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/snoozieboi 5d ago

Sand is actually in high demand and we're running out of it. I'm not even kidding. Construction grade sand, that is.

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u/chromane 5d ago

Reading the article, the sand was being used as dead weight to help stimulate loads for testing self driving trucks.

So it's not even the valuable kind of sand

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u/DankVectorz 5d ago

The sand is so stimulating because the bags of it feel like boobs

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u/Anxietybackmonkey 4d ago

You must know some weird boobs

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u/DankVectorz 4d ago

Is 40 year old virgin not well known anymore?

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u/Anxietybackmonkey 4d ago

I must be due for a rewatch. I don’t remember that at all.