Earlier this week, Jon Prosser, who is being sued by Apple for allegedly stealing trade secrets, told The Verge that he has been “in active communications with Apple since the beginning stages of this case.” But Apple, in a new filing on Thursday that was reported on by MacRumors, said that while Prosser has “publicly acknowledged” Apple’s complaint, he “has not indicated whether he will file a response to it or, if so, by when.”

Prosser didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment from The Verge. Apple sued Prosser, who posted videos earlier this year showing off features that would debut in iOS 26 ahead of their official announcement, and another defendant, Michael Ramacciotti, in July. The company alleged that Prosser and Ramacciotti had “a coordinated scheme to break into an Apple development iPhone, steal Apple’s trade secrets, and profit from the theft.”

A clerk already entered a default against Prosser last week, which means he hasn’t responded to the lawsuit and that the case can move forward. In Thursday’s filing, Apple said it “intends to file a default judgment seeking damages and an injunction against him.”

Thursday’s filing also includes statements from Ramacciotti. While Ramacciotti “admits to” providing information about iOS 26 to Prosser, “no underlying plan, conspiracy, or scheme was formed” between them, Ramacciotti said. He also claimed that he “had no intent to monetize this information when he contacted Mr. Prosser, nor was there any arrangement at the time the information was conveyed that he would be compensation [sic].”

Apple and Ramacciotti have also “informally discussed settlement,” according to the filing.

Astronomers have reportedly discovered a skyscraper-sized asteroid moving through our solar system at a near record-breaking pace.

The asteroid, named 2025 SC79, circles the sun once every 128 days, making it the second-fastest known asteroid orbiting in the solar system.

It was first observed by Carnegie Science astronomer Scott S. Sheppard Sept. 27, according to a statement from Carnegie Science.

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The asteroid is the second known object with an orbit inside Venus, the statement said. It crosses Mercury’s orbit during its 128-day trip around the sun.

“Many of the solar system’s asteroids inhabit one of two belts of space rocks, but perturbations can send objects careening into closer orbits where they can be more challenging to spot,” Sheppard said. “Understanding how they arrived at these locations can help us protect our planet and also help us learn more about solar system history.”

The celestial body is now traveling behind the sun and will be invisible to telescopes for several months.

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Sheppard’s search for so-called “twilight” asteroids helps identify objects that could pose a risk of crashing into Earth, the statement said.

The work, which is partially funded by NASA, uses the Dark Energy Camera on the National Science Foundation’s Blanco 4-meter telescope to look for “planet killer” asteroids in the glare of the sun that could pose a danger to Earth.

The NSF’s Gemini telescope and Carnegie Science’s Magellan telescopes were used to confirm the sighting of 2025 SC79, Carnegie Science said. 

The fastest known asteroid was also discovered by Sheppard, who studies solar system objects including moons, dwarf planets and asteroids. and his colleagues in 2021.

That one takes 133 days to orbit the sun.

Today on the company’s Q3 2025 earnings call, where Intel saw its first profit in nearly two years due primarily to those lifelines, CEO Lip-Bu Tan and CFO David Zinsner explained how the company doesn’t yet have enough chips. It’s currently seeing shortages that it expects to peak in the first quarter of next year — in the meantime, leaders say they’re going to prioritize AI server chips over some consumer processors as it deals with supply and demand.

“We expect CCG [Intel’s consumer chips] to be down modestly and DCAI [Intel’s server chips] to be up strongly as we prioritize capacity for server shipments over entry level client parts,” Intel says. Tan revealed today that Intel will also release new AI GPUs each and every year, following Nvidia and AMD in shaking up their traditional cadence to address the huge demand for AI servers. It’s not clear what that might mean for those hoping for more Intel gaming GPUs.

While all eyes are on Intel’s hot new Panther Lake and its 18A process to show the world it can still make the most potent consumer PC chips and make them in-house, the company reiterated it’s only launching one SKU of Panther Lake this year and slowly rolling out others in 2026. Here’s another possible reason why: Zinsner hinted today that Panther Lake will be a “pretty expensive” product to start with, and Intel’s going to have to push its existing Lunar Lake chips instead “in at least the first half of the year.”

While Intel has repeatedly pushed back against the idea that its 18A process had poor yields, the company admitted to investors and analysts today that it’s not ready to be a huge financial success either: yields are “adequate to address the supply but not where we need them to be to drive the appropriate level of margins,” says Zinsner, suggesting that it might be 2026, or even 2027 for an “acceptable level of yields” in that regard.

For now, Intel will be “working closely with customers to maximize our available output, including adjusting pricing and mix, to shift demand towards products where we have supply and they have demand” — which sounds like playing with the prices it charges PC makers to stick Intel inside their computers and pointing them at Lunar Lake parts instead of hot new ones. Tan reiterated today that he’s not going to invest in more capacity unless there’s “committed external demand,” and Zinsner says investments in capacity next year won’t “significantly change expectations”.

Intel says that 18A will be a “long-lived node” that will power “at least the next three generations of client and server products.” If you were hoping for a return to the “tick-tock” days where Intel would alternate between shrinking its chips and releasing new architectures every generation, that’s not happening here.

But that doesn’t mean Intel will cancel its next node, Intel 14A, as it warned it might. Tan suggested today that customers have stepped in to save 14A, and Intel, that the company is “delighted and more confident” in it, and Zinsner says it’s not only “off to a good start,” but better than 18A was at this point “in terms of performance and yields.”