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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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
You not going to tell us about the Coca Cola guy now?
We could ask ChatGPT, but having more content here can’t hurt.
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
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.
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.
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.
‘some other stuff’ where’s the rest of the 11 herbs
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/
The most recent training cutoff point is April 2023, so ChatGPT should be able to give an answer to that.
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.
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.
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.
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)
NVIDIA is pouring billions into scientific research. They’re not trying to stay ahead of the competition by stealing secrets, they are the ones doing the groundbreaking research
Sure, every company invests at least to a degree into R&D, that’s how you stay ahead but this is not the first time nVidia has been caught doing shady stuff. For them it’s biggest income for least amount of effort users be damned. This video albeit old and outdated does a good job at illustrating how nVidia loves abusing their position and just how malicious they are given the opportunity.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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Why not both?
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This is a silly hot take. If I figured something out before the rest of the world, I’m entitled to my knowledge and don’t owe sharing it with the world if I don’t want to.
Proprietary is a way to keep market share longer than the competition, that’s it. If you figured something complex out earlier, then you’re set for a while until your competition figures it out too.
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Within a week lol
What industry do you work in? Or of more relevance: what industry experience do you have?
No.
