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...

ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 34d

Big truck for one stick of RAM

the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 34d

Fuck yeah, keep it up. If we cant have the hardware neither can they.

Zink@programming.dev · 24 pts · 34d (8 replies)

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.

Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 34d (4 replies)

The Arasaka and Militech corpo future is closer than 2077 it seems

thousandyardstare@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 34d (2 replies)

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.world · 4 pts · 34d

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.

CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d

Just waiting for Trump to invade Panema and bring about the final collapse of the US.

edible_funk@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 33d

Look into the history of the Chiquita banana company. We already been there a while now.

echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 34d (1 reply)

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.dev · 2 pts · 33d

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.

moustachio@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d

The neat part about America is anyone can own militarized private security gear and weapons

hiawatha98@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 34d

LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 34d (1 reply)

$1.3 million

So like a pallet of ram and a pallet of gpus. Got it.

pdxfed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 33d

Definitely a Dr. Evil headline. $1.3m? What is this 1992?

nullspace@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 34d

Free market at work. Nothing to see here.

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 34d (1 reply)

Not all heroes wear capes.

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d

Actually I kind of hope they did

Hxrmit@thelemmy.club · 13 pts · 34d

GTA 6 mission leak

buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 34d

BAHAHAHAHAH 😂

dan69@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 34d (2 replies)

What is this the new Fast and the Furious movies??

Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 34d

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.lu · 2 pts · 34d

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.

eddanja@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 34d (1 reply)

Fast XI?

XLE@piefed.social · 1 pts · 34d

I knew he was behind Deepseek the whole time.

FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 34d

Very based and rob the ai tech bros Pilled!

darkangelazuarl@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 34d

Oh no.... Anyway

FalcoLombardi1@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 34d

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

Zephorah@discuss.online · 6 pts · 34d

This was a forgone conclusion.

xthexder@l.sw0.com · 6 pts · 34d (1 reply)

I might have to rewatch The Fast and the Furious. Now it's just AI hardware instead of VCRs or whatever it was in the movie.

mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 34d

Portable DVD players, yeah. This was literally the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline.

echodot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 34d (6 replies)

What a weird crime.

This is like stealing hospital equipment, sure it's high value, but who are you going to sell it to that isn't going to ask questions?

I can see corporate espionage making sense, one AI company stealing chips from another AI company but it doesn't seem like these guys had a buyer.

end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 34d (2 replies)

eyes homelab suspiciously

echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 33d (1 reply)

Yeah but even then, these are high-end server chips that require rack power supplies and industrial cooling. At most you'd want like two of them and even then you'd have to have a pretty beefy electrical connection, any more than that and the cops are going to be raiding your place thinking you're growing weed.

end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 33d

I'm hosting an illegal Minecraft server

mlg@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d (1 reply)

There's a black market for export to China but they'd need to already have contacts or involvement for that to work.

Although ot would be way funnier to see unobtainium enterprise gear end up on ebay lol.

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 33d

Stuff stolen in Alabama and Florida later found in Chicago... that's organized crime, so seems probable they'd have the contacts needed to fence the goods internationally.

But they probably could sell RAM and SSDs at a discount on eBay right now.

CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d

Maybe they are stealing them to delay/sabotage a data center. And increase freight insurance rates.

anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 34d

Get those RAMs

Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 34d

Oh come on thieves you can do better than that. There are a lot of data centres out there.

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d

Sad that they got their shit back.

elucubra@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 34d (3 replies)

However, they are also specialized machines that are often only bought by institutions and large companies, so thieves would likely have a hard time selling them on the black market.

I'm sure Russian, North Korean and buyers from some other countries would care about that.

wopalopa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d (2 replies)

its safe to assume those are the perpetrator. even north korea dont want to get left behind in the ai rat race i guess

echodot@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 34d (1 reply)

I feel like North Korea probably couldn't even produce the necessary power to run an AI.

end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d

they'll power it with 100,000 peeps on bicycles

Landless2029@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d

That RAM won't work in my gaming PC!

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 33d

It is going into cartel data centers!

Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 34d

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RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 34d

Smart.

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 33d

I hooe they take all the rest too.

not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 33d

good on them

green_goglin@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 34d

lol

JustDorky@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 34d

I'm interested...

roserose56@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 34d

Not the same, but quite close lol. I was ahead of my time many months ago when I made it.
https://lemmy.zip/post/67122146?scrollToComments=true

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 34d

So... the PayDay devs have ... basically admitted PayDay 3 was a mistake... and are going back to PayDay 2...

I may have an idea for some new heist content.

snoons@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 34d

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