A federal jury in Detroit ordered Ford to pay Versata Software $104.6M for breach of a 2004 licensing contract and misuse of trade secrets; Ford plans to appeal (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

Bloomberg Law:
A Texas jury says Meta must pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer an ongoing royalty and $174.5M+ in damages for violating patents with Facebook and Instagram Live  —  Meta Platforms Inc. must pay walkie-talkie app maker Voxer Inc. more than $174.5 million in damages after a Texas jury found Wednesday …

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Filing: Apple settles lawsuit against an ex-employee accused of stealing trade secrets and sharing them with the media; he will pay an undisclosed sum to Apple  —  Apple has settled its lawsuit against Simon Lancaster, a former design architect, who the company accused of stealing trade secrets and sharing them with a journalist.

Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer:
CI/CD service CircleCI says it is investigating “a security incident” and “out of an abundance of caution” all customers should “rotate any and all secrets”  —  CircleCI, a software development service has disclosed a security incident and is urging users to rotate their secrets.

Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A Delaware jury says Shopify owes $40M to patent holder Express Mobile for infringing three patents related to software for providing content to mobile devices  —  E-commerce platform Shopify Inc owes patent holder Express Mobile Inc $40 million for infringing three patents related …

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Filing: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway discloses the purchase of ~60.1M American depositary shares of TSMC, worth $4.1B+, in Q3 2022  —  Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) said it bought more than $4.1 billion of stock in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (2330.TW) …

Cade Metz / New York Times:
A US federal court jury finds ex-Uber Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan guilty for not disclosing a 2016 breach of customer and driver records to regulators  —  A jury found Joe Sullivan, who led security at the ride-hailing company, guilty on two different counts.