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A former employee of a billion-dollar lender faces decades in prison over the disappearance of thousands of dollars from an ailing septuagenarian’s bank account. According to the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island, former Santander Bank employee Carlos Bras drained over $125,000 starting in or about May of 2023 from the […] The post Bank Employee Hijacks 78-Year-Old Dementia Patient’s Account, Drains $125,000 via Checks, Debit Card Use and Wire Transfers: DOJ appeared first on The Daily Hodl.

The post These Navy Vets Are Betting Their Drone Software Maker Havoc Can Win Over The U.S. Military appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. On an overcast April day in the middle of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay, Paul Lwin looks like he’s playing a vintage video game. He huddles over a laptop on the deck of the spartan vessel he’s taking out on the water today. Tiny boat icons float across the screen; he draws a box around them, selects a few parameters, and clicks “Start Play.” Seconds later, a set of driverless boats in the bay a mile away begin gliding in parallel with the icons, which leave bright blue tracks on the screen in their wake. Lwin flashes an enormous grin. Each of those autonomous crafts is a “Rampage,” the 14-foot flagship boat of Lwin’s Providence-based company, Havoc, which outfits its vessels with technology that theoretically lets a single human control thousands at once. Lwin, 40, and his cofounder Joe Turner, 42, both Navy vets, aim to become the U.S. military’s