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TechCrunch GitHub will allow enterprise cloud customers to store data in the EU GitHub will soon allow cloud customers to store their code data in the European Union (EU), part of a growing push in the technology realm to meet regulatory requirements and customer expectations around data protection — particularly where sensitive information might be at play, such as in the public sector or finance and health care industries. Starting from October 29, GitHub says that all enterprise cloud customers will be able to select an EU region to store all their code, though the company didn't specify which region(s) it will use or whether customers will be able to choose. GitHub's parent Microsoft has well over a dozen Azure cloud regions across the bloc.

Yahoo Life FDA just greenlighted an at-home flu vaccine. What the approval of a self-administered spray means for you. FluMist has been sold at pharmacies for years, but now it will be available to use at home as early as next year.

Crypto scammers hack OpenAI's press account on X OpenAI's official press account on X appears to have been compromised by the same cryptocurrency scammers who compromised the accounts of company leadership in previous months. Late Monday afternoon, OpenAI Newsroom, an account OpenAI recently created to spotlight product- and policy-related announcements, posted about a supposedly new OpenAI-branded blockchain token, "$OPENAI." "We're very happy to announce $OPEANAI [sic]: the gap between Al and blockchain technology," the post read.

Venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs From Keith Rabois to Ethan Kurzweil, a lot of VCs have switched firms or spun out of storied VC institutions to launch their own funds this year. In some instances, there may be a "key man" on a firm's fund, meaning that if they leave, the fund's LPs have the right to pull their capital out if they choose. James da Costa announced on September 17 that he was joining Andreessen Horowitz as a partner focused on B2B software and financial services.

X will soon make your public posts visible to accounts you've blocked X will soon change the functionality behind its block button so that if you block an account, they will still be able to see your public posts, according to changes to X's website spotted by independent app researcher Nima Owji. Elon Musk confirmed these changes on Monday, noting that blocked accounts will still not be able to engage with users who have blocked them, but they will soon be able to see their posts. "The block function will block that account from engaging with, but not block seeing, [a] public post," said Musk in a tweet on Monday.

Yahoo News Trump attempted assassination suspect wrote letter outlining his plan to kill former president, prosecutors say Ryan Routh, who authorities say hid in the trees with a rifle at the former president's golf club in Florida, previously wrote a letter saying "this was an assassination attempt," federal prosecutors revealed Monday as a judge ordered he be held without bond.

Ephos wants to shatter the market for AI and quantum chips with a new design based on glass A theoretical physicist believes he has made a breakthrough in photonics research that will enable us to have faster and better processors — a major need in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and other tech with heavy workloads. Now, his startup has received early backing from NATO, the European government, and other key investors to produce those chips. Ephos has raised $8.5 million in seed funding that it will use to build out and operate a new R&D and manufacturing facility near Milan focused on glass-based quantum photonics.

First TikTok, now smart cars: How Biden's new proposed ban will affect US automakers The White House issued a long-anticipated proposal Monday that would ban Chinese smart cars because internet-connected vehicles pose a national security risk. The proposal, made amid an escalating trade war, could affect U.S. automakers and suppliers that rely on certain hardware to enable connected vehicle systems. "This is both strategic political theater designed to head off an issue before it fully metastasizes, and it's also likely to have an impact on companies operating today," Avery Ash, senior vice president of government relations at SAFE, a national security focused think tank, told TechCrunch.