Iran attack,
--Crypto scam services return after Telegram beheading,
--NoName DDoS'ed Dutch cities ahead of NATO summit,
--REvil members released in Russia,
--Coinbase poseur stole millions from crypto holders,
--Critical infrastructure defense project …

US House of Representatives bans WhatsApp on security grounds
US Cybercom played a role in Iran attack, Crypto scam services return after Telegram beheading, NoName DDoS'ed Dutch cities ahead of NATO summit, REvil members released in Russia, Coinbase poseur stole millions from crypto holders, Critical infrastructure defense project disbanded, much more

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Birkaç gün önce arkadaşlarımı bahçeye çağırdım. İlk kez geliyorlar. Gelirken arayın ben tarif edeyim dedim. Yolda arayıp konum gönder dediler. Vatsap kullanmadığımı biliyorlar. Telegramdan göndermemi istediler. Gönderdim. Kısa bir süre sonra arayıp, "gönderdiğin konuma bu gün yetişemeyiz sen yine tarif et dediler.
Nereyi göndermiş diye baktım. Eyfel kulesinin ortasını göndermiş.
Özgür yazılımın gözünü seveyim.

Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100 children he fathered, and more (Guillaume Grallet/Le Point)
https://www.

EXCLUSIVE. Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI — and the fight for Telegram
INTERVIEW. "Le Point" met with the co-founder and CEO of the secure messaging app Telegram, who was charged in August 2024. A sweeping discussion on politics, power and democracy.