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Qualcomm CEO pockets 15% pay rise as profits fall 45%

Cristiano Amon took home almost $30M in 2025 as the chipmaker booked higher revenues despite earnings slide

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon saw his pay packet swell to $29.7 million in fiscal 2025, up from $25.91 million the year before, even as Qualcomm's full-year net income fell 45 percent.…

Europe's GDPR cops dished out €1.2B in fines last year as data breaches piled up

Regulators logged over 400 personal data breach notifications a day for first time since law came into force

GDPR fines pushed past the Β£1 billion (€1.2 billion) mark in 2025 as Europe's regulators were deluged with more than 400Β data breach notifications a day, according to a new survey that suggests the post-plateau era of enforcement has well and truly arrived.…

Bankrupt scooter startup left one private key to rule them all

Owner reverse-engineered his ride, revealing authentication was never properly individualized

An Estonian e-scooter owner locked out of his own ride after the manufacturer went bust did what any determined engineer might do. He reverse-engineered it, and claims he ended up discovering the master key that unlocks every scooter the company ever sold.…

Apple, Google pulled into Grok controversy as campaigners demand app store takedown

The chatbot's challenges no longer just Elon Musk’s problem, as campaigners call on tech giants to step in

The ongoing Grok fiasco has claimed two more unwilling participants, as campaigners demand Apple and Google boot X and its AI sidekick out of their app stores, because of the Elon Musk-owned AI's tendency to produce illicit images of real people.…

US regulator tells GM to hit the brakes on customer tracking

Smart Driver pitched as safety app, but feds claim it's a data-harvesting scheme that jacked up premiums

The Federal Trade Commission has banned General Motors and subsidiary OnStar from sharing drivers' precise location and behavior data with consumer reporting agencies for five years under a 20-year consent order finalized January 14.…

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