DLSS code leaked. This NVIDIA technology was intended to stay out of the public domain forever

Over the weekend, NVIDIA fell victim to a hacking attack that turned out to be bigger than initially reported. The hackers are asking the company to turn its own drivers into an open-source library, and if NVIDIA does not comply with their ultimatum, they will publish more information on the company’s plans.

We condemn theft. However, in this stalemate for NVIDIA, users may come out unscathed

To say that the hacker attack was successful is like saying nothing. This is obviously a cyber crime, punishable by law and illegal. However, the commentators at times glorify the effectiveness of the attack and the policy of the LAPSUS $ group, which can change a lot in the field of NVIDIA technology to the disadvantage of the company, but to the benefit of users.

The hackers have already released the source code (it is being viewed by a team familiar with the TechPowerUp website), who can bypass the LHR block, limiting the mining of cryptocurrencies, and soon after it it turned out that they also have the DLSS source code in the latest version 2.2. It is Deep Learning Super Sampling technology that is already changing computer graphics, providing the possibility of scaling the image to higher resolutions in real time.

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While this is intellectual theft, competitors can examine the code for key components to enrich their own technologies by refactoring the work of NVIDIA engineers. It is also an opportunity for developers of independent open-source drivers for Linux, who will be able to translate stolen code into open-source software.