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Nvidia offices raided by French competition authority (www.theverge.com)

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[-] Tibert@jlai.lu 144 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

For people not knowing French, the Nvidia offices were not raided by heavily armed forces, with guns or whatever shooting.

"Perquisition" is just some cops/people coming and getting into your stuff or taking it for analysis. It's like a search in Nvidia's stuff/software/internal communications. It required a warrant given by a judge.

[-] thorcik@lemmy.world 106 points 9 months ago

Were they looking for the latest Linux drivers?

[-] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 18 points 9 months ago

They're gonna need bigger guns then.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 9 points 9 months ago

Still didn't found that piece of software

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 52 points 9 months ago

You just described a raid...

[-] Tibert@jlai.lu 33 points 9 months ago

Some people may see it in some other way.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 23 points 9 months ago

I think it's only in French that we associate raid with "all guns blazing" because we use the English word for cool action movies and the French one for boring news segments.

[-] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 9 months ago

it's not only in French. The word raid is quite connotated with an armed police raid, at least in non native speakers.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah that makes sense, probably for similar reasons right?

[-] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago

not sure if it is only because of the movies. Even in the (world) news that you may read online it is much more often to read in the headlines of a violent armed police raid than service workers walking in to get the accounting books. So I guess it could also be that we've never seen or used this word in another context.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah the movies are just an example but indeed also in the news they'll use raid for when the armed police kicks the door down but perquisition for the boring ones. It's just what the words mean at this point, I guess back in the days it was "perquisition armée" (armed).

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

Maybe I'm too American raised in too much cop movies but a raid always comes off like body armor, armor piercing rounds of ammo, and flash bangs.

So I kinda need it explained like this.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago

I think it mostly has that connotation but a bunch of feds showing up unexpectedly at an office to confiscate the books and computers before they can shred/delete data I'd still call a raid.

[-] Discoslugs@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Raids in america involve guns swat teams and often phantom warrants.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 39 points 9 months ago

This is a problem with the US news in general because it uses the words "raid" and "execute search warrant on" as synonyms, when the former conjures up images of guys in body-armor with carbines and the latter a couple of cops and a bunch of specialized investigators. Like, various layers of US government have "raided" many of Trump's properties, and obviously it was the latter and not the former, it's not like Trump is gonna get the Breonna Taylor service.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Also, just to be absolutely clear, no neighbours were shot, or anything of the sort.

[-] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

People are more likely to click on exciting headlines that play up drama, its like clickbait 101. "Nvidia office was searched" may be a more accurate realistic description but not super exciting. When I see 'raid' I think of SWAT teams busting up drug cartel homebases.

[-] ripcord@kbin.social 32 points 9 months ago

But that's exactly what I assumed happened when reading the headline. Almost no native English speaker would assume it meant there was a shootout, or violence, or whatever. What you described is a typical "raid" executed against a company.

[-] gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think for a lot of people the word raid has connotation with an armed police raid.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Raided" is one of those bombastic clickbait headline words, like "slammed" or whatever. Unless it was actually a SWAT team busting down the door, what they should be saying is "executed a search warrant."

[-] rishado@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Isn't this the same as when they raid wall st offices? They don't take a swat team there afaik

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yes, in the sense that those aren't deserving of the word "raid" either.

[-] Zima@kbin.social 89 points 9 months ago

Nvidia is pretty cut throat so the chances of them doing something wrong are high, but i'm not sure about the chances of finding evidence. they must have effective policies to defeat investigations, most big companies have them.

[-] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 65 points 9 months ago

Never underestimate the power of dumb procedures or the power of a government body who is certain they have a case.

Also remember, if it's not the act, it's usually the cover-up that gets ppl and companies on the hook.

Either way, this will be interesting.

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Let me dream. As someone who gets physically sick at the proprietary bullshit they shove down everyone's throat, customer or not, I would love to see them get any level of reprocussion however unlikely.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 48 points 9 months ago

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[-] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 months ago

That was an IMAX experience

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

This one weird trick to have all your gifs play exactly at the users current brain resolution.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 29 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Nvidia’s France offices were raided by the country’s competition authority this week, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

While the French agency doesn’t mention Nvidia by name, it confirms it carried out a raid over concerns about anti-competitive practices in the graphics cards industry.

Sources tell the WSJ that French authorities specifically targeted Nvidia, which has seen demand for its chips skyrocket in recent months.

According to the WSJ, these types of raids occur early in the morning and have authorities “search a company’s premises, seize physical and digital materials and interview employees who arrive for work.” The French authority says it conducted the raid as part of its increased scrutiny on cloud technology, a topic the agency published a market study on in June.

A machine-translated version of the French agency’s press release says that dawn raids “do not pre-suppose the existence of a breach of the law,” which is something “only a full investigation” can establish.

However, a raid could suggest that Nvidia’s reign in the chipmaking market isn’t going unnoticed by global governments.

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