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You can finally turn Riot's Vanguard anti-cheat off when you're not playing a game
By Andy Chalk Published
news Most of you, anyway.

Riot taunts would-be hackers using physical hardware to cheat: 'congrats to the owners of a brand new $6k paperweight'
By Jacob Fox Published
News Vanguard gets a DMA-spanking upgrade.

Fortnite adds more anti-cheat requirements, including Secure Boot and TPM, so it might be time to get tinkering in that BIOS
By Jacob Fox Published
News Most modern motherboards should support these features.

Highguard requires Secure Boot and Easy Anti-Cheat to run, leaving Linux and kernel-conscious gamers out in the cold
By James Bentley Published
News You will also need a TPM.

Secure Boot certificates used by anti-cheat software are set to expire in June but new ones are already in the mail
By Jacob Ridley Published
News You shouldn't have to worry about expired certificates if you keep your PC up-to-date.

2025 might have been the year for Linux gaming, but there's still a way to go until I switch from Windows
By Jacob Fox Published
Reluctantly Microsoft Windows, sadly, still offers some things that Linux cannot.

You won't be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: 'this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats'
By James Bentley Published
News This should mean fewer cheaters going forward.
Microsoft's updated anti-cheating measures go far beyond Secure Boot, including 'Remote Attestation' for online system verification
By Andy Edser Published
News Cheaters never prosper. I mean, they do, but they shouldn't.
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