I try to find the best ways to travel on a budget, and the Southwest Companion Pass might be the most valuable elite status perk from any airline. Here’s how you can earn your Southwest Companion Pass for 2025. What is the Southwest Airlines Companion Pass? Southwest is the only major airline that offers a companion pass with an unlimited number of uses. Southwest’s Companion Pass essentially offers a free plane ticket for whoever you choose to bring with you. You simply pay for your own ticket and any taxes and fees for your designated companion. (It’s typically just the…
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From oddball pirates to monster hunters to a peculiar girl named Wednesday, Netflix’s fantasy titles are epic.If you’re looking for fantasy TV shows, Netflix is where it’s at. There’s a reason the streamer is still the top dog — and when it comes to genre entertainment, look no further. When Game of Thrones first hit television screens, audiences weren’t ready for the scope that can be achieved with fantasy programming on TV. Since George R.R. Martin’s series ended, streamers have thrown a cavalcade of fantasy ideas at the proverbial wall. Of all the streamers, it was Netflix that has steadily brought…
The Christmas period is here, and with it the Epic Games Store has stepped up its usual weekly free game offer to give you a new game every day. Christmas Day saw the award-winning Control up for grabs. Boxing Day? The same publisher, 505 Games, had another title on offer. The day after, a racing game like no other. Just like Steam, which is owned by Valve, Epic’s platform gives gamers access to a huge library of awesome games, from indie hits to big-budget blockbusters. Whether you’re into action-packed adventures, deep RPGs or cute indie games, there’s definitely something for…
We are at the dawn of a new space age. If you doubt, simply look back at the last year: From SpaceX’s historic catch of the Super Heavy booster to the record-breaking number of lunar landing attempts, this year was full of historic and ambitious missions and demonstrations. We’re taking a look back at the five most significant moments or trends in the space industry this year. Naysayers might think SpaceX is overrepresented on this list, but that just shows how far ahead the space behemoth is in relation to its competitors. 1. Boeing’s bungled Starliner mission turns into a…
Encode, the nonprofit organization that co-sponsored California’s ill-fated SB 1047 AI safety legislation, has requested permission to file an amicus brief in support of Elon Musk’s injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit company. In a proposed brief submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Friday afternoon, counsel for Encode said that OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit would “undermine” the firm’s mission to “develop and deploy … transformative technology in a way that is safe and beneficial to the public.” “OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, claim to be developing society-transforming technology, and those claims…
Data-loss prevention startup Cyberhaven says hackers published a malicious update to its Chrome extension that was capable of stealing customer passwords and session tokens, according to an email sent to affected customers, who may have been victims of this suspected supply-chain attack. Cyberhaven confirmed the cyberattack to The Tech Spot on Friday but declined to comment on specifics about the incident. An email from the company sent to customers, obtained and published by security researcher Matt Johansen, said the hackers compromised a company account to publish a malicious update to its Chrome extension in the early morning of December 25.…
DeepSeek hasn’t revealed much about the source of DeepSeek V3’s training data. But there’s no shortage of public datasets containing text generated by GPT-4 via ChatGPT. If DeepSeek V3 was trained on these, the model might’ve memorized some of GPT-4’s outputs and is now regurgitating them verbatim. “Obviously, the model is seeing raw responses from ChatGPT at some point, but it’s not clear where that is,” Mike Cook, a research fellow at King’s College London specializing in AI, told The Tech Spot. “It could be ‘accidental’… but unfortunately, we have seen instances of people directly training their models on the…
The lawsuit alleges that, over the course of five years, San Francisco unfairly labeled money earned by Lyft drivers as company revenue. In the complaint, Lyft maintains that its drivers are its customers, not employees. “Accordingly, Lyft recognizes revenue from rideshare as being comprised of fees paid to Lyft by drivers, not charges paid by riders to drivers,” the complaint reads. The lawsuit is just the latest chapter in a yearslong debate over how gig economy apps should classify drivers. Last summer, Lyft, Uber, and DoorDash notched a win after the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 22, which allows the…
If you wish to use an iPhone with virtually no bezels around the screen, you will need to wait a little longer than initially thought. A new industry report says the release of Apple’s long-rumored OLED display with ‘zero bezels’ for the iPhone has slid further into an uncertain timeline. South Korean outlet The Elec, which was the first to report on the existence of a ‘zero-bezel” iPhone display, has now reported the launch date is unforeseeable because the technology “is not yet developed enough. The publication did not outrightly dismiss the existence of the supposed iPhone display, stating that…
James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, would seem to mark a return to an era of serious-minded films about serious-minded musicians, psychological character studies rather than jukebox-inflected, semi-fantasist extravaganzas. In honor of its release this past week, it’s worth looking back at the films that have led us here. The following is a list of the seven best music biopics has ever released. 1.Walk the Line – 2005 Mangold’s earlier music biopic was the prototypical 21st-century example of the genre. Walk the Line, the birth-to-death story of Johnny Cash (played by the Oscar-nominated Joaquin Phoenix), was memorably parodied…
