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

Coinbase to open first ‘licensed’ U.S.-based Bitcoin exchange

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Coinbase Inc., well-known bitcoin payment processor and web-wallet, has announced its intention to open the first licensed U.S.-based Bitcoin exchange on Monday. Following $106 million in backing, from sources including the New York Stock Exchange, the company believes it can now provide a …

Microsoft’s HoloLens headset is everything you expect of science fiction

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Today, Microsoft managed to capture the rapt attention of a million geeks—and everyone else—when the software giant unveiled its newest product: an augmented reality headset called HoloLens. Windows Holographic is essentially a head-mounted display acting as a pair of goggles that adds …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 January 21: Coinbase $75m funding round, ChangeTip Facebook support, EgoPay vanishes, GAW Miners SEC investigation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

This week saw Coinbase receive the largest funding round in the history of Bitcoin-related startups, which is an amazing thing following investment trends in the Bitcoin industry. And ChangeTip adds Facebook to its stable of social media that people can send/receive bitcoin …

China super-sizes 3D-printing with world’s first printed apartment building

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The utility of 3D printing continues to grow with leaps and bounds and the most recent invention, the world’s first 3D-printed apartment building, is on display now at China’s Suzhou Industrial Park. The building is the pet project of Shanghai-based company WinSun …

Lizard Squad DDoS-for-hire website compromised, stored passwords in plain text

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The Lizard Squad, an Internet mayhem group, has recently been caught with their proverbial pants down when an attacker compromised the customer database of the group’s recently released distributed denial of service (DDoS) for hire service. The service, the “Lizard Stresser,” allows …

U.K. teen arrested in connection with Christmas Day attacks on Xbox and PlayStaton

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The Christmas Day distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that took down Xbox Live and PlayStation Network are beginning to catch up with alleged perpetrators. An 18-year-old man was arrested on Friday in connection with the attacks, U.K. law enforcement agency South …

What you missed from Andreas M. Antonopoulos’s Reddit IamAMA on Bitcoin

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Andreas M. Antonopoulos, author of “Mastering Bitcoin” and permanent host of the Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast, did an IamAmA (I am X Ask me Anything) on Reddit. The questions ranged widely and rested heavily Bitcoin as a technology and a cultural phenomenon. …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 January 14: Bitcoin market plummets as value falls below $200

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Today’s news cycle is dominated by the market value of Bitcoin falling below $200, along with a smattering of other related news. Notably the trial of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged operator of The Silk Road named the Dread Pirate Roberts has begun. …

Lizard Squad and the DDoS-for-hire ecology explained by NexusGuard

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Recently, Internet mayhem group Lizard Squad made news by ruining Christmas Day for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network users. Afterwards the group unveiled a distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool offered to the public that allows people to use the DDoS infrastructure …

Minecraft saw 1.4 million concurrent users on Saturday

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The ever-growing phenomena of Minecraft continues to dominate its own niche of the industry and has already well solidified itself as a cultural touchstone. Even Microsoft Corporation’s purchase of Mojang AB, the Swedish development studio of the block-centric sandbox game, has not slowed …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Coinbase to open first ‘licensed’ U.S.-based Bitcoin exchange

Microsoft’s HoloLens headset is everything you expect of science fiction

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 January 21: Coinbase $75m funding round, ChangeTip Facebook support, EgoPay vanishes, GAW Miners SEC investigation

China super-sizes 3D-printing with world’s first printed apartment building

Lizard Squad DDoS-for-hire website compromised, stored passwords in plain text

U.K. teen arrested in connection with Christmas Day attacks on Xbox and PlayStaton

What you missed from Andreas M. Antonopoulos’s Reddit IamAMA on Bitcoin

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 January 14: Bitcoin market plummets as value falls below $200

Lizard Squad and the DDoS-for-hire ecology explained by NexusGuard

Minecraft saw 1.4 million concurrent users on Saturday

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