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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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Patreon hacked: User names, email and mailing addresses compromised

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Go-to site for people to support their favorite artists and Internet personalities Patreon, Inc. announced late last night that the website’s database had been compromised. According to a security advisory released at the time, the information accessed included “registered names, email addresses, …

Akamai uncovers Linux Trojan XOR botnet capable of 150 Gbps attacks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

This week, Internet content delivery service Akamai Technologies, Inc. published a cybersecurity advisory revealing a staggering new distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack botnet named XOR that is capable of attacks in excess of 150 gigabytes per second (Gbps). The botnet is made …

Surprise Microsoft VR Kit may challenge Google Cardboard

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

While Microsoft is working hard to produce technologies for augmented reality (AR) with its amazing HoloLens–which would likely supplant Google, Inc.’s Google Glass–the software giant may be also making inroads into AR’s near cousin virtual reality (VR). Thurrott.com author Brad Sams spotted …

Rainforest QA changes DevOps testing by crowdsourcing humans

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Rainforest QA (CLDRDR, Inc. d/b/a Rainforest) is a company looking to change the way that companies approach software testing by adding a human element. The company uses a stable of human workers fielded from crowdsourced manpower to provide parallel automated testing and …

U.S. Marines take Google’s robot dog ‘Spot’ for a walk

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Boston Dynamics, subsidiary of Google Inc. (soon to be “Alphabet”) has produced some amazing robotic creations–amid them is Spot, a robotic “dog” designed for traversing different types of terrain. This week, reports Ars Technica, the U.S. Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia …

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