The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-9491, allowed cybercriminals to hide malicious commands from users inspecting files through Windows' standard interface.

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Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation are raising the alarm over the deadly impacts of international funding cuts in global health. Slashed budgets are projected to reverse decades of progress, causing the number of children dying before their fifth birthday to rise for the first time this century. An estimated 4.8 million children are expected to die this year, an increase of 200,000 deaths compared to last year.

“That is something that we hope never to report on, but it is a sad fact. And there are many causes, but clearly one of the key causes has been significant cuts in international development assistance from a number of high-income countries,” said Mark Suzman, CEO of the Gates Foundation, in a briefing with media this week.

Suzman specifically called out the U.S., the United Kingdom, France and Germany for “making significant cuts” to their support. Internationally, funding plunged 26.9% below last year’s levels, according to the philanthropy.

The Gates Foundation today released its annual Goalkeepers Report, which tracks progress on measures including poverty, hunger, access to clean water and energy, environmental benchmarks and other metrics.

The Seattle-based foundation worked with the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation to model the effects of reduced assistance. The researchers found that if the cuts to aid persist or worsen, an additional 12 million to 16 million children could die over the next 20 years.

While offering dire projections, the document aims to be a call to action for governments and philanthropists large and small.

“This report is a roadmap to progress,” Gates writes, “where smart spending meets innovation at scale.”

The billionaire Microsoft co-founder calls out some specific areas that could yield the most benefit, including primary healthcare, routine immunizations, the development of improved vaccines and new uses of data.

Modeling in the report predicts that by 2045, better vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and pneumonia could save 3.4 million children, while new malaria tools could save an additional 5.7 million kids. Shots of lenacapavir could successfully prevent and treat HIV.

The foundation calls attention to the life-saving benefits of vaccinations as the U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to undercut public support of vaccines.

With the backdrop of reduced federal funding for global humanitarian causes and backpedaling on vaccinations, Gates earlier this year announced plans to give away $200 billion — including nearly all of his wealth — over the next two decades through the Gates Foundation.

The Seattle-based organization, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, will sunset its operations on Dec. 31, 2045. The philanthropy is the world’s largest and has already disbursed $100 billion since its founding.

“If we do more with less now — and get back to a world where there’s more resources to devote to children’s health — then in 20 years, we’ll be able to tell a different kind of story,” Gates writes in the report. “The story of how we helped more kids survive childbirth, and childhood.”

We’re excited to announce the release of Dev Proxy v2.0. Following semantic versioning (SemVer), we’re bumping the major version due to breaking changes in this release. While these changes are small, they improve Dev Proxy’s accuracy and behavior – and we want you to be aware of them.

This release also brings .NET 10 support, enhanced AI telemetry capabilities, and important fixes that make your API simulations more reliable.

In this version:

• Breaking changes in date formatting and telemetry behavior
• .NET 10 support
• Improved AI telemetry with cached tokens tracking
• Bug fixes and improvements

Breaking changes

We’ve made small but important changes that could affect your existing workflows:

Culture-invariant date formatting in Graph mocks

Previously, GraphMockResponsePlugin formatted dates using your system’s culture settings (e.g., 13/11/2025 14:30:00 on French systems vs. 11/13/2025 2:30 PM on US systems). This was a bug – Dev Proxy wasn’t accurately emulating how Microsoft Graph actually works. Graph always returns dates in standardized formats, regardless of where it’s running.

What changed:

All mocked Graph responses now use consistent, culture-invariant formats that align with how Microsoft Graph actually behaves:

• HTTP Date headers use RFC 1123 format: Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:16:59 GMT (per RFC 7231)
• InnerError.Date properties use ISO 8601 format: 2025-11-16T11:16:59

Impact: If you parse dates from mocked responses, you may need to update your code to handle these standardized formats. The upside? Dev Proxy now accurately emulates Microsoft Graph’s real behavior, giving you consistent responses across all environments – just like the actual Graph API does.

Smarter telemetry recording behavior

We’ve improved how the OpenAITelemetryPlugin and OpenAIUsageDebuggingPlugin handle their outputs, making them more consistent with other Dev Proxy recording plugins.

What changed:

• OpenAITelemetryPlugin now only includes requests captured while recording is active in its generated report – aligning with how other recording plugins work
• OpenAIUsageDebuggingPlugin now only creates CSV files when Dev Proxy intercepts relevant OpenAI requests
• Running devproxy –version, or other sub-commands, no longer creates unnecessary output files

Impact: If your automation relies on these files always being created, you’ll need to check for their existence before processing them. This change keeps your workspace clean and ensures you only get reports with actual data.

.NET 10 support

Future-proof your development workflow with .NET 10. Dev Proxy now runs on the latest .NET runtime, giving you access to the newest performance improvements, security patches, and language features.

Upgrading to .NET 10 ensures Dev Proxy stays aligned with Microsoft’s latest development platform, providing you with a faster, more secure, and more capable API simulation tool.

Enhanced AI telemetry with cached tokens tracking

Understanding how your AI-powered applications use tokens is crucial for managing costs and optimizing performance. The OpenAITelemetryPlugin now tracks cached tokens alongside standard token usage, giving you complete visibility into your AI API consumption.

Why this matters:

When your app uses cached prompts, AI providers typically charge significantly less for those tokens. Without tracking cached tokens separately, you couldn’t accurately measure cost savings or optimize your caching strategy. Now you can see exactly how much you’re benefiting from prompt caching, helping you make data-driven decisions about your AI implementation.

Dev Proxy Toolkit

Dev Proxy Toolkit is an extension that makes it easier to work with Dev Proxy from within Visual Studio Code. Alongside the new release of Dev Proxy, we’ve also released a new version of the toolkit, v1.10.0. In this version, we’ve updated all JSON snippets to use v2.0.0 schemas.

Checkout out the changelog for more information on changes and bug fixes.

Why upgrade to v2.0?

While the breaking changes are small, they make Dev Proxy more accurate and reliable. Dev Proxy v2.0 ensures:

• Consistent behavior – Culture-invariant dates work the same everywhere
• Accurate cost tracking – Complete visibility into cached tokens
• Cleaner workflows – No more empty telemetry files cluttering your workspace
• Future-ready – .NET 10 support keeps you on the latest platform

Try it now

Download Dev Proxy v2.0 today and build better API-connected applications with confidence!

Thanks to Artem Azaraev and for contributing to this release.

Got feedback or ideas? Join us and be part of the conversation.

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