Micron has filed a lawsuit against China's YMTC, claiming the company recruited former Micron engineers who then patented inventions closely mirroring work they did at Micron. Micron alleges these employees left citing personal reasons, kept their new roles off LinkedIn, and were bound by confidentiality agreements they broke, and that YMTC later used the resulting patents to accuse Micron of infringement in multiple jurisdictions.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-01
OpenAI and co-defendants filed a motion asking the court to strike two expert declarations and disregard other evidence Apple submitted in its trade secret misappropriation lawsuit. The filing responds to Apple's reply brief, which included five expert declarations totaling 126 pages and 13 exhibits covering security practices, forensic device evidence, and trade secret valuation.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-26
Apple has asked the court overseeing its trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, io Products and several former employees to grant its own experts access to forensic disk images already gathered in the case, and to compel OpenAI to hand over documents tied to its hardware R&D efforts. The move follows Apple's claim that a forensic check of a MacBook used by former employee Chang Liu after he joined OpenAI revealed he ran a simulation using a confidential Apple circuit schematic, and that a related Mac mini may hold further evidence.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-22
A researcher interviewed more than 80 elite performers—including coaches, athletes, executives, military leaders and authors—asking what they were willing to do that others weren't. The resulting compilation distills their responses into 11 recurring habits and mindsets tied to sustained achievement, illustrated with quotes such as Dolly Parton describing herself as 'a workhorse that looks like a show horse.'
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-19
Hackers physically removed a Flock Safety license plate reader from a roadway, extracted an encryption key from its storage, and shared the recovered files with 404 Media and WIRED. The data showed the device's software identifies not just vehicles and plates but also people, bicycles, and even small details like bumper stickers, generating over a million images in just weeks of logs.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-17
Infisical shipped a feature letting users grant or deny access to individual folders, extending its role-based access control system built on the CASL permissions library. The company frames this as a deceptively complex engineering effort that most customers will never notice, despite being critical to enterprise adoption.
infisical.com
· 2026-09-09
Huawei is scheduled to face a US criminal trial on charges that it violated Iran sanctions and stole trade secrets from competitors. The proceedings are set to begin just weeks before a planned meeting between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-09
Jury selection begins in a long-running federal case against Huawei Technologies, which faces charges including wire and bank fraud, trade secret theft, and violating U.S. sanctions on North Korea. Prosecutors also allege Huawei equipment helped Iran surveil protesters during 2009 demonstrations. Huawei has called the government's case 'demonstrably false' and previously sought to have it dismissed as vague and overreaching.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-08
Belgian federal prosecutors arrested a 52-year-old Beijing-born Belgian resident, identified as H.L., on May 10 at a Brussels airport as he attempted to board a China-bound flight. He is accused of transferring gallium nitride semiconductor trade secrets from BelGaN, where he worked, to GanKool, a Chinese firm developing identical chip technology and founded shortly after he joined BelGaN. He now faces charges including industrial espionage and unlawful disclosure of business secrets.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-08
Belgian prosecutors detained a Chinese man in May as he prepared to fly to Beijing, alleging he had been passing sensitive chip-related technology to a company in China. The case is part of a broader investigation into suspected industrial espionage targeting Europe's semiconductor sector.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-07
Apple has filed a lawsuit against former employee Chang Liu, accusing him of copying confidential circuit schematics and other proprietary files from his company-issued MacBook before leaving to join OpenAI. Apple claims forensic evidence shows Liu used an AI agent to run simulations on the sensitive designs and then attempted to delete traces of his activity.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-01
OpenAI has responded to a lawsuit from Apple alleging theft of trade secrets, arguing that most of the claims actually stem from Apple's own weak employee offboarding practices rather than any wrongdoing by OpenAI. The ChatGPT maker is pushing back against the legal action, framing it as a dispute rooted in Apple's internal security failures.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-01
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