Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand
https://www.wired.com/story/thieves-stole-nvidia-trailers-they-got-20-tons-of-sand/
Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand
https://www.wired.com/story/thieves-stole-nvidia-trailers-they-got-20-tons-of-sand/
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Yea… autonomous truck testing. literally reading the trailer could have clued them in on that…seeing the decal on the door of the tractor would confirm it for me.
Had a coworker that had PSUYA on his hardhat. When you asked him what it meant he’d say “Pack sand up your ass!”
Looks like that’s what these thieves got.
The trailer itself seems like a pretty obvious clue. I’m surprised they didn’t check the markings before driving off with it.
That is so Mad Max
I bought a 9070 xt just after launch from a big UK retailer. A few days later I was still waiting for it to ship. After some pestering, a CSR for the company let me know they’d had an entire income truck stolen with a shipment of the GPUs and they were having to backfill orders for a week. A day later, there were a bunch of posts about it ok the company’s forum (all removed by mods now).
This happened before GPU prices went batshit instance, when they were just loopy. Now, these things are like gold and must be super attractive to thieves.
Anakin’s gonna be so pissed off.
Close, we just have to get the sand real hot, and add some electricity into it.
So go pound sand.
“They likely came for silicon—but left with silica.”
A+ sub-headline.
If I were conducting autonomous trucking tests, I would have installed a bunch of non-obvious cameras on the trailers that recorded whenever they were being moved.
In case anything happened, the video could be reviewed later.
If its the sand they use for chips, worth a lot more than the playground kind.
If their intent was millions and got nothing, shouldn’t this be decades in jail still?
Sounds like they could have pulled it off right if they were FAMILY
Maybe they were a family of thieves hoping for a bunch of VCR TV combos and DVD players?
Son of a beach 🏖️
Pascal, Ampere, Turing, Ada Lovelace, Sandy Green.
Isn’t sand becoming more and more of a limited resource? It’s used in cement and all kinds of shit. There’s cartels for it.
And just like that, the corporate sand wars have begun
South Korean police and army escort SK hynix trucks to the port
I’ve seen videos of people opening an expensive RTX box, and finding rocks or whatever in there instead of the card. But this is a whole other level.
I’m imagining a reboot of the original fast and furious but with gpus instead of dvd players.
Fuck Nvidia and Jensen