Published on: 2025-04-22 11:08:41
It’s been an eventful time for Dungeons & Dragons lately, particularly behind the scenes. But an upcoming update is about to affect all its players, particularly those on the creative side. On April 22, Wizards of the Coast is publishing a 5.2 version of its System Release Document (or SRD)—aka, the game’s base rules to be used by third-party publishers making products built off the TTRPG’s foundation—that will include “foundational content” from its recently released Core Rulebooks. Going forw
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Welcome to The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP)! I'm Darwin Salazar, Head of Growth and Marketing at Monad and former Detection Engineer in big tech. Each week, I dig through all the major headlines to bring you the latest security product innovation and industry news. Subscribe below for weekly updates! 📧 Google just acquired Wiz for $32B, 5 years after it’s founding. If you haven’t been watching closely, you may be asking yourself “How on earth did they achieve that?”. It’s an unprecedented, histori
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The goblet of fire sits in the center of the store. The blue flame will occasionally turn red, as it does in the book and movie when a name is dropped into it. Notice that the floor around the goblet has a maze pattern, in reference to the maze in the Triwizard Tournament. The wands featured on this display are for characters who participated in the Triwizard Tournament.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 09:50:33
Thanks to the first Wicked movie and its upcoming sequel, there’s some Wizard of Oz fever going around. The original 1939 film celebrated its 85th birthday last year ahead of Wicked, and now it’s getting the spotlight once more thanks to the Las Vegas Sphere. Beginning in August, the venue will provide a “fully immersive experience” for Wizard of Oz that will play on the Sphere’s 160,000-square foot screen. Made in collaboration with Google, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Magnopus, this new versio
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After 28 years, longtime Dungeons & Dragons designer Chris Perkins revealed he’s exited the company and retired from Wizards of the Coast. Perkins said on Friday he was leaving with a “perfect fairytale ending…I can’t wait to enjoy D&D purely as a fan again, knowing the game is in good hands.” His retirement comes in the wake of the TTRPG’s 50th anniversary and the recent launch of its revised rulebooks, which he said were “doing gangbusters.” Prior to this, he stepped down as D&D’s product lea
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Sphere Entertainment has announced two new immersive experiences coming to its 516-foot wide spherical venue in Las Vegas. An enhanced version of The Wizard of Oz will premiere on the Sphere’s 160,000 square foot screen on August 28th, 2025, while a new film by Academy Award-winning directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo) f
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The past two years, Universal chose CinemaCon to debut the first footage from its adaptation of Wicked and now, with the second and final film on the way, it had to happen again. Director Jon M. Chu, producer Marc Platt, and stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were all on hand to debut the first footage from the highly anticipated Wicked: For Good, and while it’s not yet online, here’s what happened. Glass breaks on what appears to be a brand new apartment. Glinda is living in in the Emerald
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Assaf Rappaport, Wiz, on Centre Stage during day one of Web Summit 2021 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Google's acquisition of cybersecurity startup Wiz could be a turning point for an uncertain IPO market and a mergers and acquisitions environment aching from a slowdown in deal activity. Alphabet announced Tuesday that it plans to buy the Israeli cybersecurity startup for $32 billion in its biggest acquisition ever. The deal came months after an initial $23 billion offer fell throug
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The real story: Speed and Security at DevOps scale The real story behind Google acquiring Wiz is how badly the need for speed dominates every enterprise’s DevOps cycles building apps, models and platforms without sacrificing security. By acquiring Wiz, Google gets an AI-infused Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) designed to eliminate DevSecOps bottle
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Wiz’s $32 billion all-cash acquisition by Google parent Alphabet promises a colossal payday for the cybersecurity startup’s early-stage investors. The deal is a big win for Sequoia, one of the best-known VC firms, which stands to make $3 billion, about 25x the money it invested in the company, Bloomberg reported. Despite substantial returns for Sequoia’s limited partners, their percentage gains will be far less than those of another early Wiz backer: Israel-based VC Cyberstarts. Cybersecurity-
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Hasbro's Wizards of the Coast has laid off 30 people who built Sigil, its recently released virtual tabletop experience, Polygon reports. The app allows Dungeons & Dragons players to build virtual, 3D game boards, complete with miniatures and dice, so they can play the classic tabletop roleplaying game remotely. News of the layoffs were first shared on March 18 in a LinkedIn post from Andy Collins, the design lead on Sigil. "Today, approximately 30 talented developers (90 percent of the team) w
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Hasbro’s Sigil 3D virtual tabletop tool—which recently launched in a messy, unfinished state as an early public playtest—is reportedly being shuttered after years of development and being folded into, in some capacity, existing D&D Beyond virtual tabletop system, Maps. Rascal News reports that, in an internal message sent to Wizards of the Coast employees, the studio confirmed that Sigil will “transition to a DDB feature,” and attempt to release currently developed extra content for users at no
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google’s latest acquisition is its most expensive yet — and perhaps its riskiest, too. On Tuesday, the search giant announced that it acquired the cloud security startup Wiz for $32 billion. It’s a major bet that Wiz can help beef up Google’s cloud business, which makes far less money than the offerings built by its biggest rivals. But to do that, G
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In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Wiz logo on a smartphone arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Seven months ago, Alphabet lost a marquee case against the Biden administration's Justice Department, which accused the company of maintaining an illegal monopoly in search. Weeks earlier, Google's pursuit of cybersecurity vendor Wiz, in what would have been its largest deal ever, fizzled in part because o
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Tuesday’s big news that Google is acquiring security startup Wiz for a record-breaking $32 billion comes with a very big qualifier. Google says it will position Wiz as a “multicloud” offering, meaning Wiz will not be a Google-only shop. The reality is that Google had no choice but to do this, and a closer look at the reasons behind the decision also highlights Google’s weak spots in the months ahead. Customer retention Wiz brings a massive customer list to Google. As of today, the startup has
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The Wiz website on a smartphone arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Google on Tuesday signed a "definitive agreement" to acquire Wiz, a New York-based cloud security startup, for $32 billion in an all-cash deal. The deal, Google's largest ever, will bolster the company's security technology in a world of advancing artificial intelligence and cybersecurity threats. Wiz will become a part of the company's cloud business, and Google said it expects the deal to close in 2026. "Go
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 06:00:40
Google announced today a definitive agreement to acquire leading cloud security platform Wiz for $32 billion in an all-cash transaction. Wiz was founded in 2020 and has become one of the largest cybersecurity firms focusing on securing cloud services. The company offers an online cybersecurity platform that connects to different cloud providers, enabling organizations to detect and mitigate security risks across various environments from a single dashboard. Wiz says its products will continue
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 06:53:48
Google today announced a $32 billion deal to buy Wiz, an Israeli cloud security company that would become part of Google's cloud division if the merger is completed. The all-cash deal requires regulatory approval at a time when the Department of Justice is trying to break up Google by forcing it to sell the Chrome browser after a judge ruled that Google illegally maintained a monopoly. Google is also awaiting a verdict in a separate ad-tech monopoly case brought by the US government. Google's
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Today we announced an agreement to acquire Wiz. Read our press release below, and learn more about what this means for Cloud customers and partners on the Cloud blog. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and NEW YORK, N.Y. (March 18, 2025)—Google LLC today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz, Inc., a leading cloud security platform headquartered in New York, for $32 billion, subject to closing adjustments, in an all-cash transaction. Once closed, Wiz will join Google Cloud. This acq
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 16:46:49
Google is making the biggest acquisition in its history. The company’s parent company Alphabet is buying Wiz, the cloud security startup, for $32 billion in an all-cash transaction. The deal has now been confirmed. Wiz will remain an independent platform that will work across all cloud providers, not just Google Cloud Platform. There will be more hiring to expand the business, and likely more acquisitions, which is something Wiz has been working to do for the last year. Our sources tell us tha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 22:59:24
Assaf Rappaport, Wiz, on Centre Stage during day one of Web Summit 2021 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Google on Tuesday signed a "definitive agreement" to acquire Wiz, the New York-based cloud security startup, for $32 billion in an all-cash deal, according to releases. The deal will improve the company's cloud security offering in a world of advancing artificial intelligence threats. Wiz will become a part of Google's cloud business. "Google Cloud is a leader in cloud infrastructu
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 22:36:49
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has announced its largest-ever acquisition, entering into a deal to buy New York-based cybersecurity firm Wiz, making it a part of its Google Cloud division. This is the company’s second attempt to buy Wiz after talks stalled last year at a lower $23 billion evaluation. Wiz is a fast-growing Israeli-founded startup that works with companies like Microsoft and Amazon to provide cloud-based cybersecurity solutions. The company was valued at $12 billion in May 20
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 21:46:49
Google is making the biggest acquisition in its history. The company’s parent company Alphabet is acquiring Wiz, the cloud security startup, for $32 billion in an all-cash transaction. The deal has now been confirmed. Wiz will remain an independent platform that will work across all cloud providers, not just Google Cloud Platform. There will be more hiring to expand the business, and likely more acquisitions, which is something Wiz has been working to do for the last year. Our sources tell us
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 07:46:49
Google is making the biggest acquisition in its history. The company’s parent company Alphabet is acquiring Wiz, the cloud security startup, for $32 billion, our sources say. The deal will still need regulatory and other approvals before closing. From what we can see, Google and Wiz have yet to confirm anything official. Other outlets are also reporting the deal is done. The deal has been on-again off-again for nearly part of a year and appeared to revive again this week, with Thomas Kurian —
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 10:11:27
Google’s parent company Alphabet is again in advanced talks to acquire cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz, a person familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. The two companies were close to securing a deal at a $23 billion valuation last summer, but the transaction failed to materialize. This time, the price being discussed is higher, the person said. A price of around $30 billion was reported by The Wall Street Journal. Thomas Kurian, head of Google’s cloud division, is again leading the effort.
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