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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by gla67890543 on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:08AM (#50421660)
Spooks from CIA must be aware of this for a long time. The only question now is why this information is leaked now? What is the distraction they are trying to create by leaking this now?
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by datahack on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:11AM (#50421677)
The market just corrected. That’s why.
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by nemonemo on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:29AM (#50421835)
It could be just as simple as taking time to be confident. Or it could have been somebody wanted to use this as a bargaining chip and failed somehow... Who knows.
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by mi_lk on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:04AM (#50422527)
Just days after midterms? Sure
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by lakeviewterrace on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:58AM (#50422025)
I saw a clip of them together on what appeared to be Korean TV.

What was the original source?

Was it leaked or a Korean TMZ-type tabloid thing?

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by ransom1538 on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:02AM (#50422054)
Spooks is a pretty knowing term to use. Not exactly a word the average person throws around. And yes, they likely knew long before now. Right after the midterms? Interesting timing. Seems the spooks are doing what spooks do.
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by rdidjdi3748 on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:03AM (#50422065)
There’s a British TV show with that title
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by newterminus on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:32AM (#50422270)
hey been trying to meet you
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by antonvs on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:05AM (#50423008)
They had to rename it to “MI-5” for the US market. The word doesn’t have the same connotations in the US as it does in the UK. One reason is that it was used as a racial slur in WWII and after the war.
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by kelnos on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:19AM (#50423139)
I think that's just a result of the term falling out of common use in the US. I'd expect 30 years ago "Spooks" would be a perfectly fine name for a TV show in the US. (I remember watching spy shows/movies and reading spy novels as a kid in the 80s/90s and hearing/reading that term.)
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by nonethewiser on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:19AM (#50426848)
It generally doesn't. People should stop reviving the negative connotation. Sure if someone is calling a black person a spook let's call them out but if that's not how it's being used let's not insist it's an inherently racist term. It's totally counter-productive.

Not what you are doing, just elaborating because while it can be used as a racial slur it doesn't generally have that connotation. I think if you directly asked most people they would either not know about the slur or not be able to specifically identify the targeted group. We can choose to let the term die.

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by JohnMakin on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:39AM (#50422344)
what? no it isn’t
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by latentsea on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:58AM (#50422479)
You seem to know it.
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by nonethewiser on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:14AM (#50426766)
What are you talking about?
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by specked-citrus on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:02AM (#50422058)
The administration has known about it since at least May. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/us/politics/rubio-nvidia-...

This "what distraction are they trying to make" line is ridiculous conspiracism. It's completely obvious that someone leaked it to the NY Times because they are alarmed that the admin is doing nothing about what is obviously a huge national security problem.

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by sleight42 on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:17AM (#50422145)
Why assume it was a US leak?
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by hellgas00 on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:24AM (#50422202)
It just seems like a coordinated crack down on Nvidia's relationship China.

Consider that the leak destroys the legitimacy of Huang's lobbying efforts efforts against tighter chips controls to China. In parallel the NYT released yesterday their investigation into commerce dept approvals of h200 chips to Chinese entities that the NYT claims are ghost offices linked to Chinese military contractors [1]. Also consider that these events put Nvidia under long term congressional security oversight with an installed watch dog. Nvidia is losing it's autonomy to cut international deals. Seems like the CIA/permeant state is getting nervous about China again.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/07/business/economy/nvidia-c...

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by colechristensen on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:43AM (#50422369)
Maybe whomever knew wasn't sure of the election outcome of the revelation so they held it until reasonably afterwards.
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by camgunz on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:46AM (#50422391)
I would guess it's to avoid Congressional investigations.
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by sgt101 on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:07AM (#50422547)
He has a close relationship with Trump, so this could be an internal Whitehouse play to hurt Trump, or, he might have "disappointed" Trump, so this could be punishment.

Alternatively this could be a Chinese play designed to sow dissent and disruption in the USA post the mid-terms.

Or, it could just be a rather trivial story about an over confident and all to human titan of industry making the kind of mess in his personal life that a lot of people end up making - watch any TV mini series for example after example.

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by antonvs on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:51AM (#50422900)
How would personal trouble in Huang’s life hurt Trump? Compared to all the other things that Trump has done to hurt himself, culminating in the midterm results?

And China, really? What dissent is this going to cause? As for disruption, Nvidia essentially has a monopoly on what they do. Who the person in charge is, or what he’s doing, barely matters at this point.

> watch any TV mini series for example after example.

You might have been watching too many of those.

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by Betelbuddy on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:19AM (#50422636)
It has already leaked Trump and Rubio knew about this for 1 year.
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by CodeArtisan on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:30AM (#50422720)
It was known for months already.

(May 2026) https://culperresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Culper...

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by 4ggr0 on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:44AM (#50423808)
> Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has not only vouched for Megaspeed, but seems to have quite literally walked alongside Megaspeed at every step, while maintaining an uncomfortably close relationship with Megaspeed’s Alice Huang, a Chinese national. He was first spotted partying with Alice Huang in June 2024 – the same month the Apex/Alibaba pledge was filed. He then dined with Alice Huang in Taiwan in May 2025 - just weeks after the news of U.S. trade restrictions.
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by Zigurd on Monday November 09, 2026 @11:25AM (#50427755)
Counterespionage isn't magically more competent than any other intelligence function. It seems like a pretty obvious prediction to make that because of the lackadaisy in following normal national security preventative measures in the Trump administrations, all kinds of preventable penetrations and compromise have happened in the past decade, now that we have a Congress that can investigate these. Elon reportedly calls Putin regularly. That can't be bad, right?