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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Release Automation 4.7 from CA Technologies Release Gives a Glimpse Into DevOps Nirvana

Customers who have large development projects are looking at software development, deployment, and management in novel ways compared to legacy projects. More customers are investing in Agile, automated testing, and ways to write code faster. On the operations side things are floating up into the cloud or distributing into virtualization. The problem: Investing in Agile ...

Interactive Music Video Facehawk by Aptly Named Band ‘Big Data’ Can See What You Do

In an era where people are slowly realizing that their digital footprint is more akin to a bigfoot than a sandal have been warily eyeing the activity of the NSA as well as the activity of corporations like Google and Facebook. Hooking into this new-found self-consciousness, the Facehawk experience takes data from a users Facebook ...

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 September 4: Bitcoin Markets in India and Kenya, Regulation Woes Cause Disturbance in the United States

As the cryptocurrency slowly gains traction across technological avenues and into the general population questions crop up about how Bitcoin can be used in marketplaces where traditional currency has been struggling. Locales such as Africa have poor central banking and little support for easy transactions, but with the prevalence of mobile networks and Internet penetration ...

Axway Updates Development Agility With the Release of API Server 7.2

Today, Axway is announcing the release of API Server 7.2 designed to unify API management and update the lifecycle, management, delivery, and security of API use by development and operations teams—an important segment of modern day DevOps and services in general. Dubbed a next-generation API Server, 7.2 is focused on standardizing business-to-business (as well as ...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Marines.com With Message to US Marine Corps

The quickly-gaining-huge-publicity hacking group the Syrian Electronic Army has struck again, this time with a lot of waves made in the media: they managed to vandalize Marines.com with a message to the United States Marine Corps. In the message they call the Marines “brothers.” The SEA is known as political hactivists and backers of Syrian ...

The Syrian Electronic Army Denies Being D0xed by Anonymous

The Syrian Electronic Army (or SEA) has been a thorn in the side of the online security community for months now and has been implicated in numerous hacks involving mostly cybervandalism of Twitter accounts and journal websites such as the New York Times and Huffington Post. Recently, cells of the hacking collective Anonymous have geared ...

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 August 28: Bitcoin Luminaries Meet With Regulators, BitPay Adds Microtransactions, Bitcoin Added to Oxford Online Dictionary

Yet another week of tumult rolls through the Bitcoin cryptocurrency market and community as curiosity piques about the interest of regulators in the virtual currency. News is beginning to trickle in from Monday’s closed-door meeting between representatives of The Bitcoin Foundation and a bevy of federal regulators and lawmaker advisors. BitPay has joined the bandwagon ...

Appcelerator Snaps Up API Startup Singly Pushing the DevOps Platform Normalization Curve

Getting a web app to run natively on mobile requires a good bit of graphical optimization and code editing that most developers would rather not do. An emerging San Francisco-based startup called Singly promises to simplify this chore with an abstraction layer that normalizes third party functionality across a wide range of platforms. Singly’s DataFabric ...

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 August 21: Bitcoin is Money

As world governments begin to grasp that a virtual currency can and is being used as part of commerce and trade, it means that they must come to understand what that means for them. In most cultures that grow beyond barter and abstract value into currency also start to regulate the production and use of ...

Exclusive: A Study of the Development Team Working on Missing World Media’s City of Heroes Spiritual Successor The Phoenix Project

In the wake of video game publisher NCSoft Corp. shutting down the popular MMORPG City of Heroes a number of fans have found themselves in limbo—primarily because for a very long time, CoH has been the pinnacle-best of superhero-themed MMOs in the video game market. As a result, the fans have been aching for a replacement ...