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NVIDIA sued for stealing trade secrets after screensharing blunder showed rival company's code

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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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Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code

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Nvidia sued for stealing trade secrets: blunder showed rival company's code

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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
- 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
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.
- 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.
- No.
- 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
  
  Why not both?
- 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)
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