https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/12/fbi_apple_stealing/ > A former Apple engineer has been hit with federal trade secrets theft charges after trying to lift Cupertino's car tech on behalf of Alibaba. > The California Northern District Court will hear the case (PDF) of Xiaoling Zhang, an engineer who in 2015 was hired to work on the Cupertino music seller's ultra-secretive self-driving car project. He was designing and testing circuit boards before leaving in April of this year to join an Alibaba and Foxconn-backed Chinese startup called Xiaopeng Motors.