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

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 9: France shuts down illegal exchange confiscates coins, Spendabit launches, Xapo raises $40m

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

With so many e-retail sites starting to take bitcoins—from 1-800-Flowers to Newegg—Spendabit, a search engine, has stepped up to let people look for product they can buy with BTC. A wallet service, Xapo, just made Bitcoin history with the biggest total investment …

IEEE Spectrum’s 2014 ranking crowns Java king with interactive web app

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Interested in learning what tops the charts for programming languages devs are using? Check out IEEE Spectrum’s 2014 ranked listing web app—best part: it’s interactive and you can vote. Recently IEEE Spectrum released a list of the top ranked programming languages developers …

The next mission to Mars will be funded by selfies

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The first generation of space exploration had us glued to our TV screens watching the fruits of billions of dollars in government investment and the work of some of the world’s finest scientific minds. The second generation may be funded by selfies. …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 2: California updates law to allow Bitcoin, Newgg.com and 1-800-Flowers.com join the flock, Tim Draper wins the US Marshals BTC auction

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

It’s been an exciting week for the Bitcoin community with the Silk Road auction completion (and the anonymous bidder revealed as Tim Draper, see below.) The market value for BTC jumped from around $600 on Sunday, before the announcement, to over $650 …

California clears legal obstacles to Bitcoin’s use as money

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The LA Times reports that Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that removes obstacles to businesses legally accepting and trading in bitcoins in California. Assembly Bill 129 repeals part of California’s Corporations Code (Section 107) that restricted the use of bitcoins …

Logentries boosts DevOps log analysis with real-time team annotation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

DevOps teams live and thrive not just on their tools but their capability to communicate discoveries in a timely fashion. To do this, a multitude of DevOps tools are on the market, but Logentries, producer of a SaaS cloud-based log analysis tool, …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 25: Swarm redefines crypto-crowdfunding, Just-Dice suspends betting, one year of BitcoinAverage

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

This week’s Bitcoin Weekly has something for everyone. First, a new crypto-crowdfunding platform arrived earlier this month seeking to redefine how people raise funds with cryptocurrencies. Canada’s new Bitcoin-as-money regulations have already caused some casualties with Just-Dice and Doge-Dice suspending service to bring …

Nest’s new API puts smart devices and developers under one roof

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Yesterday, Nest announced the Nest Developer Program that will offer an application development interface, or API, so that third-party apps can hook up with Nest products. The new API is designed to open up Nest’s platform and allow it to talk to …

Cisco open-sources experimental small message encryption for cloud, IoT

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Networking giant Cisco is open-sourcing an experimental cipher that could help preserve privacy in the cloud and the Internet of Things. Cisco software engineer Sashank Dara describes the cipher as “FNR” (Flexible Naor and Reingold) and says that it’s a variant on …

City of Paradigm: Crowdfunding delivers community as well as funds

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Below is an excerpt from Kyt Dotson’s novel City of Paradigm, a science fiction tale about a fictional 21st century city situated somewhere in California. Each City of Paradigm column is two parts: an excerpt from the novel and an editorial describing …

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Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 9: France shuts down illegal exchange confiscates coins, Spendabit launches, Xapo raises $40m

IEEE Spectrum’s 2014 ranking crowns Java king with interactive web app

The next mission to Mars will be funded by selfies

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 July 2: California updates law to allow Bitcoin, Newgg.com and 1-800-Flowers.com join the flock, Tim Draper wins the US Marshals BTC auction

California clears legal obstacles to Bitcoin’s use as money

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 25: Swarm redefines crypto-crowdfunding, Just-Dice suspends betting, one year of BitcoinAverage

Nest’s new API puts smart devices and developers under one roof

Cisco open-sources experimental small message encryption for cloud, IoT

City of Paradigm: Crowdfunding delivers community as well as funds

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