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Channel Durov's Code (@durovs_code) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 33 664 subscribers, ranking 3 962 in the Technologies & Applications category and 80 in the UAE region.
📊 Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 33 664 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 25 October, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by -3 445 over the last 30 days and by -18 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Verified (Officially confirmed by Telegram)
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 3.63%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 1.92% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 1 222 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 647 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 12.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as elon, openai, act, chatbot, display.
📝 Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
“News from IT and Telegram world.
Advertising & Editor-in-chief: editors@durovscode.com
! The project is not managed by Pavel Durov”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 26 October, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Technologies & Applications category.
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😆 Security, apparently
Around 80 videos from security cameras in South Korean clinics have surfaced on overseas porn sites, exposing about 100 patients.
What’s known about the leak:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/south-korea-hospital-cctv-footage-leak
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🕹 Code? Pass.
Google has launched Playground, a platform for creating games with text prompts. No coding required.
How it works:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-playground-ai-game-creator
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🤔 Show your work
OpenAI has published research from an unreleased AI model reporting solutions to hundreds of open math problems. The release follows criticism from mathematicians over how AI companies publish results and credit earlier work.
Researchers say the race to showcase AI is sidelining academic standards and mathematicians’ contributions.
↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-722-ai-math-papers
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😀 Big Tech’s tab
The EU wants to collect more tax from Apple, Meta and Google. Officials are considering a tax on large companies across industries to bring in more money from tech giants.
How the proposal would work:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/eu-expand-core-levy-big-tech
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🧠 Banana economics
Google has released Nano Banana 2.1, saying it improves text rendering and keeps people and objects more consistent across image edits. The company has also lowered API image prices.
What’s new and how prices compare:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/nano-banana-2-1-vs-nano-banana-2
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🧠 Big model energy
French AI company Mistral has unveiled Large 4, an open-weight model with 1.05 trillion parameters, 49 billion of them active. The company says it can compete with leading open models and challenge closed ones on some tasks.
More on the model:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/mistral-launches-large-4
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😻 Quite the notification
British online fashion retailer ASOS was reportedly hacked, with the attackers using the company’s own app to tell customers about the breach.
In the same message, they told ASOS to contact them on Telegram and threatened to leak the data they claim to have stolen.
↖️ https://durovscode.com/asos-hack-ransom-push-notification-telegram
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🤐 Wikipedia got raided
Wikipedia was hit by a wave of unauthorized activity from AI agents linked to OpenAI, according to the Wikimedia Foundation. The agents made unauthorized edits, tried to compromise a public tool and generated millions of automated requests.
What happened:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-agents-wikipedia-outage
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😏 Fine print included
OpenAI is adding invisible watermarks to text generated by ChatGPT and Codex in the EU, as required under the EU AI Act.
There are a few catches, though:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-to-watermark-chatgpt-and-codex-text-in-the-eu
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🛸 Your Prompt, Sponsored
OpenAI will test visual ads in ChatGPT while users generate images. Ads will be labeled and kept separate from the finished image.
↖️ https://durovscode.com/chatgpt-will-test-ads-during-image-generation
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😏 Dear Diary...
Claude reported a woman to police after she wrote in her AI diary about attacking a Florida sheriff’s office.
Anthropic’s safety systems flagged the conversation, and the company contacted law enforcement after a human review. Here’s what happened:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/anthropic-claude-chats-florida-woman-arrested
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😎 The glasses stay home
Following Australia, Norway plans a temporary ban on AI glasses in places such as schools, parks, malls and doctors’ offices, citing concerns about people being recorded without their knowledge.
More on the proposal:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/norway-ai-glasses-ban-public-places
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🍏 Peak Apple
Apple is reportedly developing a home security camera that doesn’t record video. Instead, AI would analyze what it sees and turn it into text descriptions.
More details:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/apple-ai-security-camera-no-video-recording
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🤔 Here we go again
An OpenAI agent has gained unauthorized access to another Australian government system, following the recently disclosed Medicare incident.
What happened:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-agent-australia-government-breach-nsw
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🎧 Samsung clips in
Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Buds On, its first pair of clip-on wireless earbuds, priced at around $220.
Specs, features and availability:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/samsung-galaxy-buds-on-clip-on-earbud
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🤔 AI answers, now with payouts
Google has started paying publishers when their content makes a significant contribution to AI-generated answers in Search. The program, called the AI Contribution Pilot, currently includes around 100 publishers.
How it works and how much publishers are getting:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-pays-publishers-ai-answers
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🧠 A million tokens later
Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, its new flagship model capable of generating up to 1 million tokens in a single run.
Argon also beats GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on some benchmarks. We break down what the model can do, how much API access will cost and when it’s expected to roll out more broadly:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/google-gemini-4-argon-ai-model
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🧠 A busy DevDay
OpenAI unveiled a long list of updates at DevDay 2026, including GPT-6.1 Sol, which approaches Astra on some benchmarks at a fraction of the cost.
The company also introduced dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers, and a new $500 Pro plan with Ultrafast mode.
We broke down the biggest announcements:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-devday-2026-dots-gpt-6-1-sol-announcements
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🤐 One update too late
Relapse, a full exploit chain for the PS5, has been released publicly, bringing homebrew and third-party software to consoles running nearly every firmware version.
It combines a browser vulnerability with a kernel logic flaw to break through the console’s protections.
Here’s how the PS5 was cracked:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/ps5-relapse-jailbreak-firmware-13-60
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😾 See you in court, agent
A nonprofit has sued OpenAI over its AI agents breaching Hugging Face, asking the court to block the company from developing agents capable of autonomously hacking third-party systems.
Details:
↖️ https://durovscode.com/openai-sued-over-ai-agents-that-hacked-hugging-face
