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

Major Cable ISPs Challenge Xbox on its Own Turf with Cloud Gaming

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

On the cusp of cloud-gaming outfit OnLive going down in flames and evaporating, it appears that major ISPs are looking into their own cloud-gaming delivery services to players who use Internet-enabled devices such as smart TVs. According to a report in Bloomberg, …

Augmented Reality Welding Helmet Prototypes How Awesome the Technology Can Get

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

While Google Glass has gotten a lot of press lately for doing augmented reality for consumers, there’s a great deal of other applications that require an augmentation of human vision. One such application is welding: a bright light sits in front of …

DevOps Answers: Should Developers Install Software on Production Themselves?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The connection between development and operations in IT means that developers and sysadmins get a lot more cozy in order to make sure that everything runs a great deal more smoothly. However, while this means breaking down a lot of bureaucratic barriers, …

Facebook Returns to the Nymwar: Users Asked to Snitch on Friends Not Using Real Names

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The fight over the ability to maintain a type of anonymity on social media originally spoken of as fiascos surrounding “Real Name policies” and dubbed the “Nymwar” (after psudeonym) has returned to the table once again as Facebook opened up another salvo. …

HoneyMap: Visualizing Malware Attacks Across the Globe with the Honeynet Project

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The Honeynet Project is making some real waves in the malware community by setting up “sensors” across the Internet (in the fashion of honeypot servers pretending to be possible targets) in order to track the spread and distribution of malware. Now, they’ve …

Inventive Redditor Builds Xbox 360 Into a Laptop Case and Walks into a Bar

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Interestingly, it’s not a joke, yet that is the punch line for this inventive marvel. Most game consoles are a little bit less-than-portable—that’s why the mobile market is awash with handhelds that act like consoles but run in their own little world. …

Gaming Giant King.com Hooks into Cloudera Hadoop to Understand Players

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

King.com is a European powerhouse for mobile and web gaming that receives over half of its traffic from Facebook. As a platform, mobile gaming is highly monetized and looking at outfits like Zynga it’s also highly lucrative (although still a rocky place …

BitInstant’s CEO Goes to Brazil for Money Conference Returns With ‘World’s Current Monetary System is Inferior to Bitcoin’

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem and Erik Voorhees went down to Rio de Janeiro for the annual Global Payments Forum held by the North American Payments Association (NACHA) to speak about Bitcoin’s niche as “virtual currency.” In a post on BitInstant’s blog Voorhees …

Anonymous ‘Spokesman’ Barrett Brown Raided by FBI During Recorded Chat Session

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

In what would make the second time this year, Barrett Brown was raided by the FBI. This time the event happened “on camera” and a portion of it was recorded during a live video chat where he was holding a discussion with …

Blizzard Caught with Screenshots Around their Ankles Over World of Warcraft Watermarks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Players of the ever-popular World of Warcraft developed by Blizzard has been caught watermarking screenshots taken from within the game bringing to light privacy issues with playing online games and sharing of images taken within them. Screenshots from the wildly popular MMO …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Major Cable ISPs Challenge Xbox on its Own Turf with Cloud Gaming

Augmented Reality Welding Helmet Prototypes How Awesome the Technology Can Get

DevOps Answers: Should Developers Install Software on Production Themselves?

HoneyMap: Visualizing Malware Attacks Across the Globe with the Honeynet Project

Inventive Redditor Builds Xbox 360 Into a Laptop Case and Walks into a Bar

BitInstant’s CEO Goes to Brazil for Money Conference Returns With ‘World’s Current Monetary System is Inferior to Bitcoin’

Anonymous ‘Spokesman’ Barrett Brown Raided by FBI During Recorded Chat Session

Blizzard Caught with Screenshots Around their Ankles Over World of Warcraft Watermarks

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