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

‘Twas the Morning of Christmas and Steam Had an Outage

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Fortunately, for most gamers, this issue was over almost as soon as it was noticed. Today—of all days Christmas day when many e-gifts, some video games, will be unwrapped—the digital distribution network of Valve’s extremely popular Steam had a worldwide outage causing …

Elcomsoft’s Forensic Decryption Software Moves the Needle for Practical Cryptography

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Cryptography is the go-to defense for cybersecurity, it’s essentially the strongbox of the computing era—and just like a strongbox it’s not designed to keep the contents perfectly safe from all perpetrators, it’s designed to resist their attempts to get at it. It’s …

Video: 2012 Has Been An Amazing Year for Video Games

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The year of 2012 has seen a lot of industries go through a great deal of change and the state of the art is always shifting. Video games are no exception and 2012 has been an amazing year for looking at what …

Reports of Bitcoin’s Criminal Potential Have Been Exaggerated by CNN Fortune

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Yesterday, CNN Fortune published an article by Cyrus Sanati about Bitcoin entitled “Bitcoin looks primed for money laundering.” In what could be best described as an odd screed against Bitcoin and its potential financial impact on the world, it delves into places …

Salinas Police Department Uses ShareFile to Make Reports Smarter, Easier, and More Secure

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

When we look at technology that affects governments we generally think of the US federal government—a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy that crosses state lines and needs to communicate with itself constantly—but often we forget that small cities and even police departments are no …

How a Robot That Plays Angry Birds Can Aid Development and Quality Assurance

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

This story starts in an interesting place: the quest to produce a robot that plays Angry Birds; but it ends in a place very familiar with anyone who has ever worked in product testing: a robot that does the tedious task of …

Digital Currency Outfit Bitcoin-Central Makes Milestone Towards Becoming Like a Bank

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Contrary to reporting this week (BBC), Bitcoin-Central did not gain the ability to act like an actual bank—but what they’ve gained is no less fundamental a milestone for a Bitcoin outfit. By partnering with Aqoba, which is a payment services provider capable …

DevOps Executive Spotlight: Icenium’s Doug Seven, Executive VP of Telerik

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Not too long ago, DevOpsANGLE spent a moment to examine Icenium from Telerik—a cloud-to-developer environment that makes a great tool for any mobile development shop to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to producing and maintaining mobile apps—and now it’s …

Google Celebrates Ada Lovelace With a Beautiful Doodle

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

If you missed it, Google has celebrated the 197th birthday of Ada Lovelace with a beautiful Google doodle. She is often referred to the first programmer and is chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general purpose computer, the …

Appthority Knows What Business is Thinking About App Security

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Mobile development right now is fundamentally fragmented between a multitude of devices and a powerful ecology of vendors and platforms—on the cultural side, the rise of BYOD and personal connectivity has been a constant thorn in the side of corporate IT. Developers …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

‘Twas the Morning of Christmas and Steam Had an Outage

Elcomsoft’s Forensic Decryption Software Moves the Needle for Practical Cryptography

Video: 2012 Has Been An Amazing Year for Video Games

Reports of Bitcoin’s Criminal Potential Have Been Exaggerated by CNN Fortune

Salinas Police Department Uses ShareFile to Make Reports Smarter, Easier, and More Secure

How a Robot That Plays Angry Birds Can Aid Development and Quality Assurance

Digital Currency Outfit Bitcoin-Central Makes Milestone Towards Becoming Like a Bank

DevOps Executive Spotlight: Icenium’s Doug Seven, Executive VP of Telerik

Google Celebrates Ada Lovelace With a Beautiful Doodle

Appthority Knows What Business is Thinking About App Security

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