- Games: Tap in "cancel" option in voice assistant setup bottom sheet, proceed to the game activity - Improve the bottom sheet and preferences layout for games - Enhance GamesActivity to handle preferences, intents, and exceptions more robustly - Improve the preferences setup activity class and link preference methods to optimize imports - Improve the grid align for some shortcut launcher icons - Organize and refactor source code, and fix various issues - Update dependencies, Gradle, and Kotlin - Other minor changes
- Games: Tap in "cancel" option in voice assistant setup bottom sheet, proceed to the game activity - Improve the bottom sheet and preferences layout for games - Enhance GamesActivity to handle preferences, intents, and exceptions more robustly - Improve the preferences setup activity class and link preference methods to optimize imports - Improve the grid align for some shortcut launcher icons - Organize and refactor source code, and fix various issues - Update dependencies, Gradle, and Kotlin - Other minor changes
Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. Telegram was co-founded by Pavel and Nikolai Durov, the brothers who had previously created VKontakte. VK is Russia’s equivalent of Facebook, a social network used for public and private messaging, audio and video sharing as well as online gaming. In January, SimpleWeb reported that VK was Russia’s fourth most-visited website, after Yandex, YouTube and Google’s Russian-language homepage. In 2016, Forbes’ Michael Solomon described Pavel Durov (pictured, below) as the “Mark Zuckerberg of Russia.” Russians and Ukrainians are both prolific users of Telegram. They rely on the app for channels that act as newsfeeds, group chats (both public and private), and one-to-one communication. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Telegram has remained an important lifeline for both Russians and Ukrainians, as a way of staying aware of the latest news and keeping in touch with loved ones. The last couple days have exemplified that uncertainty. On Thursday, news emerged that talks in Turkey between the Russia and Ukraine yielded no positive result. But on Friday, Reuters reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin said there had been some “positive shifts” in talks between the two sides.
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