The Heist Economy: Thieves Stole an NVIDIA Truck Full of Sand 🎙️ (NX Tech Tips #12)

Monday, September 28, 2026 — Max breaks down the funniest failure in hardware security history, plus five more verified tech stories from around the web.

1. Thieves stole an NVIDIA-branded trailer. It was full of sand. 🏖️

In Fremont, California, thieves swiped two NVIDIA-branded trailers (belonging to autonomous-trucking startup PlusAI) expecting a payday in AI GPUs. Inside: 20 tons of ballast sand — 40,000 pounds of it. Police recovered the trailers, thieves recovered disappointment. The finest anti-theft technology ever built is a cargo hold full of nothing. Sources: VideoCardz, Tom's Hardware, WIRED, HotHardware

2. Nintendo invoiced a trash-talker for $4.5 million ⚖️

A Seattle federal court entered a $4.5 million default judgment against a Reddit piracy moderator who sold pirated Switch games — and publicly mocked Nintendo. He was identified through a hardware repair record. The Mushroom Kingdom doesn't do clapbacks. It does invoices. Sources: HotHardware, Stevivor, r/Games

3. Dyson CameraJet: your toothbrush has a camera now 🦷

Dyson's CameraJet toothbrush has a 100k-pixel macro camera analyzing 28 images per second (Gap Optical Targeting™), firing precision floss jets at gaps between teeth. Trained on 470,000 dental images. Camera is only active during live-viewing or auto-jetting — no images recorded or stored. $499, launched Sept 1. Sources: PRNewswire/Dyson, Dezeen, dyson.com

4. WiCi One: an external GPU that connects over Wi-Fi 7 📡

The WiCi One wireless eGPU connects your graphics card to your PC over Wi-Fi 7 (4×4 MIMO, 320 MHz, ~11.5 Gbps), sending only key GPU requests across the air. RTX 5060 Ti base model, RTX 5090 model planned. Twenty years unwiring everything — and the GPU industry said "what if the cable, but Wi-Fi?" Sources: TechPowerUp, TechSpot, VideoCardz, TweakTown, Notebookcheck

5. MacSync malware checks your calendar 📅

A new MacSync variant hides malicious commands inside public iCloud calendar events (spotted by Kaspersky) targeting crypto users and developers. The 3 AM calendar invite is the new ransom note. Tip: decline invites from strangers and audit your public-calendar auto-add settings. Sources: BleepingComputer, Help Net Security

6. A robot hand taught itself to walk 🤖

ETH Zurich's Soft Robotics Lab took an off-the-shelf WUJI robotic hand and trained it to crawl on its own fingers across 14 surfaces ("loco-manipulation"), type, and play retro PC games — trained with NVIDIA sim. Thing from the Addams Family got an engineering degree. Sources: HotHardware, Yahoo Tech, gagadget

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