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Sunday, August 30, 2026 (UTC)Vol. 1 · No. 242
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The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Flash floods kill at least 95 in northern Nepal and a magnitude 5.1 earthquake hits Colombia while FAA sends eight airport grants totaling roughly $79.7M.

Earthquake Relief and Airport Grants · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by @cf/bytedance/stable-diffusion-xl-lightning on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-08-30 00:02Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A somber scene unfolds with people evacuating a flooded town in the background, as a plane takes off from a rebuilt airport terminal in the distance, with a Colombian cityscape at dusk, and a group of concerned individuals in the foreground, including a woman clutching a suitcase and a man looking up at the plane.

Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received

Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A somber scene unfolds with people evacuating a flooded town in the background, as a plane takes off from a rebuilt airport terminal in the distance, with a Colombian cityscape at dusk, and a group of concerned individuals in the foreground, including a woman clutching a suitcase and a man looking up at the plane. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. Any surface that would carry writing is left blank.

The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)

cd8b30c0401ab87b4a3c1a8171d0416b451c7b5b35107d22d38344a80e6300cb
tech
Cyber attack targets print software worldwide AI illustrationhow this picture was made

PaperCut warns of zero-day exploit hitting its NG and MF print software

The company says bad actors are actively targeting all versions of both products, with no version confirmed safe.

PaperCut Software warned users on Friday that a zero-day vulnerability in its NG and MF print management products is being actively exploited in the wild.

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