It looks as though Uber and Lyft have decided to stop suing each other. Under terms of the deal, Uber will quit poaching Lyft employees and Lyft will quit hacking Uber. Or something like that.

Lyft and its former chief operating officer Travis VanderZanden ended litigation in a California state court in which Lyft accused VanderZanden of breaking his confidentiality pledges when he went to work for Uber. Uber also withdrew a subpoena on Monday in separate litigation over a data breach at Uber, which had targeted an Internet address assigned to Lyft’s chief technology officer (CTO), according to a court filing.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Uber, Lyft Settle Litigation Involving Top Executives

AMD’s next generation GCN GPU is here! We review the AMD Radeon RX 480 and find out what kind of gaming experience it provides at 1080p and 1440p. We compare apples-to-apples with four other video cards to find out how it compares at both resolutions. We even find out how high it will overclock! You waited for the benchmarks, right?

Source: [H]ardOCP – AMD Radeon RX 480 Video Card Review

The NVIDIA Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform has, once again, spurred student teams to wins and new heights of performance at last week’s ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition in Frankfurt, Germany. Teams from South Africa and China both used Tesla GPU accelerators to earn top marks in the fifth annual competition. Indeed, 10 of the 12 competing high school and undergraduate teams — from as far afield as Estonia, Singapore and Spain — deployed GPUs.

South Africa Team Wins Real-Time Challenge

South Africa’s Centre for High Performance Computing team, which has a long string of victories at such events, won ISC’s real-time challenge. They used powerful, power-efficient NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPU accelerators. Each team builds a small cluster of its own design on the show’s exhibit floor. They then race to demonstrate the greatest performance across a series of benchmarks and applications.

China Team Sets New World Record

Also at ISC, the team from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in China, set a new world record of 12.56 teraflops on the LINPACK benchmark, while staying within a 3-kw power consumption limit. The team used Tesla K80 GPU accelerators to power its work. This is the third straight time the Tesla K80 has been used to break this record since the GPU was launched a year and a half ago.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Student Supercomputing Teams Break Records With NVIDIA GPUs

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update is coming to all Windows 10 devices — for free — on Aug. 2. Windows 10 continues to be the fastest-growing version of Windows ever and is now running on more than 350 million devices. The Windows 10 Anniversary Update has all-new breakthrough features that bring Windows Ink and Cortana to the mainstream; a faster, more accessible and more power-efficient Microsoft Edge browser; advanced security features for consumers and enterprises; new gaming experiences; and new tools for the modern classroom. To help protect businesses from today’s modern threats, Microsoft also announced two new security features for enterprise customers: Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection and Windows Information Protection, formerly referred to as enterprise data protection.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Anniversary Update Available Aug. 2