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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.

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US Files for Extradition of Megaupload Suspects at Last Minute

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Just when you thought the Megaupload saga has reached a fever pitch and couldn’t climb any further up drama mountain, US authorities waited until the eleventh-hour to file extradition papers on the suspects in the case. The United Statesas officially requested the …

CloudFlare Speaks Out About Their Experience Hosting LulzSec

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

“You have my permission. — Jack Sparrow” That’s what a representative of LulzSec told CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince when he asked permission to tell the tale of rough water and a siege on the cyberseas that resulted from his company protecting the …

Game Dev Starbreeze Reaches Out to Pirates, Offers Jobs

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Alongside the release of the Xbox 360 version of EA’s Syndicate came the expected releases from the warez Scene. With each upcoming release of a game, the warez community does its best to beat the release date to the wires of the …

Microsoft’s Windows Azure Experiences Outage

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Reports of Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform having a bad day apparently cannot be exaggerated enough—customers are reporting that the system has been all-but-entirely offline for hours. According to The Register, the problems began around 9 p.m. ET on February 28 and …

Kinect-enabled Shopping Cart May Aid Shoppers at Whole Foods

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Now that Microsoft has released their development kit that brings Kinect software to Windows, many venues are beginning to look for applications for the video game sensor. Right now, Whole Foods is looking into a prototype that would use a Kinect system …

ZeuS Trojan Botnet Learns a New Trick: Peer-to-Peer

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In what seems to be the next evolution of malware, the Zeusbot/SpyEye Trojan network has been discovered in the wild that doesn’t rely on a centralized command-and-control server—instead, the new variants use a peer-to-peer architecture to get the job done. According an …

The Pirate Scene Nimbly Adopts New x264 Video Codec

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Where it might take giant corporations years to come to a conclusion on a major standards change, pirates from the video scene lead to an implementation in a matter of days, a source tells SiliconANGLE. Over the years, the video scene for …

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