Disable “Blogroll” or “WordPress Dashboard News” section in WordPress v.4.1?

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Is there a way to disable Blogroll or WordPress Dashboard News section in WordPress v.4.1?

EDIT:
Actually by saying disable, i mean completely remove and not just hide.
I apologize for my the late response.

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If you want to remove metaboxes from the dashboard page you can add this to functions.php

function remove_dashboard_widgets () {

  remove_meta_box('dashboard_quick_press','dashboard','side'); //Quick Press widget
  remove_meta_box('dashboard_recent_drafts','dashboard','side'); //Recent Drafts
  remove_meta_box('dashboard_primary','dashboard','side'); //WordPress.com Blog
  remove_meta_box('dashboard_secondary','dashboard','side'); //Other WordPress News
  remove_meta_box('dashboard_incoming_links','dashboard','normal'); //Incoming Links
  remove_meta_box('dashboard_plugins','dashboard','normal'); //Plugins
  remove_meta_box('dashboard_right_now','dashboard', 'normal'); //Right Now
  remove_meta_box('rg_forms_dashboard','dashboard','normal'); //Gravity Forms
  remove_meta_box('dashboard_recent_comments','dashboard','normal'); //Recent Comments
  remove_meta_box('icl_dashboard_widget','dashboard','normal'); //Multi Language Plugin
  remove_meta_box('dashboard_activity','dashboard', 'normal'); //Activity
  remove_action('welcome_panel','wp_welcome_panel');

}

add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_dashboard_widgets');

Just comment out the ones you want to keep. The first value passed is the metabox ID, so you could also remove other metaboxes that are added by plugins. Just inspect the metabox with your browser and grab the metabox ID.

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