This Week in Tech (Week Ending Oct 6, 2023)

TL;DR - 😌 Congress avoids a govt shutdown; 🏆Nobel prizes, and 🤝 M&A

Hey folks, 

Your week’s news below!

TL;DR: 

• The worst procrastinators: Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown on Saturday as the House approved a stopgap plan to keep the federal government open until mid-November. (but also, just until November? 🤨) (link)

• 🏆 Nobel Prizes were doled out this week to an Iranian activist and to the scientists who he…