Back issue · Monday, September 14, 2026 · as it ran
Election Assistance Commission awards millions to Wisconsin and Minnesota while Apple releases iPhone Duo and Anthropic reports Russian actors used its chatbot.
Election Security and Tech Advances · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
Painted byseedream-v5-proon api.venice.ai, 2026-09-14 00:06Z. Scene directed by@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A cityscape at dusk with people walking near a polling station, a woman holding an iPhone Duo, and a man in the background looking up at a drone swarm flying over a river with a moderate streamflow, under a sky with a warm orange glow.
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 cityscape at dusk with people walking near a polling station, a woman holding an iPhone Duo, and a man in the background looking up at a drone swarm flying over a river with a moderate streamflow, under a sky with a warm orange glow. 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. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
Mark Gurman from Bloomberg reported on 2026-05-15 that Apple is designing its own game controllers for iPhone based on references found in macOS beta code.
By June Park · 5d
