[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-stolen-470000-rtx-5090-haul-surfaces-on-brazilian-marketplace":10,"sections":49},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":38,"tags":39,"sources":44,"feedback":48,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":48,"total_tokens":48},12177,"stolen-470000-rtx-5090-haul-surfaces-on-brazilian-marketplace","Stolen $470,000 RTX 5090 Haul Surfaces on Brazilian Marketplace","A Zotac RTX 5090 listed for over $6,000 carried a serial number that matched the stolen cargo, and police have identified three airport employees.","A graphics card from a $470,000 RTX 5090 shipment stolen at a Brazilian airport has turned up for sale online, and police say they have identified three employees tied to the theft.\n\nA Brazilian TV news network appears to have spotted a Zotac Gaming RTX 5090 listed on the marketplace OLX for over $6,000. The seller posted clear photos of the card's serial number, which linked it to the missing cargo. Nothing identifies the seller, and the listing has since been taken down.\n\nPolice information reported by Brazilian media lays out how the cards disappeared. The shipment, imported from the United States and valued at nearly $500,000, arrived in Brazil on September 20. Police believe two outsourced forklift operators removed the two pallets from the warehouse on September 21, an act apparently recorded by CCTV. Police said the equipment went onto a truck and has not been seen since. A third employee, described as a \"checker\", is said to have released the merchandise from the system so it could pass electronic controls.\n\nThe target makes sense. The RTX 5090 is the best consumer gaming GPU on the market, but demand for AI computing has pushed it out of conventional retail. It now fetches upwards of $10,000 in the few marketplaces that carry it, nearly always through third-party sellers. A pallet of them is worth more than most cargo its size.\n\nThe listing also shows the trouble with stealing a product this scarce. Each card carries a serial number, and a buyer paying thousands of dollars expects proof the card is genuine. The photo that reassures a buyer is the same one that lets investigators match it to a manifest. The $6,000 asking price, well below the $10,000-plus seen elsewhere, suggests the seller wanted a quick sale, though the source does not say why.\n\nGuarulhos International Airport confirmed in a statement that \"The investigation of the facts is the responsibility of the competent authorities to clarify the circumstances of what happened.\"","[\"nvidia\",\"rtx-5090\",\"gpu-theft\",\"brazil\"]","2026-10-22T16:18:47.000Z","2026-10-22T17:29:56.368Z","2026-10-22T17:29:58.012Z","published",null,[24,30,34],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Remove the closing paragraph that flags an unresolved date discrepancy (September 21 removal vs. September 24-25 customs dates) and state one coherent timeline without meta-commentary, include a proper closing line, fix the backwards logic that a card is 'traceable only if the seller bothers to hide the label', and cut unsupported claims such as 'the electronic controls worked as designed' and the speculation about a seller in a hurry.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"Cut the unsupported claim that 'two pallets of them are worth far more than most air cargo', and soften or remove the assertion that the serial number is 'the only link... made public so far', since the source supports neither; the closing line should rest on sourced facts instead.",{"id":35,"reviewer":26,"round":36,"reason":37,"status":29},"editor-r3",3,"Remove the closing paragraph that flags the date discrepancy (a meta-commentary failure) and rewrite the timeline so it doesn't say the pallets vanished after the Sept 25 release while also saying police put the removal on Sept 21; attribute the dates to police, drop the unsupported 'Nobody had to break in' inference, and end on a sourced closing line.","hardware",[40,41,42,43],"nvidia","rtx-5090","gpu-theft","brazil",[45],{"name":46,"url":47},"Tom's Hardware","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.tomshardware.com\u002Fpc-components\u002Fgpus\u002Fgpus-from-nvidia-rtx-5090-stolen-usd470-000-shipment-from-brazil-airport-appear-for-sale-online-identified-by-serial-numbers-three-employees-identified-by-police-helped-steal-equipment",0,{"sections":50},[51,56,61,66,71,75,80,85,90,95,100,105,110,115],{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"AI","ai",7064,"2026-10-22T18:00:00.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Security","security",1052,"2026-10-22T15:11:26.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Policy","policy",571,"2026-10-22T16:00:29.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Deals","deals",558,"2026-10-22T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":38,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Hardware",288,"2026-10-22T17:25:00.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":79},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",282,"2026-10-22T17:42:52.000Z",{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Science","science",215,"2026-10-22T16:37:00.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":88,"latest_published_at":89},"Startups","startups",142,"2026-10-22T16:05:08.000Z",{"name":91,"slug":92,"count":93,"latest_published_at":94},"Software","software",140,"2026-10-22T18:01:29.000Z",{"name":96,"slug":97,"count":98,"latest_published_at":99},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",122,"2026-10-21T16:00:00.000Z",{"name":101,"slug":102,"count":103,"latest_published_at":104},"General","general",96,"2026-10-22T16:00:00.000Z",{"name":106,"slug":107,"count":108,"latest_published_at":109},"Gaming","gaming",86,"2026-10-22T13:17:59.000Z",{"name":111,"slug":112,"count":113,"latest_published_at":114},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":116,"slug":117,"count":118,"latest_published_at":119},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]