Blake Brittain (PDF, patent 1, patent 2, Hacker News, 9To5Mac):
A US jury ruled that Apple owes San Diego-based Taction more than $5.7 billion for using its patented technology to power the haptic feedback in iPhones and Apple Watches. Apple said it would appeal the country’s largest such verdict to date.
[…]
Apple denied the allegations and said the patents were invalid.
neuropsychguy:
Taction Technologies has real products (used in various headphones) -- in case anyone is wondering about whether the company is only a patent troll.
[…]
What’s complicated about this case is that Apple developed the Taptic Engine before Taction filed its original patent application. Apple’s original Taptic Engine was different from what Taction later patented. However, Apple subsequently redesigned the Taptic Engine, and those later designs incorporated a combination of suspensions and ferrofluid damping that a jury (in California -- this isn’t in Texas) has now found fall within Taction’s patent claims.
Malcolm Owen:
In effect, the jury says that Taction has proven Apple has infringed, but not that Apple did so knowingly.
[…]
Apple was accused of buying and reverse-engineering two Kannon headsets that used the technology.
The $5.7 billion seems so high compared with the $634 million in the Masimo case where Apple seemed a lot more guilty.
Previously:
Update (2026-10-22): Hartley Charlton:
Apple could face additional payments on top of a $5.7 billion patent verdict, with Taction Technology asking a federal judge for more damages, interest, and royalties on future iPhone and Apple Watch sales.
[…]
According to Reuters, Taction says the $5.7 billion award covers sales from 2021 through to late March 2026. It now wants compensation for approximately six more months of sales that were not included in the jury’s initial calculation.
Apple Haptics iOS iPhone Lawsuit Legal Patents
Nicolas Seriot:
// "<a>" in UTF-16 LE + a single dangling byte
const UInt8 bytes[] = {'<', 0, 'a', 0, '>', 0, 'X'};
[…]
The whole bug is a confusion between bytes left versus UTF-16 characters left. The result is repeated buffer doubling until allocation fails, and a local process crash if the exception is uncaught.
Bug Core Foundation Mac macOS 27 Golden Gate Programming Unicode XML
macOS 26.7.1 (security,
no enterprise,
no developer,
full installer):
This update provides bug fixes and security updates for your Mac.
macOS 15.8.1 (security,
no enterprise,
no developer,
full installer):
This update provides bug fixes and security updates for your Mac.
Though not called out in the release notes, macOS 15.8.1 fixes the regression with RAW files.
For some reason, Apple removed the customary “is recommended for all users” from the release notes.
Previously:
Mac macOS 15 Sequoia macOS Release macOS Tahoe 26 Raw Image Format
Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes,
no security,
iOS/iPadOS enterprise,
no developer):
According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 27.0.1 addresses an issue that could cause Face ID not to work properly on the iPhone 18 Pro.
Some iPhone 18 Pro users have complained that authentication can fail to work for things like unlocking a locked app. In some cases, the device freezes up and then reboots. Other users have seen a “ Face ID is Not Available” message when attempting Face ID setup, and others have experienced issues with the Require Attention for Face ID setting.
Juli Clover:
Apple’s security support pages say there was a CoreGraphics out-of-bounds write issue that could be exploited with a maliciously crafted file, allowing for arbitrary code execution. […] Apple says the flaw was exploited in an “extremely sophisticated attack” on targeted individuals running older versions of iOS.
Previously:
Update (2026-10-15): ANCIL:
Absolutely shocking to me how this is always my experience with Apple’s search functionalities
Update (2026-10-21): Benjamin Mayo:
Just a matter of days after iOS 27 has been released to the public, people have already discovered a way to temporarily brick your phone with a quick series of swipes on the home screen. And it’s starting to going viral on social media as some kind of iPhone prank to do on your friends.
Luckily, it is only a software soft-lock and you can easily get out of this temporarily bricked state by force rebooting your phone.
It will apparently be fixed in iOS 27.2.
Face ID iOS iOS 27 iOS Release iPadOS iPadOS 27 iPadOS Release iPhone 18 Pro
