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.

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Unknown attackers strike DNS root name servers with massive DDoS

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

On November 30 and December 1, 2015 unknown attackers unleashed two massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against many of the 13 DNS root name servers in what looked like an attempt to knock them offline. The reasons for this attack …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 9: Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto? At least Wired and Gizmodo think so

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

This week has seen a great deal going on in the Bitcoin community; however, what’s really dominating the news is yesterday’s investigative revelations by Wired and Gizmodo that out Craig Steven Wright as potentially (in part) Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin …

Speedtest.net now allows users to check their Internet speeds using HTML5

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

For the detail-oriented Internet user, Speedtest.net has been the go-to for trying to determine if the service the ISP says you’re getting is what you’re getting has been a mainstay. For a long time now, the site has used Adobe Flash to …

21 Bitcoin Computer Mechanical Turk concept previewed by Jeff Garzik

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Jeff Garzik, Bitcoin core developer and luminary, just released a preview for a proof-of-concept “Mechanical Turk” using the 21 Bitcoin Computer and its discovery marketplace. The idea behind a Mechanical Turk system is to have small jobs offered that can be done …

Apple officially open sources the Swift programming language compiler and tools

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Earlier this year, Apple, Inc. promised to make its Swift programming language open source, and now that promise has come to fruition. Today, Apple released the first version of the Swift compiler and tools as open source, which means that interested developers …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 2: GAW Miners, ZenMiner and Josh Garza face SEC charges, G+ Bitcoin Community 3 years old, LibertyX BTC for cash and more

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Last week had Black Friday hit the retail industry and Bitcoin Black Friday also came and went — but not without a little bit of a scandal, as it turns out the newly minted BitcoinBlackFriday.info website (not to be mistaken for BitcoinBlackFriday.com) …

Popcorn Time still under development in wake of recent troubles

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Although suffering setbacks and developer woes (both legal and personal) movie and media pirate streamer software Popcorn Time appears to be on the path to resurrection. According to an article in Tech Times that cites a currently updating Reddit thread about the …

Fraud Alert: BitcoinBlackFriday.info comes on online aaaand it’s a scam

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Last week an up and coming competitor to Jon Holmquist’s yearly BitcoinBlackFriday.com website appeared with the website BitcoinBlackFriday.info. The website looked slick, filled with information, animations, and a newsletter signup. The owner even sent out a press release earlier in Novemember so …

BitcoinBlackFriday.com now live with over 150 deals in bitcoin

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

If you haven’t checked it out yet, it’s time that you opened up BitcoinBlackFriday.com for the deals of the day when using bitcoin to shop. Beat the crowds, stampedes and broken hearts at brick and mortar stores by going the digital route. …

It’s Black Friday: Do you know who is DDoSing your servers? And how to stop them.

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Today is Black Friday in the U.S. a retail holiday where numerous, extravagant deals are revealed to a ravenous public. In the brick and mortar universe, this can become a free-for-all when shoppers will camp out for days in front of a …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Unknown attackers strike DNS root name servers with massive DDoS

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 9: Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto? At least Wired and Gizmodo think so

Speedtest.net now allows users to check their Internet speeds using HTML5

21 Bitcoin Computer Mechanical Turk concept previewed by Jeff Garzik

Apple officially open sources the Swift programming language compiler and tools

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 2: GAW Miners, ZenMiner and Josh Garza face SEC charges, G+ Bitcoin Community 3 years old, LibertyX BTC for cash and more

Popcorn Time still under development in wake of recent troubles

Fraud Alert: BitcoinBlackFriday.info comes on online aaaand it’s a scam

BitcoinBlackFriday.com now live with over 150 deals in bitcoin

It’s Black Friday: Do you know who is DDoSing your servers? And how to stop them.

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