Technology

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[–] errer@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Rob GPUs from the rich, give GPUs to the poor

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Lol, rob gpus from the rich to sell gpus to the rich.

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[–] Mister_Hangman@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I love boosters two

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

They're not even useful to anyone else.

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[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 point 4 months ago

What’s the melt value tho?

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[–] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

We had hardware piracy back in the day, when there were CPUs you may have been able to unlock extra cores on.

Then the companies started lasering them off so that was no longer possible.

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[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

$1.3 million

A cat in a business suit, reading a newspaper at a table with a teacup in front of him, thinking to himself "I should hijack a delivery truck."

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 39 points 4 months ago

"Just installed 37,000 TB of DDR5 to my rig."

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[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

It was only 1.3mil in memory l... So by delivery truck did you mean 1 small FedEx blister pack?

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 60 points 4 months ago

Really disappointing to hear that the equipment was recovered.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 37 points 4 months 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...

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

Big truck for one stick of RAM

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

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

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[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 months ago (1 child)

$1.3 million

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

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

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

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

Free market at work. Nothing to see here.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Not all heroes wear capes.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Actually I kind of hope they did

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

BAHAHAHAHAH 😂

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 4 months 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.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 23 points 4 months ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] thousandyardstare@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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...

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[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months 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.

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[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

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

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[–] edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

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

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 4 months 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.

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[–] moustachio@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

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

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[–] Hxrmit@thelemmy.club 11 points 4 months ago

GTA 6 mission leak

[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

Very based and rob the ai tech bros Pilled!

[–] eddanja@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Fast XI?

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 point 4 months ago

I knew he was behind Deepseek the whole time.

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[–] FalcoLombardi1@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

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

[–] darkangelazuarl@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Oh no.... Anyway

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 6 points 4 months ago

This was a forgone conclusion.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

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 points 4 months ago

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

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Get those RAMs

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] wopalopa@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

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

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[–] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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

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[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

That RAM won't work in my gaming PC!

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Sad that they got their shit back.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

It is going into cartel data centers!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

eyes homelab suspiciously

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

I'm hosting an illegal Minecraft server

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

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.

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[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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