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What it is, what you can do with it and how it works to create your bots within Telegram

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Let’s explain to you What is BotFather and how does it work? This father of bots, a bot created by Telegram to be able to create other bots within the messaging app. When you want to proceed to carry out projects such as controlling an AI agent from Telegram, or you simply want to have your information and news bot, this will always be the first step to take. Let’s start by explaining what exactly this bot is. Then, we’ll go on to summarize the things you can do with it, and we’ll finish by telling you how you can use it to create your own bot. What is BotFather BotFather is the official Telegram bot to create and manage bots created by you. Its idea is to be a bot that literally acts as the father of all the bots within the platform. Being official, this bot has been created and is maintained by the official Telegram team, not by third parties. With this Telegram bot you will be able to create a bot, give it a name, add a description and avatar, and manage it as you wish. It will also give you a bot token to connect to it. to an external program with which to control it and make it work. Therefore, what BotFather allows you to do is create the bot shellbut then you will need to connect it to some program to give it functionality. Of course, it will also allow you to edit the welcome message, configure visible commandsactivate or deactivate privacy mode or manage your permissions. But then, the actual programming of the bot will have to be done outside. In summary, we can say that this is a bot for creating bots, and that it works in such an extremely simple way that democratizes creating them so that anyone can do it. Of course, without forgetting that you only create the framework, then making it work depends on your skills connecting it with the tools where you program it. What you can do with BotFather The main function of BotFather is to create new bots which will remain in your name so that you can use them as you wish. You will be able to create a name and you will have to give them a username to be located. When you create a bot, you will receive the access token to connect it to external tools. You can also customize the bot you created to adapt it to your needs. You can change their description, their “about” presentation, and their profile photo. You can also choose the list of commands it accepts, and activate or deactivate advanced functions such as inline mode to use it from the text bar of any chat, its payment system, or its privacy in groups. In addition to this, you will also be able to edit the bot to change these aspects as you want, as well as regenerate access tokens in case you need a new one. How to use BotFather. Creating bots is as easy as open a chat in BotFather and write /newbot. This will open a process where you will first have to type the bot name and then the username. The bot’s username, the @bot to find and write to, must be empty and end in “bot.” Once you have it, you will be given the API token and the address to access it. Then, in the bot you will always have a button open that opens a window with your bots. By pressing one of them you can enter its settings and change all the aspects you want about it, from the commands to the information or the internal games and all its settings. In these options you will also be able to configure your payment system, and transfer or delete it. If you delete it, the bot will disappear forever and its username will be free. And if you transfer it, you will make a different user own it and be able to control and configure it. You will no longer be able to do it. In Xataka Basics | How to create a Telegram bot that sends you a summary made by Gemini of each email you receive in Gmail and other emails

How to create a Telegram bot that sends you a summary made by Gemini of each email you receive in Gmail and other emails

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Let’s explain to you how to create a Telegram bot that sends you a summary of your emails emails, such as Gmail. Thus, when you receive a new email, whether from anyone or from specific senders or topics, an artificial intelligence will make a summary and send it to you. All this without knowing how to program nor have technical knowledge. This is not something you can do simply by asking artificial intelligence, and we are going to need a program that generates workflows or work flows. We will use Make.com, because it is very complete and easy to use. Besides, Make.com It has a free version that is perfect for taking the first steps, although with some limitations. In Make we will have to link any artificial intelligence, although we have opted for Gemini because it is easy to obtain a free API for it. And then, We have chosen Telegram because creating bots is easyand it only takes a few minutes. In the end, what you will need is an API from an AI, a Token key from a Telegram bot, and creating the workflow chain on Make.com. In the examples we have used Gmail because it is also easy to link to it. Get your Gemini API first The first thing we are going to do is get a google api to be able to use Gemini in our project. For that, go to the website aistudio.google.com and sign in with your Google account. When you do, in the bar on the left at the bottom click on Get API Key. Now you have to click on the option Create API key that appears at the top of the screen you have created. This will open a window where you have to create the project for which you are going to use it in order to identify it, for example Gmail Gemini. When you create the project, you can now create the API. When you have created the API, you will see that it appears in the list of API keys. You just have to click on the left, below where it says Clueand a window with the API will open, starting with “AIza–“. Set up the Telegram bot The first thing you have to do is create a bot on Telegram. For that you have to look for the “@BotFather” tool and write to it as if it were a new user. Use the /newbot command to create a new bot, giving it a name to identify yourself and a unique username to access the bot whenever you want. When you do it, it will give you two things, first the username and address of your bot to access it, and second an access token with various figures and letters. You have to save this token to use later. Start creating your project Now you have to go to Make.com and click on the option Create new scenario to create a new project. In the options choose the option Build from scratch to create an automation from scratch. From what we are going to do, you must understand that we will create an automation of several modules, each one of them different. These automations will form a chainso that the action of the first leads to the second, and that of the second to the third. Come on, the order in which we put them is important. Add your email module as a trigger You will go to a blank screen with a button with the plus symbol. Here, click on the + button and from the drop-down menu choose Gmail. Inside now click on the option Watch emails to configure the action of reading your emails. This will cause your automation to be activated every time you receive an email in Gmail. It is a trigger, which is the element that will start this automation. Now click on the button Create a connectionwhich will open a screen where you have to name the connection at the top, and at the bottom log in with your Gmail account to link it. You will have to log in and give the website permissions to access your email. Once the action has been added, you can filter the type of emails that this automation executes. Can choose emails from a specific folder or labelas well as other criteria, so that these are launched and read by the AI. You can also set some limits. This screen gives you the possibility to fully customize the experience depending on What type of emails do you want the AI ​​to summarize for you?. It is an important step, especially because you will be able to make it only perform this action with certain types of emails. For example, they can be from senders related to your work or a specific project. If you open the advanced settings either Advanced settingsyou can specify even more. For example, you can configure so that only runs with emails from a certain senderwith a certain subject, and many other characteristics. Now you can configure from what moment do you want the data to be processed. For example, you can choose From now on so that they are processed from the emails you start receiving from now on. You can also link other emails. For this, instead of the Gmail module you can use the Email module, which will allow you to connect with Google, with Microsoft for Outlook, or with others through IMAP. Outlook also has its own module. Now add the Gemini module Now it’s time to add the second module. To do this, click on the + button to the right of Gmail, and on the screen that opens choose the option Gemini. In the options that appear in the module that opens, choose where to put Generate a response. This will now open a key module, where you simply have to write the Gemini API Key that we have generated at … Read more

the founder of Telegram charges against Pedro Sánchez and sends a massive message

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He package of measures of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to regulate social networks has not only aroused the ire of Elon Musk, who has launched several disqualifications through X. It has also provoked a reaction from the CEO and co-founder of Telegram. Pável Dúrov is sending a message this afternoon to Spanish users of the platform in which he frontally rejects the proposal and warns of what, in his opinion, would be its consequences. Hey, you have a message from Durov. If you use Telegram and have a Spanish number, it is very likely that this afternoon you received an unusual notification. The official ‘Telegram’ bot, the same one usually used for security communications such as login codes, displays a message forwarded from the channel @durov. “The government of Pedro Sánchez is promoting new dangerous regulations that threaten your freedoms on the internet,” the text begins. From there, Dúrov promises to “explain” why he considers that the package of measures represents an alarm signal for freedom of expression and privacy. Durov Dúrov’s message translated into Spanish in the Telegram bot Against the prohibition of social networks for minors under 16 years of age. One of the central criticisms of the founder of Telegram points to the proposal to restrict the access of minors under 16 years of age to social networks. Dúrov maintains that such a measure, in practice, would imply strict identity verification controls that would go beyond that age group, citing formulas such as DNI or biometrics. “It sets a precedent for tracking the identity of EVERY user, eroding anonymity and opening doors to mass data collection,” he says. “What starts with minors could spread to everyone, stifling open debate,” he adds. Here it is important to clarify something important: for now, the Government has not fully detailed what specific technical measures would be applied for this age verification, nor how they would be implemented in practice. That is to say, Dúrov’s interpretation is based on a harsh scenario, but the actual implementation will depend on how the initiative ends up being drafted and the mechanism chosen to apply it. Risks of “overcensorship”. The message also focuses on another point of the proposal: tightening the responsibility of the platforms, including their managers, if they do not remove content considered illegal or hateful. According to Dúrov, this would push companies to act preventively and aggressively, with a clear collateral effect on public debate: “this will force over-censorship—the platforms will delete anything minimally controversial to avoid risks, silencing political dissidence, journalism and everyday opinions.” And what about the algorithm? The initiative also proposes legally punishing the manipulation of algorithms and the deliberate amplification of illegal content. Dúrov interprets this point as a potential paradigm shift: that the control of the order of what we see on the Internet becomes a regulated matter with room for political intervention. “Governments will dictate what you see, burying opposing opinions and creating state-controlled echo chambers,” he writes. In the same block, he warns that these types of measures would end up affecting the free circulation of ideas. Measures against polarization. Another leg of the package is the creation of a system described as a “footprint of hate and polarization,” which would quantify how platforms amplify social division and serve as a basis for future sanctions. Durov dwells especially on this point, questioning the fit of categories that, in his opinion, are too open and moldable: “vague definitions of ‘hate’ could label criticism of the government as divisive, leading to closures or fines. This can be a tool to suppress the opposition.” A message without gray, waiting for the small print. Overall, Dúrov presents the proposal as an inseparable block of threats against freedom of expression and privacy, hardly distinguishing between measures or opening room for nuances. It is a reading aligned with Telegram’s usual narrative, which tends to frame regulation as a direct risk to digital rights. But it also leaves a decisive factor in the background: several parts of the plan, as we say, are still pending completion, both in its final formulation and in its technical implementation. Telegram does not come to this debate from scratch. Dúrov’s intervention also occurs in a complicated context for the platform. Telegram has been under the spotlight for some time due to the role played by some channels and groups in the dissemination of content that is difficult to moderate, and due to the recurring debates about responsibility and cooperation with authorities. Added to this is that the founder has been noted in France in the framework of investigations linked to the use of Telegram against criminal activities and certain illegal content. This history helps to understand why these types of messages are not just political criticism. Images | Dima Solomin | Moncloa In Xataka | We don’t know if banning social media for those under 16 is going to solve the problem. Yes we know that it will generate others

The housing market is so broken that it has found an unexpected channel for express purchases: Telegram

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The housing market is overheated. It comes with taking a look at your price curvehe residential deficit calculated by the sector, the accelerated tempos of the agencies or simply the conditions (increasingly draconian) that real estate agencies require from tenants looking for an apartment to confirm it. There is another place however where that fever is clearly perceivedone that has little to do with agencies, portals like Idealista or the offices of the promoters: Telegram. There it is increasingly easier to find apartment purchases that are closed in minutes with a clear investment focus. Seen and unseen. The news I advanced it a few days ago The Country. If there were doubts about the imbalance between supply and demand in the Spanish real estate market or to what extent housing is awakening the appetite of investors comes with taking a look at Telegram. In the same messaging app that many of us use to talk to our families or friends, there are groups with thousands of subscribers that have become real real estate showcases. Of course, with certain peculiarities: speed prevails in the channels, the ‘seen and unseen’, with a clearly investor focus. It is not unusual for sales to be settled in a matter of minutes, sometimes by buyers who do not even get to visit the home they are purchasing in person. At the end of the day, you are not looking for a home. Generally, those who buy do so attracted by the promise of high returns. And one of the most popular ways is the rental market. How do they work? The mechanism is quite simple. The channels are run by specialized companies that are previously in charge of tracking the market in search of assets with potential, apartments in locations with rising markets, at reasonable prices and in which it is possible to charge tenants monthly payments that, over time, will translate into profitability of the 6%, 8%, 9% or even 13%, far above than other more conventional investments offer. Once the company ‘hunts’ that real estate asset, it offers it on its Telegram channel with a series of key data: area, location, age, sale price, estimated rent and profitability forecasts. Potential buyers send emails showing their interest and then the company chooses among the candidates, either by lottery or following the order in which they have written. It is not unusual for the buyer to never see the property or even live in another city. At the end of the day, what counts is the promise of economic return. How frequent is it? Last year the General Council of Notaries registered almost 716,200 home sales in Spain. Among this enormous volume of operations, those closed expressly through Telegram could have represented a small part (there is no official data), but even so the phenomenon is interesting enough that it has followers. The Country speaks from several companies that launch offers every week through groups in which they reach 3,000, 10,500 or even 15,000 subscribers. Specifically, he cites three companies in the sector: Winteromics, Nexiaprop and Buy 1 apartmentalthough not all of them are the same nor do they use Telegram with the same frequency. More than just speed. That the formula is arousing interest is explained by the characteristics of the real estate market. In cities with very stressed markets, such as Madrid, Barcelona either Valenciarents rise, but so do (and not a little) the price of properties, so its real estate stock loses interest for local investors in search of available homes to direct them to the rental market. Solution? Look beyond the metropolises, in other locations, if possible in municipalities where prices are still reasonable, where population is gaining or an increase in demand is expected in the near future, for example due to the arrival of a multinational. Hence, buyers are interested in homes that may be hundreds or thousands of kilometers from where they live. Mediation companies not only promise huge financial returns. Sometimes, if the expected returns are not achieved, they undertake to cover the difference or even offer their services as intermediaries to take care of the renovations or rental management. That is, even if the investor has in mind becoming a landlord, he or she will not even have to act as such. The company itself takes care of it… after payment (of course) of a commission. Looking for strategic areas. The focus is usually on homes located in working-class areas, without conflicts, with sales prices that usually do not reach or range around 100,000 euros. Companies also manage to ensure that these properties are not even offered on the open market, thus becoming the first to hunt for ‘bargains’ for investors. The companies they allege who with their work increase the rental supply and unlock properties that have been empty for some time. Of course, it’s not all advantages. As in any investment, the sector also recognizes that there are “risks”, especially for buyers who purchase apartments without first seeing them in situ. Images | Ivan Radic (Flickr) and Kaspar Upmanis (Unsplash) In Xataka | For years, motorhomes were a luxury. Now they are something else: the last stronghold against the housing crisis

How to transcribe WhatsApp or Telegram audios with Gemini

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Let’s explain to you how to transcribe audios from WhatsApp or Telegram with Geminithe artificial intelligence from Google. WhatsApp and other applications have their own tools for transcribing voice messages, but they are not always accurate, and in fact WhatsApp can leave several words untranscribed due to its limited capacity. Here we are going to go with Google’s AI, since ChatGPT seems to have some problems and not always accept the audio file well. This is a free feature that you will be able to use whenever you want. He prompt It is very easy to use, and so is the process. Transcribe WhatsApp audios in Gemini The first thing you have to do is download voice message in your mobile memory. To do that, select it and choose the share option, and when you do you can choose to do it externally, choose your files application and save it there. You can also save it in the cloudsuch as Google Drive, a service that you can use in Gemini to add files. Now you have to go to Gemini, and attach the audio file that you have downloaded. Here, depending on your mobile or the linked services, when you click on the add elements button you can do it directly from the files or hard drive, or from apps like Google Drive. Once you have added the audio file, you will see that it remains uploaded and attached in the writing field. Now simply write a prompt like “Transcribe this audio”or something similar with which to tell the AI ​​that what you want is the transcription of the message. And that’s it. Only with this you will see that Gemini analyzes the content of the audio file that you have uploaded, and will proceed to transcribe what is said in it. Here, remember that Gemini’s limits for transcribing audio are around 20 MB. In Xataka Basics | Gemini on your old Android: what you need and how to get the most out of it

Russia wants to end WhatsApp and Telegram. To do so, he will force his own messaging app accused of spying

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Russia has just moved a key piece on its digital control board. The government has ordered that all mobile phones and tablets that are marketed in the country They must come with a new pre -installed application: ‘Max’, a messaging service promoted by the State that, according to critics, is designed as a Powerful government surveillance tool. It coincides with other restrictions. This new measure occurs just a week after the Russian regulator, Roskomnadzor, will begin to restrict voice calls in services as popular as WhatsApp and Telegram, punishing them for Your refusal to deliver data of its users to the authorities. ‘Max’, the forced replacement that is integrated with the government. This new application does not start from zero. It will replace another messaging application developed by the Russian technological giant VK, which was already mandatory since 2023. However, ‘Max’ goes one step further, since it will be integrated directly with government services, further centralizing the communication of citizens through a platform controlled by the Kremlin. And now has achieved 18 million downloads According to official sources. This measure is part of a law in force since 2021 that forces Smartphone, tablets and computers to include Software of Russian origin. Although the official justification is the protection of citizens’ data, digital rights organizations have been denouncing that the real objective is limit digital freedoms and monitor population activity. An increased control from the war with Ukraine. The campaign against foreign messaging services have been drastically intensified since 2022. The Russian government repeatedly accuses platforms such as Telegram of being used by Ukraine for Ukraine recruit agents and organize terrorist actors in its territory. In this way, as part of its strategy, the Kremlin has already ordered officials and legislators to leave their telegram channels and migrate to ‘Max’. All for your own safety. Or they sell it. The first blow affected WhatsApp and Telegram. Before imposing his new app, Russia had already begun to degrade the experience of competition. Roskomnadzor announced “measures to counteract criminals”, which translated into a Selective restriction of voice calls In WhatsApp and Telegram. Currently, calls on these platforms barely work, since users in Russia are reporting a dumb -plagued service and distorted audio. It is a subtle, but effective way to make applications less useful and frustrating for its combined base of almost 200 million users in the country. The regulator has affirmed that functionality will be restored when applications “begin to comply with Russian legislation”, something that is considered extremely unlikely. Therefore, the degradation of the service could only be the prelude to a total blockade. The ecosystem closes: Rustore mandatory in Apple. The Kremlin plan is not limited to messaging software. The same date that ‘Max’ becomes mandatory, on September 1, another key imposition also enters into force: Rustore, the Russian National Applications Store, It must be pre -installed on all Apple devices. Until now, it was already mandatory on all Android devices sold in the country. With this movement, Russia ensures not only that your applications are on the devices, but also to control the main software distribution channel, closing the circle of its sovereign digital ecosystem. While the authorities insist that these measures are necessary to prevent terrorism and protect minors, for opponents the reality is another: the construction of a great digital firewall to isolate and monitor their citizens. It is not the only country that applies limitations. China with the Impossibility of accessing Google services From its territory, it is a clear example of how countries try to Apply controls to your citizens. North Korea is also another example where A unique operating system is imposed and access to technology is extremely controlled. Images | Igorn In Xataka | Change WhatsApp and Telegram for a European alternative: how to do it and what you should take into account

Two 19 -year -old kids put Spanish national security with a bot and a telegram channel. The reason: they bored themselves

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It happened a few days ago. The National Police had arrested two young people by the Data filtration of Pedro Sánchez and other high positions of the State. A massive filtration that, In police wordsis a “very serious threat to national security.” Behind all this there is no large group of perfectly coordinated hackers, only two 19 -year -old Canarian kids and a bot that they sold on Telegram. @Akkaspace and @pakito. They are the nicks of the two authors of the filtration. Yoel (Akkaspace), the main responsible, is a computer student and was arrested at his home on July 1. Next to him also stopped Pakito (Cristian), who was aware of his friend’s activities and would have participated in helping him promote them. Yesterday July 3 They were releasedalthough they are being investigated for an alleged crime of terrorism and will have to appear in the played twice a month. A bot. It is the tool they have used to extract the data. The bot was in charge of tracking previously compromised databases. That is, they have taken advantage of existing vulnerabilities in companies and institutions. In Declarations to Eldiariosecurity expert Rafael López, says they have used OSINT, OR INTELLIGENCE OF OPEN SOURCESand it has not been a hacking as such. Yoel himself said in an interview he gave on Twitch with his face covered: With a bot that I have, with which I have taken everything basically. I take databases, Indexo, and people, if you buy the bot, searching for a full name, a phone number or a ID, you can access all the information. This is how I have done politicians. Filtration. The investigation began weeks ago in Telegram. @Akkaspace and @pakito used a channel with more than 90,000 members to start spreading personal data from public figures, although later they were closed and used other more minority channels. In the beginning it only affected seven personalities, but little by little they were filtering more data, getting to involve the president of the Government himself. The data contained in the filtration includes birth dates, telephones, ID numbers and even homes, although some were apparently outdated. Motivation. “We are two boring kids,” said Yoel on Twitch, which denies that there is an ideological motivation behind the filtration. “And as the issue of corruption is being uncovered lately, why don’t we get the information from those politicians and publish it? It is a lesson,” he said. Although it is not clear what led him to filter the data, everything indicates that there would be an economic motivation. Yoel sold the databases and the bot itself with which it extracted the data, which it charged in Bitcoins. An undercover agent. This is how they hunt. The National Audience car includes that an undercover agent “has managed to buy from the investigated access to the database that sold for 60 euros that have been paid in Bitcoins. “The second investigated, Cristian or @Pakito would be in charge of managing the cryptocurrency portfolio where they received the payments, although it has not transcended how much they won. Images | National Police in X In Xataka | Alcasec is not any youth hacker: he set up a Spanish criminal infrastructure that even had customer service bot

Russia is using an unprecedented tactic to dynamit Ukraine: Telegram and Ukrainian adolescents

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The story jumped following a data from Ukrainian intelligence. Apparently, More than 700 people They have been arrested in the country for crimes of sabotage and terrorism. The problem? That a quarter of them were minors, so an investigation was opened to find out how they had got there. They discovered something much bigger: many of them did not even know they were executing a Russian mission. Spies and terrorists by accident. The war between Russia and Ukraine has stopped being fought only in the battlefields to infiltrate the teenage mobiles. A growing number of Ukrainian minors is being recruited by Russian intelligence services through messaging applications Like Telegramwith the promise of easy money in exchange for performing tasks ranging from taking photographs of military objectives to the placement of explosives. One of the most recent cases is that of a 16 -year -old arrested In fraganti In the city of Dnipro while collecting information about Ukrainian military positions For the FSB. Your case It is not exceptional: According to the Ukraine Safety Service (SBU), more than 700 people have been arrested for espionage, sabotage or terrorism directed by Russian agents, and as we said, around 25% were minors. From Telegram to the battlefield. The capture methods follow a disturbing pattern. Wearing anonymous accounts In Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp or Viber, the Russian agents contact young people offering them Between $ 100 and 1,000 For simple tasks that become more and more dangerous: take photos of anti -aircraft systems, cause fires in critical infrastructure or plant explosives in recruitment stations. Many of recruited teenagers act knowingly, others believe they are participating in games o Digital challenges, as in the case of two children under 15 and 16 years in Járkiv, who thought to be completing a “Quest” by following FSB instructions to geolocate and record military facilities. These coordinates were used to guide air attacks against the city. Involuntary suicides. In other cases, the result It has been lethal: two recruited teenagers to place a pump in a train station in Ivano-Frankivsk were Victims of the device itselfremotely activated by its Russian supervisors, in what has been described as a forced suicide operation without knowledge of the executor. In another, described For the GuardianOleh, a 19 -year -old from East of Ukraine accepted a job offered by a stranger named “Anton” for $ 1,000: he had to collect a backpack in Rivne and sprinkle paint in front of a police station. It happens that there was no paint inside the bag, but an improvised explosive artifact, with cables, an attached mobile and a deadly trap that would have made it, without knowing it, a suicidal attacker. The operation. Oleh was progressively recruited. He started sending photos of public buildings for 50 dollars in exchange for cryptocurrency payments, which made him enter the orbit of his captors. After refusing to set fire to a building, he was contacted weeks later by another man, “Alexander”, which offered him a new seemingly harmless task and Better remunerated. Oleh convinced his friend Serhiy to join the plan. Both, unemployed and needy money, traveled to Rivne and collected the bags in an agreed area. The operation, carefully directed by Alexander from Telegram, included precise instructions, video calls, remote surveillance and an alleged spray with which they had to make a symbolic graffiti in front of a police station. However, at the last moment, when opening the package, Oleh discovered that he had been deceived and alerted a policeman nearby. SBU agents who followed the operation arrested both young people. The attack was avoided thanks to signal blocking systems that prevented Alexander from detonating the explosives by a call. The same type of attack had killed a 21 -year -old boy three days before in the same city. Systematic campaign The Ukrainian authorities They denounce that this strategy is not sporadic or improvised, but a systematic effort For destabilizing the country from within, exploiting the precariousness and emotional vulnerability of its youth. Displaced young people, orphans for war or simply in need of money for a mobile phone have become objectives of a covert war machine that transforms their curiosity and despair into sabotage tools. Faced with this, the SBU has launched A national campaign of awareness to counteract these tactics: alert messages by SMS, poster posters, educational videos in trains and visits to schools where agents teach adolescents how to detect recruitment signals. He campaign motto“Do not burn yours, burn the enemy,” seeks to reverse the narrative imposed by Moscow. National Security vs. Childhood Rights. No doubt, the use of minors in espionage and terrorism actions also raises a Legal and ethical dilemma. Under the martial law in force in Ukraine, crimes of betrayal, sabotage or collaboration can lead to Perpetual prison sentenceseven for teenagers. Although the Government ensures that due process and legal representation are being guaranteed, organizations such as Human Rights Watch They warn that minors must be treated under international youth justice standards, prioritizing rehabilitation. Even so, internal pressure on the authorities It is huge: With a current total war and Russian attacks guided from within the country, even adolescents arrested for collaborating with the enemy are seen as traitors. For the head of the SBU, Vasyl Malyuk, there is no ambiguity: “For us, they are traitors of the State.” Threat that grows. He counted The Financial Times That the sophistication of Russian recruitment techniques is increasing. In June, the SBU warned about a new tactic: Russian agents who pass Ukrainian officials to manipulate minors and get sabotages or cyber crimes on behalf of the government themselves to harm. Disinformation, digital anonymity and the use of playful playful dynamics have converted the phones of Ukrainian adolescents into The new front of a war without clear rules. Thus, as the conflict extends, Ukraine is forced to fight not only against missiles and drones, but against an invasion that is also infiltrated in the youngest and most vulnerable minds of his society. Image | … Read more

The Telegram CEO believes that it has 100 “children.” And it will distribute its 13,000 million dollars among them

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What does it mean to be someone’s son? If you ask Pavel Durov, the Telegram CEOThe answer is not only limited to the six “officers” children he has with three different women. In fact, it includes more than 100 people around the world. “How is it possible that a man who has never married and prefers to live only has so many children?” Hardov He asked rhetorically in his Telegram channel in 2024. 25 Telegram tricks to make the most The answer is simple: by sperm donation. During the last 15 years, Durav has frequently donated sperm, convinced that it was his “civic responsibility.” However, unlike many, Durov considers that all children conceived through their sperm are theirs, even if they are not present in their lives or know who they are. The latter is important since according to Durav, all their children have the same rights. An inheritance issue. Durov shared his opinion about the family in an interview with LE POINTwhere he comments that his will recently finished. From there comes the importance of how many children does the Telegram chief have, whose estimated fortune is around the € 13,000 million. “I want to emphasize that I do not make distinctions between my children who were conceived naturally and those who were conceived through donations of my sperm,” said Durov. “Everyone is my children and everyone will have the same rights.” A donation. That Durov have more children than a football team It is no surprise. Himself He told it in 2024explaining that it all started 15 years ago when a friend of his asked for a sperm donation. “I was leaving my ass before realizing that my friend said it seriously,” said Durov. The friend and his wife had fertility problems and needed help to form a family. Durov agreed, but the story did not end there. More than 100 children. “They just told me that I have more than 100 biological children,” he said in a post on his telegram channel last summer. “(When I made my first donation) the clinic head told me that there was a shortage of high quality donations and that it was my civic responsibility to donate more sperm anonymously to help other couples.” According to Dorav, his donations over the years have helped more than 100 couples in 12 countries. He added that at least one clinic still has its frozen sperm and available as anonymous donation. Pavel Durov (left) and Jakob Burda in 2016. The children: an obsession of the billionaires. Certainly, Dorav’s dedication to help others have children is not unusual among millionaires. In recent years, people like Elon MuskMarc Andresen or Peter Thiel have dedicated themselves to sounding the alarm on the “risk” of the low birth rate to humanity. The Tesla CEO has classified the low birth rate as the “most important humanity risk of today.” In fact, on a personal level, Musk seems to be committed to the idea to have all the children I can. The billionaire currently has at least 14 children of 4 different womenalthough there is the possibility of having more. Andresen, on the other hand, has declared that the planet suffers from a “Dramatic depopulation.” States that in an ideal future, the Earth will house 50,000 million (there are currently 8.2 billion). And what about poverty? According to Andresen, the markets will be responsible for financing social welfare programs. Although Durov is not as vocal on the subject as Musk and Andresen, it is clear that he takes it seriously. In fact, last year, paid fertility treatmentwhich is around $ 5,000, women who agreed to use their sperm in Russia. Distributing the inheritance. So what happens to that inheritance of € 13,000 million? I’m sorry to tell you that, although your parents suddenly say that Telegram’s CEO did have a role at your birth, you will have to wait a long time before seeing a cent of their money. Specifically, three decades from this year. “I want my children to live as normal people, who are worth them, to learn to trust themselves, that they can create something for themselves,” said Durov. “I don’t want them to depend on a bank account.” How can I know if I am a son of Durav? After all, the tycoon made sperm donations anonymously. Well, don’t worry: Dad Durov has thought of everything. “I plan to put my DNA in Open Source so that my biological children can find themselves more easily,” said Durov in 2024. “Of course there are risks, but I do not regret having been a donor.” Images | Techcrunch | Hubert Burda Media In Xataka | Change WhatsApp and Telegram for a European alternative: how to do it and what you should take into account

Telegram has just starred in a surprising script turn. One in which privacy loses

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Telegram announced these days that predictably will integrate Grok in its application This summer. We will have the ability to use a chatbot of AI inside the messaging app, which is precisely the same as the goal has driven to Integrate goal AI In WhatsApp recently. The strategic alliance is striking, but also worrying. A juicy agreement. After the announcement of Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, Elon Musk I clarified that the agreement was not yet signed. Durov replied that only some formalities remained. If it is finally confirmed, XAI will pay 300 million dollars to Telegram in cash and shares. Telegram will also take 50% of the revenues of Grok subscriptions that are sold via the messaging app. Everything seems fantastic for Telegram, but what will Musk win? Data are a treasure. This agreement allows Grok to immediate access to a massive user base, part of which can become payment subscribers of the XAI IA service. But above all, it will allow Elon Musk’s company to obtain access to a massive data collection that can be used to train their AI models, for example. The same happens with goal and the inclusion of goal AI in WhatsApp: the conversations we have with the chatbot are not encrypted, and can serve among other things to train the company’s models. Musk already did something similar with x. Just two months ago Elon Musk made a strategic play and fused X with Xai. The operation was logical, especially after Grok’s initial integration in X, but that strengthened even more a forceful reality: that the data of X users could be used to Train XAI AI models. Taking into account that Musk had been Looking for a plan B For data scarcity, that operation and the agreement with Telegram demonstrate that voracious hunger of data. Hardov’s promises. In a tweet after the ad, Durov expressed his Commitment to privacy. “The user’s privacy is essential,” he said, adding that “to be clear, XAI will only access the data that Telegram users explicitly share with Grok through direct interactions. It’s expected: you can’t send messages to anyone (not even a chatbot) without sharing what you write.” That last sentence showed again that by default Telegram does not figure the messages. If users are concerned about their privacy, they must be attentive to this circumstance. As a security expert explained in a 2016 study, “Telegram is not safe“ Telegram and privacy. For years Telegram grew precisely because of its theoretical focus on the privacy of its users. It was one of the first to announce the use of extreme-a-extreme encryption (E2E, end-to-end). However, even that option He had small print. Not many users realized that in reality E2E encryption only applied in secret chats to, according to those responsible, that they would not raise suspicions. Yielding data to governments. Things worsened in September 2024. That was when Telegram CEO, Pavel Durov, announced that would provide users with governments to be asked, although in reality the service conditions They already opened that door long before. Changes in these policies were produced After the controversial detention that Durov had suffered in France a few days before. The measure was especially surprising, especially considering that Telegram had become famous for Resist those same interference by the government of Russia. In January 2025 it was revealed how Telegram had yielded data from thousands of users to the United States authorities. We have just known that then they have continued yielding many more. Changing headquarters. An analysis of the security and privacy of Telegram carried out by ESET He revealed the deficiencies in these areas and in the protection of anonymity, but also pointed out another important detail: Telegram has changed several times of jurisdiction and its headquarters has been traveling from Berlin to London, then to Singapore and finally Dubai. The objective was to maintain its independence, but that leaves an ambiguous legal framework on data management. Bad news for privacy. All this makes the suspicions about the privacy guarantees offered by Telegram to its users are harmed. XAI is an American company, and the already revealed data assignments to that government by Telegram only reinforce a worrying trend. Image | Steve Jurvetson In Xataka | Telegram is much more than a messaging app. It has become the new Deep Web

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