Hacker Newsroom for 12 July: Apple Trade Secrets, NYC Subscription Ban, Cycle Double Cover, Relativity Chemical Bonds
Published: July 12, 2026
Duration: 7:57
Hacker Newsroom for 12 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through apple trade secrets, nyc subscription ban, cycle double cover, relativity chemical bonds.
1. Apple Trade Secrets
The next story is about Apple suing OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft tied to former Apple employees now working on OpenAI’s hardware effort. The 9to5Mac article says Apple claims ex-employees took confidential files, prototypes, supplier knowledge, and even used insider terminology and a security bug to keep pulling sensitive information after leaving, all to help OpenAI and io build new devices.
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