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NVIDIA sued for stealing trade secrets after screensharing blunder showed rival company's code (www.engadget.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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NVIDIA sued for stealing trade secrets after screensharing blunder showed rival company's code::NVIDIA is facing a lawsuit filed by French automotive company Valeo after a screensharing blunder by one of its employees.

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 11 months ago (1 children)

LOOL sit: https://archive.is/k7GJM

Valeo claims Moniruzzaman realized the expertise he had gained working on its projects made him “exceedingly valuable to Nvidia.” In 2021, according to the lawsuit, shortly before he left Valeo, Moniruzzaman spirited tens of thousands of files and six gigabytes of the company’s source code to his personal email account. He allegedly tried to hide his misconduct by subsequently deleting his personal account’s authorized access to the Valeo network.

Almost as dumb as the person who tried to steal Coca Cola's inner can coating trade secrets

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You not going to tell us about the Coca Cola guy now?

We could ask ChatGPT, but having more content here can’t hurt.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It was pretty recent, so you won't find it in GPT. A chemist was going to be laid off, and in a last ditch effort she copied a bunch of formulas and applied for grants to develop them in China iirc. Here's an article: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/coca-cola-chemist-gets-14-years-for-passing-can-secrets-to-china

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. That article had a paywall I’ve linked an alternative for others if they find this.

Interesting read. I don’t know how I feel about a company patenting something which has massive health benefits for people like this though.

alternative source

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Trade secrets aren't patented because when you patent something, it'll immediately become public knowledge (not secret anymore) in exchange for exclusive right (no one can use it without your permission) until the patent expires. Coca cola recipe and KFC's secret spices are examples of trade secrets. If they're patented, people would've been able to create exact copies by now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The "secret spices" are salt, pepper, paprika, powdered garlic, powdered onion, and some other stuff. Cayenne in the spicy ones. It's not a secret. People didn't discover fried chicken yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

'some other stuff' where's the rest of the 11 herbs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I guess there's no onion powder, but the ingredients are pretty simple to taste.

https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-are-kfcs-11-herbs-and-spices/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The most recent training cutoff point is April 2023, so ChatGPT should be able to give an answer to that.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't exactly NVIDIA, but an employee from another company who was hired by NVIDIA. Whether NVIDIA asked the employee to steal for them will probably determine how deep in hot water they are.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Even if they didn't ask him to do it, if he instantly produced a truckload of code they knew where it came from and that it was illegally obtained.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Well you gotta stay ahead of the competition somehow. And nVidia is nVidia. They do this kind of thing all the time, until it can be proven. Sadly this will have very little repercussions. They will settle outside of court for some lofty sum of money they can easily afford and job done keep doing it. I assume this is another reason why they will never open source their drivers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

They won't open source their drivers, but community will) NVK for the way, recently they passed vulkan 1.0 test, progress is going bois)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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