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Stolen EVGA 30XX GPUs Finally Tracked Down in Vietnam!
You may recall that last October, a truck full of EVGA Nvidia 30XX graphics cards were stolen in something that can only be called an audacious heist. With the vehicle en-route from San Francisco to Southern California, while details of the theft are still somewhat vague, the bottom line is…
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Man Shot After Attempting to Privately Sell His PS5
With Christmas fast approaching, it’s not surprising to see that attempts to sell, or more accurately resell, PS5 consoles online have gotten a little more enthusiastic over the last couple of weeks. For one such man, however, the deal nearly cost him his life as following a Twitter post by…
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A Truck Full of EVGA Graphics Cards Was Stolen!
Despite some signs that things might have been getting better over the Summer, graphics cards continue to remain both in exceptionally short supply, and, generally speaking, priced significantly higher than any of their official MSRPs. – With such a high value currently placed upon them, however, it’s not exactly surprising…
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Internet Cafe Reports $7,000 Graphics Card Heist
While internet/gaming cafes didn’t overly catch on here in the West, they remain an exceptionally popular business in a lot of Asian countries. In something that might seemingly boil down to the current lack of graphics cards, however, it seems that one such location in China was recently the target…
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MSI Gets $340,000 Worth of Nvidia 3090’s Stolen!
It’s certainly been a year of highs and lows for MSI, but in something that shouldn’t come as any surprise, it’s not exactly been a secret that the recently released Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 has been in exceptionally high demand with stock levels being woefully below the (apparent) consumer demand.…
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Amazon Drivers Accused of Stealing PS5 Deliveries
With the PS5 being officially released earlier this week, this new next-gen console clearly represents one of the most anticipated deliveries for many highly-anxious gamers. It seems, however, that many Amazon customers have taken to social media to voice more than a few worrying complaints. – Namely, that their consoles…
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Binance Exchange Reports $41m Bitcoin Hack Heist
Bitcoin Exchange Reports $41m Hack Heist While the cryptocurrency craze has died down quite significantly from its 2017 boom, there are still many people engaged in both the mining and trading of various coins. As such, while business may not be as strong as it once was, exchange websites such…
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Amazon Use Dummy Parcels And GPS To Catch Thieves
Dummy Parcels Used To Catch Thieves Amazon delivery services do have the rather unfortunate practice of sometimes leaving a parcel on your doorstep. I know this for a fact as it regularly happens to me when I get a delivery. Admittedly, without a mailbox designed to fit the parcel, sometimes…
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Tesla Theft Shows Crooks Have More Trouble With The Plug
How Do You Unplug It?… Many people dream that, someday, they’ll look out their front window and see a Model S Tesla on the driveway. That is perhaps certainly applicable to those who are on the waiting list having paid their deposit months ago. Tesla has, in a very short…
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FBI Charges Gamer With Stealing Fifa Currency From EA
FBI Charges Gamer With Stealing Fifa Currency From EA It can be a quite difficult affair to get a decent team in FIFA. Costly too presuming you don’t want to go through the monotonous grind of earning coins. It seems, however, that one user decided to take it upon himself…
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Ex-Apple Employee Stole Car Data And Tried To Flee To China
Apple Employee Stole Car Data And Tried To Flee To China In the world of major tech companies, there is a definite strong ethos for the protection of company data. You probably see this even at the level where you work. There is data that if you attempt to share…
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600 Bitcoin Mining Machines Stolen In Raid
Bitcoin Miners Stolen Bitcoin mining has become a major business in the last year. For some, even an industry with many owning multiple mining machines specifically designed for one sole purpose, to make money mining cryptocurrency. As part of this, in what represents one of the biggest physical thefts, over…
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Stolen Friday The 13th DLC Codes Sold On eBay
Friday the 13th As a game, I didn’t like Friday the 13th, which is surprising because I am a massive fan of Dead by Daylight. Despite this, however, F13 has found itself a somewhat loyal fanbase and even has a significant amount of DLC content. It would seem, however, that…
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Car Theft Is Up 30% As Crooks Are Beating New Security Technologies
Car Theft on the Rise Over the last 30 years, car security has increased quite significantly. Gone are the days of crook locks (ask your grandmother) or those clumsy handbrake/gear shift locks. Of the latter, incidentally, I had one of those on an old Golf I used to own which…
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Malware Steals Data from Computer’s Blinking LEDs
Hey, PC owners, let’s get real. You want all LEDs, all the time. Razer, Alphacool, Cooler Master, Thermaltake: they all know it. LEDs on your keyboard, in your PSU, even in your Razer-branded mug. What could possibly be the downside in turning your desktop setup into a glorified Christmas tree?…
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