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It Sure Looks Like the Department of Education Is Promoting a Right-Wing ‘Harry Potter’ Meme

At first glance, the Department of Education’s October 27 X post seems like generic Harry Potter-esque slop.

It shows a trio of students walking toward a sprawling Hogwarts-like castle while a young girl with long, flowing white-blonde hair watches them from the foreground, accompanied with the text “There’s Magic in Learning!” and “Make Education Great Again.”

But for a hyper-online, highly radicalized subset of the internet, the state was not just communicating a vague policy stance—it appeared to be adopting the deeply-coded visual language of the “Malfoid.”

The reaction online was immediate. On X, Bulwark reporter Will Sommer quickly diagnosed the situation, posting that the Department of Education was “embracing the ‘malfoid’ meme, a right-wing fan fiction idea about a female Draco Malfoy who Harry Potter could fall in love with.” Others responded with Malfoid art and AI-generated clips, including some featuring President Donald Trump.

The Malfoid concept did...

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Barracuda Appoints Dan Fletcher as Chief Financial Officer

Barracuda Networks, Inc., the cyber resilience platform leader making security easy for all size business, today announced the appointment of Dan Fletcher as Chief Financial Officer. Fletcher brings extensive experience as a finance leader, operating executive, and investor, with a proven track record of scaling software companies and creating long-term

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HubSpot AEO review 2026

HubSpot AEO gives small marketing teams a clear way to check AI answers, inspect their sources, and plan content work. The suggested prompts and competitors need a careful edit, though, and the $50 plan starts with just 25 prompts daily. Its strongest value is for existing Marketing Hub customers who

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The AI Act's longer runway is an opportunity to build governance that lasts

Transparency duties under Article 50 have begun to apply, even as the EU AI Omnibus implementation for many high-risk systems has moved to December 2027 and, for certain AI-enabled products, to August 2028. For organizations building and deploying AI in Europe, the message is clear: regulators extended the timeline on

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Drupal Commerce Core Vulnerability Exploited Against Online Stores

Drupal is urging online store owners to patch a highly critical access bypass vulnerability in the Commerce Core module, warning that it is being exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-118539, the issue affects a contributed module that adds e-commerce features to Drupal websites, including a shopping cart and checkout

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