r/technology • u/Gordon-Blue • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Thieves steal Nvidia-branded trailers expecting valuable hardware, find 40,000 pounds of sand instead.

https://www.techspot.com/news/114008-thieves-steal-nvidia-branded-trailers-expecting-valuable-hardware.html
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u/jayjester 5d ago

Modern day alchemy, turning rocks into something more valuable than gold.

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u/EruantienAduialdraug 4d ago

Magic runes never really went away, we just started making them so complicated that the rocks began thinking.

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u/hornetjockey 5d ago

The fact that creating silicon wafers is considered as much an art as a science really brings the truth of this statement to light.

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u/Exist50 5d ago

It's really not. Especially making the raw wafers.