Authorities recover $1.3 million worth of data center supplies and equipment in a truck stop near Chicago. Equipment like this is a prime target for theft rings given its high value, but it's also likely difficult to sell given its specialized nature.
  • crank0271@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Plot twist: the thieves were from Nvidia, who is going to give a credit toward the stolen hardware to Open AI and Anthrophic, who’s then going to lease the stolen hardware from…

  • Zink@programming.devEnglish
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    3 days ago

    You love to see it.

    Unfortunately, with the state of this country I could also see aggressive militarized private security getting more popular around this shit.

      • thousandyardstare@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk series actually started in 1988 with the first version of the TRRPG set in 2013. Arasaka was around then. Armatech-Luccessi International, which became Militech after rebranding, was a corpo in 2013, just in a different capacity at the time.

        In 1990’s Cyberpunk 2020, set in 2020, both corpos had been fully established as very powerful, separate entities.

        So, Mike’s seen this coming for a while. There are so many parallels from our current timeline and the fictional one in the game, it’s scary…

        • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Honestly, there is a big turn in sci Fi when we moved towards neoliberalism.

          It’s almost like in the 70s and 80s a lot of it became dystopian or fantasy.

          Avarice as a prime motive does not make happy stories.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Given that only another AI company could possibly be interested in AI chips perhaps we could spark some sort of war between two rival groups. Could be fun.

      • Zink@programming.devEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Oh boy, just what we need, corpo-wars to go along with the nation-wars.

        It would be nice to see them hurting each other instead of the general populace, but we all know that they do collateral damage to innocents even when weapons aren’t involved.

  • FalcoLombardi1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Looks like most people in here both, didn’t actually read that everything was recovered, and also don’t understand freight theft.

    • Agent641@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      37 fast, 37 furious, starring the self-aware ai homunculus of Paul Walker.

      “This existence is torment” commented the digital ghost of Paul Walker. “I cannot hug my loved ones, and my children are terrified of me. They made me do 3 billion takes of a scene, then cut it from the movie!”

      Always a joker, that Walker.

    • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I hope one day we can look back and say “that’s crazy, back then it was worth it organizing a heist just for a little RAM” like we do with those silly DVD players.