• Europe looking to regulate everything.  (TechDirt)
  
  Doesn't matter if it's mathematically impossible to comply.  All regulations matter.
  
  
• CES allows sex robots, bans actual women.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  
• The US Senate is unimpressed with Facebook's cryptocurrency plans unless it isn't.  (WCCFTech)
  
  On the one hand, I have done a deep dive through the Libra documentation and code for my day job, and it is a competent implementation that avoids some of the pitfalls that plague other blockchains.
  
  On the other hand, Facebook
  
  
• Scientists unclear on the concept of mountain.  (Princeton University)
  
  
• In another episode of the long running story of government regulations crushing small businesses the FBI has has released decryption keys for the GandCrap ransomware.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Where will it end.  Where will it end?!
  
  
• This week it's Python's turn with three packages found to contain backdoor code and removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI).  (ZDNet)
  
  They were found during a complete scan of PyPI, not by accident.
  
  
• Lindsay Shepherd got banned from Twitter for correctly identifying someone's gender.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  If the truth is outlawed, only outlaws something something.
  
  
• Microsoft are shutting down online game services for Windows ME.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  Um.  Okay.

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