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Following reports over the weekend that an Nvidia RTX 5090 shipment worth $470,000 was stolen from a Brazilian airport, a contraband graphics card linked to the shipment has shown up for sale online. Brazilian media also reports that the police and airport authorities have identified three employees thought to have been involved in the heist, according to GMC. (Machine translated)
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"The haul is thought to be worth nearly half a million dollars."
And that's just for 3 video cards!
I kid, I kid. It was 2 pallets.
When things go missing at banks, stores, airports, etc... The first people the police look at are the employees. Beyond stupid.
Might've been smarter to put them into a server and rent out the compute capacity. At least for some time. But who knows, with all the data collection in modern software something may have picked up the serial numbers anyway.
Should Nvidia do a one-time activation for video cards? The card only starts up in a low resolution until a code is entered that is supplied by Nvidia. Once activation is successful it is never needed again.
Then stolen 5090s will be seen that can only do 270p resolution?
Lets see how well DLSS works to upscale that to 4k! 😆😉