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Retail Sales Weaker Than Expected

Consumer spending grew at a slower than expected pace in February, but underlying data showed steady growth despite inflation and economic slowdown concerns.
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This App Verifies Your Dating Matches
Fuzzy, a company using identity verification to protect users from dating fraud, launched at SXSW. Founder & CEO Kalie Nitzsche explains how it works.
Elon Musk claims X being targeted in ‘massive cyberattack’
Hours after a series of outages that left X unavailable to thousands of users, Elon Musk is claiming that the social media platform is being targeted in a “massive cyberattack." Musk said on a post Monday that the attacker is either a large, coordinated group or a country. Complaints about outages spiked Monday at 6 a.m. Eastern and again at 10 a.m, with more than 40,000 users reporting no access to the platform, according to the tracking website Downdetector.com. A sustained outage appeared to begin just after noon Eastern.
WaPo columnist quits after it nixes her piece criticizing owner Bezos
A columnist who has worked at the Washington Post since 1984 quit on Monday, after she said the publisher Will Lewis killed her column criticizing owner Jeff Bezos' edict that the newspaper's editorial section concentrate on issues of personal liberties and the free market. Ruth Marcus wrote in a resignation letter that “it breaks my heart to conclude that I must leave.” Her exit was first reported by The New York Times. The Post said that it respected Marcus' decision and wishes her the best. The newspaper has been reeling, both financially and through an exodus of many of its journalists, over the past year.
What to Expect at SXSW 2025
Fast Company's KC Ifeanyi reveals what's next as media, tech, and social collide. Cheddar's exclusive SXSW content airs March 12th and 14th at 8pm EST
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