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Let this be a lesson: Don't reuse your passwords.

Let this be a lesson: Don't reuse your passwords.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard : A college student who stole $5M+ in cryptocurrency via SIM hijacking gets 10 years in prison and is the first person in the US to be sentenced for such a crime   —  A 20-year-old college student who was accused of stealing more than $5 million in cryptocurrency in a slew of SIM hijacking attacks …

Bloomberg : Sources: Attorneys General of CT, IL, MA, NY, NJ, and NC are investigating how Facebook has handled user data, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal   —  - Cambridge Analytica data breach triggered state probes  —  Facebook Inc. has become the target of at least three more state probes …

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Researcher finds “admin@kremlin.ru” backdoor accounts on 2,000+ exposed MongoDB databases that handle financial transactions of businesses operating in Russia   —  “Admin@kremlin.ru” account spotted on thousands of Russian-linked, internet-exposed MongoDB databases.

Matt Simon / Wired : How PlantVillage app uses AI to identify plant diseases and satellite data provided by the UN to monitor the growth of crops for small-scale farmers in Kenya   —  CLIMATE CHANGE IS the most horrific threat our species has ever known: No matter how powerful you are or how much money you have …

South China Morning Post : How a 14-year-old developer from Hong Kong built Timeless, an app that uses an AI and facial recognition to help Alzheimer's patients identify people in photos   —  For many teenagers, their lives typically might revolve around schoolwork and spending time with friends.  Not so for Emma Yang.

Jeffrey Westling / Techdirt : Today's fear mongering about AI-enabled “deep fakes” is similar to the end of truth panic that followed the Photoshop launch in the early nineties   —  In just a few short months, “deep fakes” are striking fear in technology experts and lawmakers.

Kiran Stacey / Financial Times : Cisco joins Apple in praising Europe's GDPR and calling for similar regulations in the US   —  Cisco has joined Apple in calling for a US version of the European General Data Protection regulation, underlining the divisions among big technology companies over how to tackle privacy concerns.

Simone Stolzoff / Quartz : Ahead of his fifth anniversary as CEO, a look at how Satya Nadella changed Microsoft's culture by using a Stanford professor's concept called “growth mindset”   —  It was March 27, 2014, and Satya Nadella was about to make his first public appearance as CEO of Microsoft.

James Vincent / The Verge : Head of Google Translate on gender-specific translations, tackling bias in training data, and why Translate turned nonsense messages into religious prophecies   —  An interview with Google's Macduff Hughes  —  You might remember a spate of news stories last year about Google Translate spitting …

Enlarge (credit: Jakub T. Jankiewicz / Flickr ) A cryptocurrency exchange in Canada has lost control of at least $137 million of its customers’ assets following the sudden death of its founder, who was the only person known to have access the the offline wallet that stored the digital coins. British Columbia-based QuadrigaCX is unable to access most or all of another $53 million because it’s tied up in disputes with third parties. The dramatic misstep was reported in a sworn affidavit that was obtained by CoinDesk . The affidavit was filed Thursday by Jennifer Robertson, widow of QuadrigaCX’s sole director and officer Gerry Cotten. Robertson testified that Cotten died of Crohn’s disease in India in December at the age of 30. Following standard security practices by many holders of cryptocurrency, QuadrigaCX stored the vast majority of its cryptocurrency holdings in a “cold wallet,” meaning a digital wallet that wasn’t connected to the Internet. The measure is designed to prevent hacks that regularly drain hot wallets of millions of dollars (Ars has reported on three such thefts here , here , and here .) Read 6 remaining paragraphs | Comments

Password managers are a convenient and secure way to remember all your passwords. Do you trust them to keep them safe?

Julia Reda : EU's copyright reform with “link tax” and “upload filters” suffers a setback as 11 member states vote against the proposal, making adoption in May less likely   —  Today, Council firmly rejected the negotiating mandate that was supposed to set out Member States' position ahead …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Facebook confirms it is testing LOL, a feed of funny videos and GIF-like clips pulled from News Feed posts by top meme Pages   —  How do you do fellow kids?  After Facebook Watch, Lasso, and IGTV failed to become hits with teens, the company has been quietly developing another youthful video product.