Last year, we reported that Apple sued its former software engineer Andrew Aude for providing journalists with confidential information about the company's future plans, including details about the Journal app, Vision Pro headset, and more.As reported by , the Superior Court of Santa Clara County on Thursday dismissed the lawsuit after Apple and Aude reached an agreement to resolve this matter.The court document for the case's dismissal does not provide any specific details about the agreement, but Aude issued a public apology on the same day.
In a post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, Aude said leaking information was a "profound and expensive mistake."
Aude's full apology:
Aude joined Apple in 2016, to work on optimizing battery performance, and the company fired him in 2023 after learning of his wrongful disclosures.For more details about the situation, read our previous coverage of the lawsuit.
