I bet Israel has long had information about multiple of Huang’s affairs and was using it as leverage to get such a large investment by NVIDIA in Israel.

They do specialize in signals surveillance and remote phone hacking so it makes total sense for them to proactivelly target figures that control nations or very large companies with surveillance to obtain kompromat and thus leverage over them.

Specifically for Huang, having multiple affairs when he has been married for 40 years (since before NVIDIA became as big as it is) would make it very easy to blackmail him with proof of said affairs since his wife can take half his fortune if she divorces him, so a perfect weak link in NVIDIA’s management structure.

The guy probably had his smartphone with him when he went to meet his mistresses and maybe even in the room when he was doing the deed and even if he didn’t, one or more of the mistresses probably did.

I wonder if Israel pushed him into funny business like purposefully weaken or even backdoor NVIDIA products to facilitate Israeli surveilance.

Neatly showing how Microsoft is a single point of failure for the operations of a lot of businesses.

I’m thinking Huang fucking everybody is pretty representative of how NVIDIA treats its retail customers.

The whole thing - from the jacket to putting is little huang werever he could - stinks of mid-life crisis mixed with the kind of entitlement and priviledge billioniares have in this society.

Hope his wife of 40s years takes him to the cleaners.

We’re trully entering a new Golden Age for hacking!

I’m not so sure billionaire types know more that a handful of people who do not want something from them and even if they do they would recognize it, especially the ones who are CEOs of large companies, a group were sociopaths are far more common than amongst the general population.

Further, I bet their mindset is one of taking advantage of people offering them sex because of wanting something from them, and that they do it because they’re selfish sociopath cunts.

I think the explanation that they’re sociopaths whose relation to everybody around them is entirelly transactional and who thus will use attractive women for sex when they feel they can which given their fortune and positions of responsability is probably common enough (so, very much an entirelly objectifying mindset leveraging very steep power inbalances), is a much more likely explanation than “insecurities”.

I’ve worked in Investment Banking at the mid-level, and even at that level there’s already lots of sociopathy and psychopathy as well as disfunctionality around sexuality and the amounts of money sloshing around and being made by such people is far less than with CEOs of large publicly traded companies. Whilst these are not psychologically normal and healthy people, from what I’ve seen “insecurities” isn’t usually their problem.

Well, at least it wasn’t one involving anybody underaged, which in this day and age is actually pretty good for billionaire CEOs.

He stuck something were he wasn’t supposed to and it sure wasn’t his nose.

… mi cucaracha! 🎵

Look, profit driven companies are only ever in favor of a cause when it either makes them money, impedes their competition in some way (very common when very large companies suddenly desire regulation, invariably of a kind that will be disproportinatelly costly for small companies that might enter their markets) or they gain more attracting customers thanks to the PR value of it than they lose in other ways.

So it’s all “washing” - ecowashing, rainbow-washing and so on.

The behaviour of profit driven companies is the equivalent to Sociopaths, so everything they do, they do only if they think it makes them more money.

The only exception to this rule is some privatelly owned companies were the controlling owners have certain moral values which they enforce on the company they own.

Yeah, this is the reaction to just a tiny change in the investor expectations on the industry being under scrutiny and not just unconditionally saved with taxpayer’s money like in the 2008 Crash around (when, by the way, there was a Democrat administration in power which unconditionally save the entire industry that had fucked things up massivelly, thus protecting the value of the Assets of the ultra-rich, hence the huge growth in inequality in the following decade).

If there’s one thing the response to the 2008 Crash taught the people which have most of the money is that governments can and will have the general population endure massive pain in order to save the value of the Assets of the billionaires (and thus their wealth) and people won’t do jack shit about it beyond a few demonstrations where they peacefully complain and still get assaulted by some of the most violent and sadistic pigs around.

So I expect this is entirelly about a change in the expectations of how likely public money is going to be used to save AI “investors” and AI companies (all that paid with Austerity for the riff-raff) from all the reckless done by those companies and not at all about those with all the money suddenly discovering that the industry was reckless - I’m pretty sure they were well aware of that already.

The bubble has been pumped up so high and for so long that we’re not even near the point were those who jumped into it in January are actually losing money, much less those who jumped into it 2 or more years ago started fearing that they’ll lose money in their “investment”.

You do see the professionals changing their posture (especially in the Money Markets), but the rout hasn’t started yet, IMHO.

Some idiot put some other idiot, kid, or incompetent bullshitter in charge of designing the network for a Financial company and they did what idiots, inexperienced kids and incompetent bullshiters do and put the Production machines in the same network and easily accessible by machines were users can install any random shit from the Internet.

Sooner or later something like what happened now would’ve happened.

The fault is entirely with the decision maker who chose to have somebody else other than a senior expert design the systems architecture of a business that is supposed to safekeep billions of dollars.

Indeed.

Any half way decent software designer, systems designer or IT security specialist always assumes at least some people are idiots, or naive, or make mistakes even though they know better.

And it only takes one of those doing their thing once for an attacker to get in.

So they design their stuff taking that into account, which in this case means DESIGNING THE FUCKING NETWORK TOPOLOGY SO THAT THE FUCKING PRODUCTION MACHINES DEALING WITH FUCKING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AREN’T EXPOSED TO PCs WHERE USERS CAN INSTALL ANY SHIT FROM THE INTERNET!

(Sorry, got a bit pissed of with the tremendous incompetence displayed by whomever is their systems designer or whomever didn’t hire a fucking senior systems designer to setup the IT infrastructure of a Finance company)

Mind you, in my career I’ve also worked in Startups and they think somebody who has 5 years experience is senior and put them in charge of shit they really shouldn’t be in charge of or probably even touch, so this isn’t surprising to me, even if it’s still infuriating.

Their specialty is mass surveillance and monetizing the results of it, so it’s a bit unfair to expect them to be competent in other domains.

I think the same “professional” environment where whomever made the decisions for systems architecture thought that Production systems that deal with a shitton of money should be in the same network as machines which aren’t locked down like crazy and whose users can install whatever the fuck they want, is the kind of environment where people thinks vibe coding is great.

Incompetent idiots leading incompetent idiots.

I have literally bought a car once for less than this.

(Used and pretty old, but still, a whole fucking car).

This is mostly how I’ve been using my smartphone and tablet for years when it comes to computing (still use the smartphone as an actual phone) - when I’m out and about the smartphone is just a hotspot for when I have no free WiFi and I do most stuff on the tablet.

The problem is that there are very few Linux tablets and they’re all on the large size (10"+) hence you can’t just carry them in your back pocket or coat pocket.

So that means Android tablets, which means you’re still running Google’s eavesdropping OS.

Further, more and more companies and even official institutions now push you to use their apps in Android. Just recently my bank decided to scrap their perfectly sane and secure secondary authentication mechanism (which was literally a plastic card with lots of codes and thus pretty much not hackable and whose weaknesses were entirelly known and consistent for all users) for mandatory installation of their Android banking app on people’s smartphones to use (I! Kid! You! Not!) the phone’s fingerprint and facial-recognition systems (thus being exposed to the weaknesses of who knows how many different HW and SW combinations).

A Finance company which has its production systems in the same network as worker computers which aren’t locked-down tight is basically amateur hour every hour of the day every day of the month every month of the year.

You can never assume that workers won’t do stupid shit like downloading random software into their work computers even when its a fuckingly obvious bad idea for most people to do such stupid shit - it only takes one idiot, naive fool or even momentary distraction of somebody who should’ve known better to end up with your network hacked, so you always treat such devices as possibly contaminated.