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

The Impact of Megaupload’s “Mega-Downfall” on Sharing in the Cloud

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

With the fall of Megaupload.com to the United States government in an action that has taken them entirely offline—in a move yet unprecedented by the US against a foreign site—it brings to mind what sort of effect this might have on other …

3D Printers are Only the Vanguard for the Era of the Physible

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

As we adventure into our new-found future and legislation struggles to keep up with technology with Big Media companies fighting tooth and nail against digital copying what happens when we invent an era where physical copying is possible. This is the world of futurism …

Digital Sales Continue to Bloom but Big Music is Stuck in the Past

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Digital distribution and sales continue to move forward and have found themselves a bright niche in our Internet-connected world. As a result of having almost instant access to downloadable music and music services have caused people to flock to them and it’s …

Anonymous Deletes CBS.com and Downs Universal in #OpMegaupload

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Sunday brought some strange events to the Internet and one of them happens to be that hackers believed aligned with Anonymous made it look as if hackers broke into CBS.com and deleted the contents. This isn’t the usual DDoS attack washing a …

Megaupload.com Debacle Spawns Largest Anonymous DDoS Attack Yet

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Yesterday, authorities announced a raid on Megaupload—a now popular Hong Kong-based file sharing site locked in a dramatic legal spat with Universal—a mere day after the highly publicized web-wide SOPA blackout date. The action brought the hactivist collective Anonymous buzzing down from …

GM Innovates Augmented Reality “Smart Glass” Technology for Back Seat Drivers

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

In what feels like it could be a better innovation for windscreen dashboard gauges, Detroit-based General Motors is pushing forward a program to make backseat riders less bored during a drive. Looking at psychological reports that passengers in the backseat feel disconnected …

Bitcoin Sneaks Into Popular TV Drama via The Good Wife

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It’s always a good sign when a particular underground innovation finds its way into popular media—and although I’ve been wondering when it would show up on “ripped from the headlines” Law & Order as some sort of badly designed drama it appeared on CBS’s …

Israel vs. Saudi Arabia Hacks Heating Up as Israeli Hackers Respond In Kind

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Monday, we reported that Saudi Arabian hackers—one under the handle of ox0mar and with the group named Group-xp—hit Israeli financial sector websites and an airline carrier causing both considerable lag but did not take them offline. This came shortly after last week’s …

CloudFlare Develops Anti-SOPA/PROTECT-IP App Just in Time for Blackout

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Tomorrow will be a big day for sites protesting against the “Stop Online Piracy Act” dubbed the “Internet blacklist bill” by opponents and the PROTECT-IP bill. January 18 is the date set by numerous large websites and social media to darken themselves …

We’re Waiting: Hacker Threatened to Release Full Source Code for Norton Antivirus

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Saturday, a hacker going by the handle of Yama Tough threatened via Twitter that they would release the source code of Symantec’s flagship antivirus software product Norton Antivirus on Tuesday. “This coming Tuesday behold the full Norton Antivirus 1,7Gb src, the rest …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

3D Printers are Only the Vanguard for the Era of the Physible

Anonymous Deletes CBS.com and Downs Universal in #OpMegaupload

Megaupload.com Debacle Spawns Largest Anonymous DDoS Attack Yet

GM Innovates Augmented Reality “Smart Glass” Technology for Back Seat Drivers

Bitcoin Sneaks Into Popular TV Drama via The Good Wife

We’re Waiting: Hacker Threatened to Release Full Source Code for Norton Antivirus

LATEST FROM THECUBE

UPCOMING CUBE EVENTS

RECENT CUBE EVENTS

SEMICON West 2026

AI Data Pipeline Forum 2026

Infor Velocity Week 2026

Dell AI Data Platform Event: From Ambition to AI at Scale 2026

Fully Connected 2026

SIGN IN

Bio

Ethics statement

Contact us

Partner with us

Contact us

Guest inquiry