{
  "id": 771112,
  "title": "Cargo thieves are staging car crashes to steal AI data center hardware",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/cargo-thieves-are-staging-car-crashes-to-steal-ai-data-center-hardware",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-13T13:01:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechSpot",
    "slug": "techspot",
    "url": "https://www.techspot.com/news/113463-cargo-thieves-staging-car-crashes-steal-ai-data.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The shipments were moving from Silicon Valley to Southern California, according to Gerardo Pachuca, a freight security consultant and former Los Angeles sheriff's detective. Each truck was being followed by a private escort vehicle. In one case, another driver rear-ended the escort car and fled. In the other, a vehicle... Read Entire Article",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Tom's Hardware",
        "title": "Cargo thieves ram security escorts to hijack AI hardware shipments in California — brazen thieves employ PIT maneuver, rear-ending tactics to secure goods for the black market",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/cargo-thieves-ram-security-escorts-to-hijack-ai-hardware-shipments-in",
        "published": "2026-08-14T14:13:41.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}