'Over 70% Indians prefer contacting businesses through messages': Report

In the ever-evolving communication landscape, more than 70% of Indians prefer to message businesses rather than sending an email, calling or visiting their website, a new report said on Friday. Nearly 75% Indians surveyed said they are more likely to do business with/purchase from a company that they can contact via messaging. https://ift.tt/BohyfD6

Interview with Elon Musk: it is "vaguely therapeutic" to "play the fool on Twitter", Truth Social is a right-wing echo chamber that can be called Trumpet, more (Roula Khalaf/Financial Times)

Roula Khalaf / Financial Times:
Interview with Elon Musk: it is “vaguely therapeutic” to “play the fool on Twitter”, Truth Social is a right-wing echo chamber that can be called Trumpet, more  —  Dinner with Elon Musk begins with a drive in a Tesla.  I am seated in the back, next to X, the billionaire's two-and-a-half-year-old son.

Binance says 2M BNB, worth ~$570M, were stolen from its BNB Chain in an exploit; "majority" of BNB are in the hacker's wallet, ~$100M worth were "unrecovered" (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)

Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters:
Binance says 2M BNB, worth ~$570M, were stolen from its BNB Chain in an exploit; “majority” of BNB are in the hacker's wallet, ~$100M worth were “unrecovered”  —  Hackers have stolen around $100 million worth of cryptocurrency from a Binance-linked blockchain …

Meta warns 1M Facebook users that their account info may have been stolen by 400+ apps, often via a "Login with Facebook" button, on App Store and Google Play (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Meta warns 1M Facebook users that their account info may have been stolen by 400+ apps, often via a “Login with Facebook” button, on App Store and Google Play  —  Meta is warning 1 million Facebook users that their account information may have been compromised by third-party apps from Apple or Google's stores.

Crypto hack: Attackers steal $570 million from Binance-linked blockchain

Blockchain bridges are tools used to transfer cryptocurrencies between different applications. Criminals have increasingly targeted them, with some $2 billion stolen in 13 different hacks, mostly this year, researcher Chainalysis said in August. https://ift.tt/1tvOG8K

Microsoft: '27% of Indian SMBs are all or mostly cloud-based'

Almost 35 per cent of small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India are spending over 10 per cent of their revenue on technology (in comparison to global counterparts) and 26 per cent of SMBs are early adopters of new technologies, a Microsoft report said. https://ift.tt/O1vRsNI