Seems an engineer stole source code, docs, presentations…etc related to car technology.
I’ve seen the same thing first hand with people in senior leadership roles at big companies.
Not a lot of upsides to whistleblow this stuff.
It’s just the same “How to succeed” PowerPoint preseo floating around after hundreds of logo changes. Rumours say a temp made it back in 2007 and that’s why it’s still 4:3.
Way earlier than 2007. I saw one of those “how to succeed” PowerPoint presentations back in '98 as a “Junior IT Manager.” I quickly realized why both of my coworkers in line ahead of me refused the promotion.
Clippy can suffer the fate of a flammenwerfer.
Does it have ricey WordArt?
Spins onto screen and everything. Kid really knew their shit.
Wow really just gonna bust out the bigoted language over a PowerPoint?
Dunno what you’re on about, but people need just a glimpse at your comment history for such examples. Wowzer.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Nvidia is in hot water after one of its software engineers accidentally let a rival company—and his former employer—in on a secret: that he stole its top-secret research and took it to the trillion-dollar tech giant.
During a video call with automotive tech firm Valeo last year, the engineer, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, made a blunder when he shared his screen and showed his ex-colleagues some source code that they immediately recognized as their own.
“[Moniruzzaman] realized that his knowledge of, and exposure and access to, Valeo proprietary software, technologies, and development techniques would make him exceedingly valuable to Nvidia,” the firm said in the lawsuit.
He then stole tens of thousands of files and 6 gigabytes of source code, after which, [he] attempted to cover his tracks by subsequently removing his personal account from authorized access.”
Upon recognizing the source code and file names that were displayed on Moniruzzaman’s screen during the call, Valeo employees took a screenshot and passed it back to their employer.
Moniruzzaman, who is based in Germany, was convicted of unlawful acquisition, use, and disclosure of Valeo’s trade secrets by German authorities in September this year, according to the lawsuit.
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That’s why I always share individual windows, never the whole screen. My desktop is nobody’s business.
There’s a lot of blind accusations there, Valeo claims NVidia used their research but don’t specify what research or even what product NVidia have used it in.
Edit: Another article explains it much better. NVidia and Valeo competed on an AI project, NVidia won the software part, then in a video call between the two to develop the project Moniruzzaman was caught with Valeo code.
Not that blind.
“When he minimized the PowerPoint presentation he had been sharing, however, he revealed one of Valeo’s verbatim source code files open on his computer. So brazen was Mr. Moniruzzaman’s theft, the file path on his screen still read ‘ValeoDocs.’”
Ooofh that’s pretty damning. 😂
Thanks for copying that in, dang pay wall.
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.
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.
Ah, there’s the rub. Thanks I was having a hard time figuring this one out.
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.
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You’re completely missing my point. I’m not saying he didn’t take the files - he’s already been convicted of that. I’m saying Valeo have not demonstrated in any way that NVidia used the material he stole in one of their products. They claim that in the lawsuit, but provide no basis for that claim.
