Riot Games has stepped in to squash rumors that it is using its Vanguard anti-cheat to "brick" the PCs of players who get caught cheating in its games. Rumors that the League of Legends and Valorant ...

Vanguard anti-cheat is reportedly bricking hackers' PCs, but not everyone is convinced that it's the right move.

Riot has clarified how Vanguard’s latest update targets DMA-based cheat hardware by tightening hardware-level memory protections. The crackdown may stop advanced cheaters, but it is also raising ...

Riot Games' anti-cheat system might not be as creative as others, but it's an exceptionally effective system that catches ...

May 22 2026, 11:27am PST: Riot has since issued a tweet confirming that Vanguard does not "brick" PCs, clarifying that the devices in its tweet are "cheat hardware devices." It states that "Vanguard ...

Since it was first implemented into Valorant in 2020, Riot’s anti-cheat software Vanguard has been fairly controversial. Players have raised concerns about security, mid-game crashes, and the fact ...

A new Science analysis of 95,513 students finds AI use barely predicts cheating across majors, yet heavy individual users cheat far more. What it means for grading.

We used a gift card to pay for dinner the other night. When I checked the transactions online, the 20% tip — which I wrote on the merchant copy after the server returned the card — had not been added ...

In a world where AI can generate research papers, solve equations or create art, educators worry about how college students may be using it, misusing it or missing out on it. Yet there have been few ...

Solution manuals have long been online, and any number of web sites have enabled students to cheat on assigned homework. I’m a professor of mechanical engineering, and this became apparent to me about ...