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

Microtransactions coming soon to Blizzard’s Diablo 3, just not for Americans

NEWS By KYT DOTSON11 YEARS AGO

Diablo III has a long, storied history now of being a labor of love for Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., which launched the title in May 2012. From the outset, Diablo III was beset with server troubles at launch, and hosted an auction house …

Lizard Squad rebrand with Silk Road replacement to become drug kingpins?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

After becoming infamous on the Internet for the Christmas Day siege of Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, which knocked the services offline, Lizard Squad quickly launched a DDoS-for-hire Lizard Stresser. The Internet mayhem group used their newfound notoriety to market this …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 18: Bitcoin exchanges get hacked and close, Porn.com 5% BTC sales, Bitcoin Core 0.10.0

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

This week starts with grim news for the Bitcoin exchange market space with 2015 seeing over five exchanges suspending or shuttering services, and several of them after suffering security compromises. Amid the exchanges suspending or closing includes Neagio, Vault of Satoshi, CAVIRTEX, …

Lizard Squad is back: Xbox Live and Daybreak Games Company face DDoS battering

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The great Christmas Day siege of Xbox and PlayStation doesn’t seem to be enough for notorious Internet mayhem group Lizard Squad who have continued their campaign of denial of service attacks against gaming companies. The crew is back and has claimed credit …

Multiple Bitcoin exchanges go offline over weekend, several hacked: BTER.com, Exco.in, HitBTC

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Over the past week several Bitcoin exchange services suffered time offline. BTER.com reported a loss of 7170 BTC due to a hack, complaints report that HitBTC is experiencing a service interruption, and Exco.in suspended operation after a DDoS attack and hack. BTER.com …

Blizzard’s virtual pet goat raises $1.9 million for Ebola charity

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

During December 2014, World of Warcraft players raised $1.9 million by buying a special charity pet in game. Agri, a $10 blue goat stylized after the draenei race from the game, went on sale December 3rd and December 31st last year. 100 percent …

Meet Spot: Boston Dynamics’s kickable robot dog

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The ongoing work by Boston Dynamics, a leading engineering and robotics design company owned by Google Inc., on our future robot overlords continues apace. In a video released by the company, robots mimicking uncanny, skeletal decapitated deer (or perhaps dogs) can be …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Microtransactions coming soon to Blizzard’s Diablo 3, just not for Americans

Lizard Squad rebrand with Silk Road replacement to become drug kingpins?

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 18: Bitcoin exchanges get hacked and close, Porn.com 5% BTC sales, Bitcoin Core 0.10.0

Lizard Squad is back: Xbox Live and Daybreak Games Company face DDoS battering

Multiple Bitcoin exchanges go offline over weekend, several hacked: BTER.com, Exco.in, HitBTC

Blizzard’s virtual pet goat raises $1.9 million for Ebola charity

Meet Spot: Boston Dynamics’s kickable robot dog

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 11: How did The Silk Road Trial change perception of Bitcoin?

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