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

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 …

The U.S. Post Office looks to the Internet of Things for solutions

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The recent woes of the United States Postal Service (USPS) are well known, but that doesn’t mean the service can’t find a friend in digital messaging. The USPS’s Office of Inspector General is offering up to $100,000 to any supplier that can …

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 18th: BitPay announces the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl, Expedia to take BTC for hotels, GHash.IO sneaks up on 51% again

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

This week has seen a lot of interesting news and some drama from the world of Bitcoin. BitPay has made news by announcing the world’s first upcoming “Bitcoin Bowl” and also brought news of TigerDirect expanding bitcoin payments onto their Canadian website. …

Machine Learning for the cloud on its way to Microsoft Azure

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

In July, Microsoft plans to unveil a preview of its Machine-Learning-as-a-Service platform, hosted on Windows Azure. The platform is expected to leverage Microsoft’s powerful Azure cloud platform to provide powerful predictive analytics services and off premises data crunching. Microsoft calls this new …

US government prepares to auction $17 million worth of Silk Road bitcoins

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The US Marshals are preparing to auction off the bitcoins seized from the raid of anonymous, black market site Silk Road. According to the asset forfeiture auction document, the auction will take place on June 27th and winners will be notified on …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

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

The U.S. Post Office looks to the Internet of Things for solutions

Bitcoin Weekly 2014 June 18th: BitPay announces the Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl, Expedia to take BTC for hotels, GHash.IO sneaks up on 51% again

Machine Learning for the cloud on its way to Microsoft Azure

US government prepares to auction $17 million worth of Silk Road bitcoins

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