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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 expands Ricochet anti-cheat to combat exploits in Ranked after banning over 263,000 cheaters already this year

Activision got bad actors in Ranked in its sights

GamesRadar

Bob Monkhouse Repair Shop episode pulled over ‘sexist’ concerns

Notebooks containing a detailed record of the late entertainer’s decades-long career were due to feature in a tribute instalment

Evening Standard

Remember ‘sad girl rock’? Snail Mail, one of its key musicians, doesn’t think it ever existed

INTERVIEW: Along with artists such as Mitski and Phoebe Bridgers, Lindsey Jordan came to define the angsty, women-led and often queer melancholy of late 2010s indie-rock. But it was a media-concocted movement with a ‘weird energy’, she tells Louis Chilton, ahead of the release her stellar new album ‘Ricochet’

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Hide your Cronus, hide your XIMs — Call of Duty's anti-cheat team targets third party devices ahead of Black Ops 7 Season 2

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7's Team RICOCHET has announced new changes to anti-cheat security ahead of the launch of Ranked Play and Season 2 coming February 5.

Windows Central

Activision anti-cheat team goes on another victory lap after 'the strongest beta results in Call of Duty history', brags '99% of matches were cheater-free' and warns that every day they get 'faster'

But you may well have some concerns about that number.

PC Gamer

Activision's Team RICOCHET shares more anti-cheat data from Black Ops 7's beta and things are looking REALLY good

Activision's Team RICOCHET reports that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 was 99% cheat -free by the end of its weeklong beta, and shares plans for new AI-powered cheat detection tools coming at launch.

Windows Central

Call of Duty cheaters arrive day 1 to the early access Black Ops 7 beta, much to the FPS community's dismay: "This can't be happening… ALREADY"

Fans are saying this is "the real reason CoD is declining"

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Like Battlefield 6, Call of Duty Has Announced the Roll Out of New Anti-cheat Protections Utilizing TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot in Preparation for Black Ops 7

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Season 5 launches on August 7, and the RICOCHET anti-cheat team has announced new hardware-level protections in anticipation of Black Ops 7's launch later this year.

Windows Central

NYT Connections today hints and answers — Monday, May 12 (#701)

Get today's NYT Connections clues and answers for today's puzzle #701 on May 12.

Tom’s Guide

Valve fans come together to smash the Steam concurrents record for the studio's least-popular game: 'We all know Ricochet is the best Valve game ever made'

Ricochet finally gets the respect it deserves.

PC Gamer

TeamRICOCHET unveils plan to use machine learning in its effort to ramp up Call of Duty anti-cheat efforts

Call of Duty's TeamRICOCHET has fought an uphill battle stopping cheaters since Black Ops 6's first season. With Season 3 on the horizon, new tools are planned to stop disruptive players.

Windows Central

Over 60% of Call of Duty players reported for cheating are on console, but the data says nearly all cheaters are on PC: 'We've found that many of these reports have been inaccurate'

Console cheating is uncommon, yet the platform takes the brunt of the blame from players.

PC Gamer

Roman Kemp says visiting The Repair Shop for Christmas show ‘really special’

In the episode the team repairs a One Show viewer’s teddy bear.

Evening Standard

Team Ricochet is combating cheaters in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 with 'hourly sweeps' and 'AI systems' but even with over 19,000 bans, players aren't seeing the results

This doesn't bode well for Warzone.

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Windows Central

Black Ops 6 cheaters are getting banned from ranked play, but not fast enough — even with help from AI

The team behind the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 anticheat software has issued an update on how many accounts have been banned since ranked play went live.

GamesRadar

Call of Duty hacker says "I had my fun" after reportedly getting thousands of Warzone and Modern Warfare 3 players falsely banned

"It was nice to see it get fixed and see unbans"

PC Gamer

'I had my fun' says hacker who used Call of Duty anti-cheat exploit to ban 'thousands upon thousands' of innocent players

Catching strays.

Digital Camera World

I needed speedy reflexes and the right camera settings to get this amazing photo of a bouncy dog mid-flight

Photo of the Day: A fast lens, the right AF mode and a whole lot of trial and error were required to land this jaw-dropping doggie action shot

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Windows Central

Activision drops the ban hammer on more than 65,000 Call of Duty cheaters

Activision's TeamRICOCHET anti-cheat enforcement has deployed new detection measures and purged leaderboards following a ban sweep against cheaters in Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare 3.

The Hindu

Angelo, who won well in his last start, should repeat in the Trainers Trophy

Trainer P.Shroff’s ward Angelo favored to win Trainers Trophy in Sunday’s races with specific rail placements.

The Hindu

Market King should repeat in the Dr. S.C. Jain Sprinters’ Championship

Trainer S.K. Sunderji’s ward Market King should score an encore in the Dr. S.C. Jain Sprinters’ Championship, the main attraction of Saturday’s (Feb. 3) races in Mumbai

The Guardian - UK

‘OK, Denise, imagine you’re a chicken nugget!’ The bizarre rise of air fryer-based TV

From odd set pieces in the crystal dome to the X Factor’s voiceover man providing narration, television is increasingly trying to wring content from air fryers. But why?

PC Gamer

Call of Duty goes Final Destination on cheaters by pancaking them straight into the map

And the new system is called Splat.

GamesRadar

Modern Warfare 3 will cut parachutes to make cheaters go "splat"

"If a cheater is discovered, we may randomly, and for fun, disable their parachute"

Windows Central

Call of Duty's Team RICOCHET embraces machine learning and torments cheaters in Warzone and Modern Warfare 3

Call of Duty's Team Ricochet provided an update on upcoming advances in the Ricochet anti-cheat system including new mitigation tactics for MW3 and Warzone.

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