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The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub is a small office in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracks and counters foreign disinformation campaigns.  In shutting R/FIMI, the department’s controversial acting undersecretary, Darren Beattie, is delivering a major win to conservative critics who have alleged that it censors conservative voices. Created […]

Apr 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have detailed four different vulnerabilities in a core component of the Windows task scheduling service that could be exploited by local attackers to achieve privilege escalation and erase logs to cover up evidence of malicious activities. The issues have been uncovered in a binary named “schtasks.exe,” […]

Written by Alex Pritchard In app development, reliability is non-negotiable. Getting it right is a must - an app that doesn’t perform flawlessly, every time, is a risk. Automated testing is the secret weapon we rely on to ensure every app functions as expected. It helps us catch issues early, maintain stability, and move faster with confidence.In […]

Whether it’s building, testing, or deploying code, automating manual processes is key to improving developer experience and achieving a successful DevOps strategy. On GitHub, you can use GitHub Actions to not only implement your CI/CD pipeline, but also automate other processes both on and off GitHub. When you are adopting GitHub Actions on GitHub Enterprise […]

Our April release is all about making knowledge work for you—wherever you are. With actionable insights delivered straight to your preferred platforms, more control over user organization, and subtle UX nudges that encourage meaningful engagement, this update is built to keep your teams informed, aligned, and actively contributing. Let’s dig into what’s new. Microsoft Teams […]

Contents This article is one of two Distill publications about graph neural networks. Take a look at A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks for a companion view on many things graph and neural network related. Many systems and interactions – social networks, molecules, organizations, citations, physical models, transactions – can be represented quite naturally […]

GPT-4.1: Three new million token input models from OpenAI, including their cheapest model yet 14th April 2025 OpenAI introduced three new models this morning: GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano. These are API-only models right now, not available through the ChatGPT interface (though you can try them out in OpenAI’s API playground). All three models […]

The wife of data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang, who was fired from his tenured job at Indiana University, Bloomington (IU) the same day the couple’s houses were searched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last month, said on Monday that she believes her family has been unfairly targeted by the US government and is the […]

Samsung has, by all accounts, halted the rollout of its long-awaited One UI 7 update following the discovery of a bug that prevented some Galaxy S24 owners from unlocking their phones. The pause was first reported by leaker and tipster Ice Universe, who said that a “serious bug” had been found. While the complaints seem […]

According to Dealroom data cited by the Financial Times, British start-ups raised just £16.2 billion last year, far less than the more than £65 billion raised by their counterparts in Silicon Valley during the same period. In fact, the U.S. appears to be pulling further ahead each year. In 2024, 57% of global venture capital […]