ICE agents shoot a man in the Bronx while researchers link wildfire smoke to mortality risk and Amazon launches new tablets.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-12 00:02Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A somber autumn scene in the Bronx with a Dominican man lying on the ground surrounded by concerned onlookers and a five-year-old child standing nearby as a wildfire smoke haze hangs in the air behind a cityscape with a mix of old and new buildings and people going about their daily lives.
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 autumn scene in the Bronx with a Dominican man lying on the ground surrounded by concerned onlookers and a five-year-old child standing nearby as a wildfire smoke haze hangs in the air behind a cityscape with a mix of old and new buildings and people going about their daily lives. 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)
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Russian and Ukrainian militaries release competing operational claims 11 October
Both defence commands issued public statements on the same day, alongside a warning from a retired British senior officer.
By Lena Okafor · 26mThe Russian Ministry of Defense stated on 11 October that its air defense forces shot down 479 drones operated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the preceding night.
The same ministry also announced it had conducted drone strikes on Ukrainian port infrastructure and maritime vessels used by Ukrainian armed forces.
On the same date, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that Russia has lost 1.55M troops in Ukraine since 24 February 2022.
Retired British Major General Tim Cross warned the same day that Britain's armed forces must have the resources required for their assigned tasks to face the renewed threat of an aggressive Russia.
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