Raiders select Ashton Jeanty with 6th pick in 2025 NFL Draft

Boise State star and Heisman Trophy finalist Ashton Jeanty is heading to the Las Vegas Raiders, as he becomes the first running back off the draft board as expected.  While the Chicago Bears and Jacksonville Jaguars were recent potential destinations for Jeanty entering Thursday night, it was always the Raiders who he was connected with. …

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Bluesky is back up after a major outage

Bluesky experienced a major outage on Thursday evening that lasted around an hour. On my desktop browser, my Bluesky feed wouldn’t load at all, just showing a spinning loading circle. I saw something similar with the mobile app; I could log in, but when I did, the feed didn’t show. Other Verge colleagues were also…

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Titans select Cam Ward with 1st pick in 2025 NFL Draft

The obvious is now official – Cam Ward is a Tennessee Titan. The Titans owned the first overall pick of the NFL Draft, and after apparently fielding calls for it throughout the offseason, they decided to stick with it and take the player who has separated himself from the pack over this process. Earlier in…

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IGN and CNET owner Ziff Davis sues OpenAI

Ziff Davis, the owner of several digital outlets like CNET, PCMag, IGN, and Everyday Health, is suing OpenAI over claims of copyright infringement, as first reported by The New York Times. In the lawsuit, the digital media company accuses OpenAI of  “intentionally and relentlessly” creating “exact copies” of its outlets’ works without permission. The company…

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