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Nvidia sued after senior employee accidentally showed off confidential files taken from previous employer during a video meeting (fortune.com)
submitted 11 months ago by douglasg14b@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Seems an engineer stole source code, docs, presentations...etc related to car technology.

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[โ€“] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 28 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Ooofh that's pretty damning. ๐Ÿ˜‚

Thanks for copying that in, dang pay wall.

[โ€“] TWeaK@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's damning for the guy, who has already been convicted, but not necessarily for NVidia. Valeo have provided no evidence of NVidia using their code, nor even mention of any specific NVidia product it might have been used in.

[โ€“] MNByChoice@midwest.social 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

You are right, and it could be the article. Pulling details from another place the same story, but from The Verge, and discussed elsewhere. https://lemmy.nz/post/3702572

Valeo and Nvidia competed on a contract. Valeo only won the hardware part, Nvidia only won the software part. The lawsuit is about Nvidia benefiting on the software part Valeo did to attempt to win the whole contract.

[โ€“] Dangdoggo@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Ah, there's the rub. Thanks I was having a hard time figuring this one out.

[โ€“] TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Direct link to the article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/23/23973673/valeo-nvidia-autonomous-driving-software-ip-theft-lawsuit

TL;DR NVidia and Valeo competed for an AI contract, Valeo won the hardware side but NVidia won the software (surely that's backwards lol). The two companies had to work together on the project, it was during such a project call that Moniruzzaman was caught with old Valeo code.

So yeah, that's much more damning, and the Fortune article did a poor job with the story by not explaining that.

[โ€“] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's exactly the take-away I got from the whole thing. One idiot copy-pasted stuff and used it in front of the people he copied it from.

Valeo will have a hard time proving its use, without a third party doing some searching in a lot of source code. One person with access to all of both sides' code in order to compare them? that seems like a big ask for a fishing expedition.

[โ€“] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Well it looks like they probably did use it though. The one guy had the code on his NVidia work laptop, and NVidia won an AI software contract over Valeo. It was in a collaborative call with Valeo (who won the hardware portion of the contract) that the code was revealed. NVidia may well be ordered to hand over their code for examination, to prove that Valeo's code isn't present in there. If Valeo get the injunction, NVidia will have to cease using that code and rewrite it entirely.