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August 12, 2019, 1:55 PM

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Steve Dent / Engadget:
Samsung has unveiled ISOCELL Bright HMX, a 108MP smartphone camera sensor developed in collaboration with Xiaomi, one of the largest ever at 1/1.33-inches  —  With the smartphone megapixel camera wars raging on, Samsung has fired a significant shot.  It unveiled a 108-megapixel smartphone …
Wall Street Journal:
The FBI is seeking an early alerting tool that scans public data from social media to monitor threats to the US, which may violate Facebook and Twitter policies  —  Agency solicits vendor proposals to collect data from Facebook, other social media to head off safety threats
Jon Fingas / Engadget:
Twitch reverts Tyler “Ninja” Blevins' channel to offline mode after he calls Twitch out for using it to promote other streamers, including a porn broadcast  —  Ninja (aka Tyler Blevins) has largely avoided any bad blood between him and Twitch following his jump to Mixer, but that apparently didn't last long.
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
ByteDance launches Toutiao Search, a mobile-optimized search engine in China that shows only censored search results, setting it up as a competitor to Baidu  —  ByteDance has taken another step into search with the launch of a new search portal today.  Called Toutiao Search …
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
Researchers: security flaws in 40+ kernel drivers from 20 vendors including Intel, AMD, and Huawei, can give hackers improperly elevated privileges on Windows  —  Affected vendors include the likes of Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, ASRock, AMI, Gigabyte, Realtek, Huawei, and more.
Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk:
District judge rules that Coinbase must face a negligence lawsuit from customers who bought bitcoin cash, following its allegedly botched listing in 2017  —  Coinbase must face a negligence lawsuit from customers who bought bitcoin cash (BCH) following its allegedly botched listing …

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