Grim

Thinning profits at Tesla Inc. and signs of broader weakness in the US auto industry are sending ominous signals for the US economic outlook.Tesla's troubles are no secret as Elon Musk's company has repeatedly cut prices to lure reluctant buyers. But the problem goes beyond the high-profile electric-vehicle maker: Auto-lending giant Ally Financial Inc.'s first-quarter profit took a hit as it made fewer loans and set aside money for defaults, and dealers AutoNation Inc. and Lithia Motors Inc. sold fewer cars, trucks and…

Grim Vol. 1 Writing: Stephanie PhillipsIllustrated: FlavianoColor: Rico RenziLettering: Tom NapolitanoPublisher: BOOM! StudiosPublication Date: January 2023 In Grim we are introduced to death via a car crash. A man wakes up, on the snow, having gone through a guardrail and now must contend with the realization that he did not live through the experience. Luckily, there’s a cool Reaper there to guide him through his journey into the afterlife. Jessica Harrow, along with her Reaper friends, ferry the dead through the river…

Photo: Ryan Green/AMCEvery hero needs a villain, and Marvel’s Wonder Man—the alias of Hollywood-star-turned-indestructible-superhero Simon Williams—has the Grim Reaper, a bad guy best known for two things: 1) wielding a truly goofy scythe-gauntlet, and 2) being Simon Williams’ brother Eric. The Wonder Man TV series found its Simon in Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and has now found its Eric in Fear the Walking Dead’s Demetrius Grosse.How Ewan McGregor Helped Bring Back Obi WanIn the comics, Eric took the mantle/scythe of the Grim…

EU police force Europol on Monday warned about the potential misuse of artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT in phishing attempts, disinformation and cybercrime, adding to the chorus of concerns ranging from legal to ethical issues. Since its release last year, Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT has set off a tech craze, prompting rivals to launch similar products and companies to integrate it or similar technologies into their apps and products. "As the capabilities of LLMs (large language models) such as…

Criminals are set to take advantage of artificial intelligence like ChatGPT to commit fraud and other cybercrimes, Europe's policing agency warned on Monday.From phishing to disinformation and malware, the rapidly evolving abilities of chatbots will be used not only to better mankind, but to scam it too, Europol said in a new report. Created by US startup OpenAI, ChatGPT appeared in November and was quickly seized upon by users amazed at its ability to answer difficult questions clearly, write sonnets or code, and even…

Gal Panic Inti Creates has announced that it will be retitling its recently released platformer Grim Guardians: Demon Purge as Gal Guardians: Demon Purge in all English-speaking countries. The action-packed Gothic adventure will be briefly removed from storefronts while the name change takes place. The need to pull the ol’ switcheroo comes in response to a legal claim from the owners of fantasy franchise Grimguard — a series that utilizes the similar sounding name for its range of tabletop and mobile titles. It’s…

An L.A. County prosecutor on Monday was awarded $1.5 million in a retaliation lawsuit against Dist. Atty. George Gascón. It is a grim omen for the county’s top prosecutor, who faces at least a dozen similar civil claims.Shawn Randolph, the former head of the juvenile division of the district attorney’s office, claimed she was shuttled off to the parole division for pushing back against some of Gascón’s shifts to the handling of criminal cases involving minors, including his blanket ban on trying juveniles as adults.…

Bitcoin's new year rally is resuscitating many crypto-mining companies seeking to escape from near financial ruin after one of the most devastating quarters ever for the nascent industry. Whether they succeed in making a comeback remains in question.High electricity costs, a plunge in digital assets prices and persistent network competition in the fourth quarter slashed mining profit margins and made it difficult for miners to stay afloat. Core Scientific Inc., the largest public Bitcoin mining company by computing…

Exorcise Class For the students of Sakurazaki Academy, it looks like school’s out — outta luck, outta time, outta this dimension. The discovery of a dusty old mirror by mischievous demon girl Kurona has led to the popular place of learning somehow fusing with the dark arts, resulting in both the interior and the exterior of the building forming a cavernous, gothic castle, while replacing textbooks, playgrounds, and chalkboards with iron maidens, candlelit chandeliers, and a mass menagerie of demons, ghouls, and specters.…

A cutout of 3 images taken of the Zhurong rover from March 2022 to February 2023.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizonaChina’s Zhurong rover appears to still be snoozing since entering into hibernation mode a little less than a year ago. The Chinese robot was supposed to wake up in December but recent images captured by a NASA orbiter reveal that the rover hasn’t moved from its position on the Martian surface for months.The images, released on Tuesday, were captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)…