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

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and the Live Streaming Revolution for Gaming

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Social media and video has an interesting culture when it comes to people sharing their lives what started with people pushing images from phones to services such as Instragram and the webcam revolution with YouTube has become also a utopia for gamers. …

Xbox LIVE Goes Political with Real-Time Polling Capability for the 2012 Elections

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Microsoft is seeking to become the first limb of the future AllThing (a political body that consisted of the voting minds of an entire population seen in Dan Simmons’s Hyperion) by putting the ability to do live polling in the hands of …

National Watchdogs Becoming Concerned Over Money Laundering Potential of Bitcoin, Virtual Currencies

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The Australian anti-money-laundering watchdog the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (or AUSTRAC) issued a report in July that assigned a higher priority of concern to virtual currencies such as World of Warcraft gold and Bitcoin. This isn’t something entirely unexpected by …

Google and Boingo Extend the Reach of Free Wi-Fi in NYC for the Summer

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Courtesy of Google Offers, numerous New York City subway stations will be receiving free Wi-Fi via Boingo. The idea is to provide the Wi-Fi to customers with an advertising subtext that permits local businesses to push marketing spiels to wireless users in …

The Week Anonymous Didn’t Hack Sony’s PlayStation Network (Again)

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

It’s only been a year now, but the lingering sting of when the PlayStation Network was taken offline by hackers and the potential involvement of Anonymous in the initial hack still aches like a sore tendon. As a result, when rumors arise …

What Happened to OnLive? Cloud Gaming Outfit Closes Up Shop and Evaporates

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Friday last week wasn’t much of a TGIF for cloud-based gaming company OnLive employees as the company laid off its entire staff and closed its doors. According to an article in Polygon this caught the entire gaming industry by surprise and the …

Bitcoin: Feeding the Low-Overhead Revolution One Darknet at a Time

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Whenever Bitcoin is brought up two thoughts often leap into the same arena at the same time one that involves the strange enigma of economics and the other that speaks to the freedom-loving cryptogeek in every Internet activist. So when I stumbled …

Microsoft Too Can Get Hip with MAKER Culture but It’s Weak MAKE-fu

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Innovation is a fleeting firefly chased by every company and corporation, but often its an ideal arising out of a sudden leap forward by an individual and not part of the everyday grind. In many ways, this is why I gravitate towards …

North American Blizzard Players Swept Up in Hack that Also Breached Authenticators

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Blizzard, the well known publisher of super-popular games such as World of Warcraft and Diablo 3, has suffered a breach—as a result, before jumping back into the game (or if you’re a hardcore gaming before doing anything) you should log into the …

Anonymous Strikes Back Against Ukrainian Government over BitTorrent with #OpDemonoid

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

The Anonymous hacktivist collective has pulled their try-hard pants on and taken their stomping books to the Ukrainian government over the takedown of the popular BitTorrent tracker Demonoid. As reported by TorrentFreak, the raid appears to have been done at the behest …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

National Watchdogs Becoming Concerned Over Money Laundering Potential of Bitcoin, Virtual Currencies

Google and Boingo Extend the Reach of Free Wi-Fi in NYC for the Summer

The Week Anonymous Didn’t Hack Sony’s PlayStation Network (Again)

Bitcoin: Feeding the Low-Overhead Revolution One Darknet at a Time

Microsoft Too Can Get Hip with MAKER Culture but It’s Weak MAKE-fu

North American Blizzard Players Swept Up in Hack that Also Breached Authenticators

Anonymous Strikes Back Against Ukrainian Government over BitTorrent with #OpDemonoid

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