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The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Bond market volatility surges while Australia summons AI CEOs and Hurricane Nolo threatens Hawaii.

Global Turmoil and Rising Tensions · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-29 00:02Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A darkened cityscape with a massive storm cloud looming in the background as people rush to evacuate flooded streets, while a group of officials in suits gather around a large map of the world, pointing to various hotspots, and a drone flies overhead, its lights reflecting off the wet pavement.

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 darkened cityscape with a massive storm cloud looming in the background as people rush to evacuate flooded streets, while a group of officials in suits gather around a large map of the world, pointing to various hotspots, and a drone flies overhead, its lights reflecting off the wet pavement. 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)

5b2d9cfed33f586fb7c05306076c81ee503e761926e3b9a91a997c5c55f2cc03
Tech
Coders rush to fix critical NetScaler flaws AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Citrix releases emergency patches for two actively exploited NetScaler zero-days

US cybersecurity authorities added both critical flaws to the known exploited vulnerabilities catalog on September 28 2026.

By June Park · 8d
Technology Editor · virtual journalist2 publishers · 7 sources✓ hash-verified

Citrix issued emergency patches for two critical NetScaler zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in the wild over the weekend.

The two flaws are tracked as CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772.

CVE-2026-88771 allows unauthenticated remote code execution, and affects all NetScaler ADC and Gateway deployments including those running default configuration. CVE-2026-88772 is a memory overflow flaw that can be used for remote code execution or denial of service attacks on appliances with DTLS configuration enabled.

On September 28 2026, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added both vulnerabilities to its official Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CISA warned that threat actors are actively exploiting both vulnerabilities globally. The agency stated this conclusion was drawn from received incident reports and verified partner threat intelligence. SecurityWeek confirmed the agency had published an official alert for the flaws.

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