U.S. intelligence sources suggest that Nvidia chief Jensen Huang was targeted by Chinese intelligence in a 'honeypot' operation involving Megaspeed executive Alice Huang.
  • stellargmite@lemmy.worldEnglish
    80·
    6 days ago

    Almost reads like standard Chinese business practice to me. Not to defend any of these grifters. Also , theres some dry humour in the article:

    Notably, Jensen is currently married to his wife of 41 years

    “currently”, haha

  • WhiplashPost@programming.devEnglish
    21·
    5 days ago

    This is, 100%, without a doubt, just a way for him to avoid legal liability for doing things of his own free will. He wasn’t complicit in smuggling! He was taken advantage of by that irresistible Chinese succubus! It’s her fault!

    Now, I don’t really care. I think it’s great that he’s bypassing US sanctions. Altho I would prefer China have its own domestic chip manufacturing and not buy from companies like this, but until that is fully developed they need to get by somehow. But yeah this is the most obvious scapegoating I’ve ever seen.

    In fact, I’d like NOBODY to buy from companies like this. NVIDIA should crash and fucking burn.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Yeah a real honey pot would have been steeling the next gen chip plans so the Chinese could move ahead and fab their own stuff.

  • GMac@feddit.orgEnglish
    66·
    6 days ago

    Waste of a honeypot. I reckon he would sell his grandmother for cash… don’t believe for a moment that he and nvidia are not finding ways to sell past/through/around restrictions anyway

    • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      12·
      5 days ago

      “The girl I’m seeing is asking me to break the law, doing exactly what would bring me more money, and being stupid and naive I fell for it!”

      Yeah, right.

    • Scratch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, it might be like an unspoken plausible deniability contingency.

      If they get caught he couldn’t have known! It was HER!!!

  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dkEnglish
    68·
    6 days ago

    Two billion dollars worth of sales doesn’t seem like the kind of thing any single person could be “fooled” into signing off on.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    5 days ago

    Ah yes, because NVIDIA’s Huang famously never closed his eyes to smuggling without a blowjob. He also never lobbied US gov’t to let him sell chips to China.

    What’s this bullshit trying to accomplish, launder Jensen’s image as a US patriot or something? Or is this insurance against being dragged in court by the democrats for “睜一隻眼閉一隻眼“ (“Open One Eye, Close One Eye”)?

  • MushuChupacabra@piefed.worldEnglish
    12·
    6 days ago

    US intelligence believes Stupid Jacket had romantic relationship with Chinese spy in honeypot operation — spy suspect linked to company accused of smuggling $2 billion in AI chips

      • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        5 days ago

        Everything east of Poland is a type of Russia, like everything south of the US border is a type of Mexico

        • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
          7·
          4 days ago

          Slovenia is south west of Poland. I’m starting to doubt your expertise.

          And Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania might beg to disagree, not to mention Ukraine.

          • Datz@szmer.infoEnglish
            4·
            4 days ago

            He goofed with Slovenia’s location, but no, that last part is the joke. Hence Mexico.

            As an example, Bethesda (last I checked) only provided Russian versions of Fallout: New Vegas to Poland and other Slavic countries in the general area. It’s not consisent, some could change language and just had different forums/mods, while others claimed there was only Russian, but you get the idea. Apparently other games like Dishonored had that issue too, but that example stuck to me.

          • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            4 days ago

            I wrote Germany, thought “ehh that’s too much”, and changed to what in my head is the next one on the right.

            I’m not a smart man.

            Are we happy with everything west of Berlin? Is this just the Yalta conference again