Nova toons is live on @AppStore If you have not opened Nova Toons lately, start there. Original stories and partner IP are already live, including Shibamaru: The Demon Samurai with @shibtoken and the WIF & the Sphere Heist with @dogwifcoin. The update: the Nova Toons Creator Economy will be announced very soon. This is the layer where creators earn from the work they publish, and where platform revenue is routed back into the ecosystem. A share of that revenue is designed to fund organic $RVV buybacks from the open market. Not a one-off. A repeatable loop tied to real usage. That is the point of the Creator Economy. Content is not only engagement. It becomes a demand engine for $RVV. Full mechanics drop with the announcement. Do not sit this one out. Read now:

Free FrankenApps incoming for iPhone. FrankenTTS is just waiting for AppStore approval, and I’m submitting FrankenOCR now to the store. And FrankenWhisper is basically done now, too. All totally free and OSS, no ads, no in-app purchases. And shockingly fast on a new iPhone!

Last night Apple briefly removed Telegram from the AppStore because a user had planted illegal porn in a public chat. Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened — to warn other app developers and help protect online communities from similar attacks. Because Telegram quickly removes illegal content from public groups using all kinds of moderation tools, the attacker had to resort to a technical trick. He inserted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in an active group chat. As a result the content was effectively hidden from the group’s members, preventing them from seeing/reporting it. The attacker was a takedown extortionist: someone who demands ransom from group owners in exchange for not targeting their communities. These extortionists use automated accounts to plant illegal content in public groups and then report it directly to Apple, attempting to trigger the removal of legitimate communities whose owners refused to pay them. From a practical standpoint, illegal pornographic content in Telegram’s public groups is not a systemic problem. Our moderation is effective. The fact that attackers must resort to backdated, effectively invisible content and other technical tricks proves this. ⚠️ However, there are two important lessons here for app developers and online communities: — Extortionists have found a way to manipulate Apple into overreacting. Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us. This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without prior warning, any app can be. — The tactics used by takedown extortionists are evolving, putting communities across social platforms at risk. Telegram has extensive experience identifying the tricks used by coordinated reporting gangs and protecting legitimate communities (even when doing so risks our own app being temporarily removed from the App Store). Other platforms may not be equally prepared. Stay vigilant! ☝️