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[–] 136 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Old and busted: Software piracy

New hotness: Hardware piracy

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 75 points 1 month ago* (2 children)
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    Really disappointing to hear that the equipment was recovered.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 month 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...

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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago

    Big truck for one stick of RAM

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  • [–] 31 points 1 month ago

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

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago (3 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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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 4 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 3 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 2 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago
    [–] 22 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    $1.3 million

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

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    [–] 21 points 1 month ago

    Free market at work. Nothing to see here.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Not all heroes wear capes.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    GTA 6 mission leak

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    BAHAHAHAHAH 😂

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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  • Very based and rob the ai tech bros Pilled!

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)
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    [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Oh no.... Anyway

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month 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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    This was a forgone conclusion.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 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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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Get those RAMs

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    That RAM won't work in my gaming PC!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Sad that they got their shit back.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month 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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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago

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

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  • [+] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
    [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    It is going into cartel data centers!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I hooe they take all the rest too.

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