Kyt Dotson

Kyt Dotson is a Senior Editor at SiliconAngle and works to cover beats surrounding DevOps, security, gaming, and cutting edge technology. Before joining SiliconAngle, Kyt worked as a software engineer starting at Motorola in Q&A to eventually settle at Pets911.com where he helped build a vast database for pet adoption and a lost and found system. Kyt is a published author who writes science fiction and fantasy works that incorporate ideas from modern-day technological innovation and explore the outcome of living with those technologies.

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Tailscale launches zero-trust virtual private network solution for enterprise customers

Tailscale Inc., a corporate virtual private network provider that uses mesh networking technology, today rolled out its zero-trust networking solution for enterprise customers that allows them to ensure that each connection is authenticated and all traffic is encrypted end-to-end. Founded in 2019, Tailscale launched to ease issues with secure connectivity caused by traditional VPN services, ...

Veracode unveils GPT-powered ‘find and fix’ security solution for developers

Veracode Inc., the provider of a continuous software security platform provider, today unveiled Veracode Fix, a new AI-powered product trained on the company’s proprietary dataset that suggests fixes for flaws found in software to help developers deploy secure code. “For far too long, organizations have had to choose between remediating software security flaws and meeting ...

European parliament looks to build strong regulations on use of AI

The European Parliament is working through key legislation to regulate the use of artificial intelligence to regulate its use based on its ability to do harm to society and business, including measures that would force chatbots to declare they’re not human. Members of the European Parliament are meeting currently in Brussels over a set of ...

Hackers who hit Western Digital are now demanding ransom for data

The cybercriminals who hit storage maker Western Digital Corp. in a network breach earlier this month have returned to demand ransom for stolen data, which includes customer information The hackers have claimed the theft of more than 10 terabytes of data and are seeking “a minimum 8 figures” not to leak sensitive information. Western Digital ...

Italian regulators outline rules for reinstatement of OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Italy’s data protection agency announced Wednesday that it will lift the country’s ban on OpenAI LP’s artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT if the company agrees to enforce a set of rules that will protect users’ privacy by April 30. The Guarantor for the Protection of Personal Data, or GPDP, ordered OpenAI to suspend operations in Italy ...

Ethereum completes major upgrade allowing withdrawal of staked tokens

The Ethereum blockchain completed its “Shapella” upgrade on Wednesday evening, allowing users who locked up Ether tokens to support the network to withdraw their cryptocurrency for the first time. The upgrade happened at 6:27 p.m. EDT when the Shanghai and Capella forks happened simultaneously — hence the merging of the names into Shapella – and ...

Creative.ai uses generative AI to help publishers produce video game ads

Austin-based Creative.ai is putting advances in generative artificial intelligence to use for mobile game publishers to help them create video advertisements. Generative AI has taken the internet by storm for its ability to create new content based on data used to train them. Prominent examples include OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT, which can answer questions with human-like ...

Databricks releases Dolly 2.0, an open-source AI like ChatGPT for commercial use

Big-data and machine learning software provider Databricks Inc. today released Dolly 2.0, the next iteration of the company’s open-source generative artificial intelligence model that has ChatGPT-like capabilities. Databricks released Dolly two weeks ago as a response to the multitude of large language model generative AIs on the market today that are mostly inaccessible to researchers ...

Sei Labs nabs $30M to develop high-speed blockchain for trading

Sei Labs, a contributor to the Sei blockchain focused on trading, said today that it has raised $30 million across two strategic funding rounds, according to a press release. Sei is a top-level, or Layer 1, blockchain designed to facilitate digital asset trading at large scale. It claims to be the fastest blockchain in the ...

AI-driven building monitoring startup Infogrid raises $90M

Infogrid, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to optimize building management, today announced that it has raised $90 million in new funding to build out its “smart building” platform that allows customers to monitor data on air quality, occupancy and energy consumption. The company’s platform gathers data from a large variety of internet of things ...