Description The Uvalde School District in San Antonio, Texas, was forced to shut down the week of September 15, 2025, due to a ransomware attack. The attack was detected over the prior weekend on September 13, which led to school leadership cancelling classes for Monday morning. In addition to the school district’s website being taken offline,| HALOCK
Description A major cybersecurity supply-chain incident involving the Atlanta-based company, Salesloft, was recently uncovered by Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, an attack that could have far-reaching consequences. Salesloft is the creator of a popular AI-powered sales engagement platform used by B2B sales teams. The attack can be traced to March of 2025, when attackers gained access| HALOCK
Overview A developer of core JavaScript libraries distributed through NPM was hacked after falling for a phishing email. The email used a common trick: an urgent warning that the recipient’s account would be locked unless they updated their two-factor authentication using a link that looked legitimate. A low-skill malicious actor then added crypto-stealing code to those libraries.| HALOCK
The Olympus PEN E-P7 was the first Micro Four Thirds camera from OM Digital Solutions; find out how it performs in our review.| Amateur Photographer
Early last month I went on a 4-week trip to the US visiting NYC, San Diego, and Boston. Unlike my usual month-long trips back home where I can leave my pens and inks in one place throughout my stay, it was a bit of a hassle maintaining my daily writing routine and weekly ink swaps […]| UK FOUNTAIN PENS
Summary The Aurora Optima is a charming and well-functioning pen. I find the Auroloide material to be quite cheerful in a muted sort of way and the nib is a pleasant writer especially if you prefer a more pencil-like experience with more feedback. The piston mechanism is smooth and reliable, though not the most straightforward […]| UK FOUNTAIN PENS
Summary: The Onoto Excel is a well-built and excellent writer. Compared to the slightly-larger Pilot Custom 74, this pen is a step up in both price and quality. The sterling silver trims, tougher body, and a lovely stubbish broad nib appealed to me despite the steep price. If you like the conservative design of the […]| UK FOUNTAIN PENS
I was giving a public talk at a Life Sciences museum in Göttingen, Germany earlier this year. Over a hundred people turned up to hear about my journey with Visual Thinkery – A picture says a thousand words. People were encouraged to bring pen and paper and we had plenty on hand to give out […] The post Permission Slip appeared first on Open Visual Thinkery.| Open Visual Thinkery
The parts for the Unicorn circuit board arrived! The circuit boards themselves sill aren't here, of course (cheap shipping from China is cheap and slow). Anyway, I went through the parts I received and, lo and behold, I got one wrong. Thankfully, it was only the switch—I had ordered a surface-mount version instead of a through-hole version. The good news is I can still use the switch. I have corrected the part number and price in the part list spreadsheet. On a slightly related subject, I f...| Cyrozap's Tech Projects
Ok, so I'm a few days late with ordering the parts. No big deal, right? Anyway, I got them ordered today and it ended up costing around $16 (including shipping, from Digi-key). That parts cost reflects a full set of RoHS-compliant and lead-free parts, so it is possible to get the parts cheaper. Tentative BOM after the break. I say that this BOM is "tentative" because I may have ordered some wrong parts.| Cyrozap's Tech Projects
I just ordered 10 of the Minimalist Unicorn Controller Boards that I designed. Total cost was around $34 from SeeedStudio, so that's about $3.40 per board. If you want, I can send you one for the cost of the board + shipping. I really only want one for my Unicorn (still haven't used it) so I kinda want to offset that cost a bit. I'll be ordering the components tomorrow so I'll let you know what the electronic bits cost then. Sorry about this post's grammar—it's late but I really wanted to g...| Cyrozap's Tech Projects
