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

Zynga the Dirty Faced Neighborhood Scoundrel

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

When it comes to casual massively multiplayer games distributed over social media like Facebook, Zynga is the go-to-developer; but when it comes to the treatment of employees and corporate culture, they’re woefully behind the mark. Right now the social media gaming company …

Free-to-play MMO Spending Up 24 Percent in the US; DC Universe Online Revenue Leaps 700 Percent After Going F2P

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It’s a jungle out there for massively multiplayer online gaming and the tigers like World of Warcraft are still prowling with their 7 year age and 10.3 million paying subscribers, but what does this mean for the smaller outfits? Well, it looks …

Department of Homeland Security Slams Reports of Cyber Sabotage at Illinois Water Pump

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The Department of Homeland Security has revved up their engines to run circles around widespread media reports that hackers had taken control of a water pumping station in Springfield, Illinois. The report of the hacking incident suggested that Russian IP addresses had …

Study: Gamer Girls Who Play Online Enjoy More Sex

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

If you’re a woman, a video gamer, and enjoy online gaming chances are you enjoy more sex than your non-gaming counterparts. At least that’s what a study run by Harris Interactive on behalf of GameHouse according to this Forbes article on the …

Dried Strawberries Bitcoin Style, Uses Heat from a Mining Rig

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

An enterprising grocer, and Bitcoin miner, from Canada has decided to put the waste-heat from his or her mining rig to good use and produced a product with it: dried strawberries. BetaBeat caught the news from a post on Reddit where a …

Chaos Computer Club Teaches German Airports that Good Security isn’t RFID Deep

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It looks like the Chaos Computer Club are at it again and recently revealed during a German TV programme entitled “Data theft via wireless – security risks at German airports” that their airports have a massive security hole. The threat is a …

World of Warcraft Turns 7: Players Blow out Candles, Eat Cake

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The world of massively-multiplayer online (MMO) gaming still feels like it’s in its infancy even while Activision-Blizzard’s most popular MMO World of Warcraft has reached the milestone of seven years running. A significant portion of the gaming population spend hours in games …

Kinect Developers Start Your Compilers: Microsoft to Launch Accelerator Program

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Developers seeking to take advantage of Kinect and Natural User Interface technology might just get a boost up from Microsoft this coming spring. The software giant has begun signups for their Kinect Accelerator program. The company will be accepting 10 best-suited startups …

Infrastructure Cybersecurity Comes to the Forefront with Illinois Water Pump Sabotage Hack

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Joe Weiss, a managing partner for Applied Control Solutions, published barebones information on a hack damaging a city water pump that the US Department of Homeland Security indicated happened in Springfield, Illinois. The Register caught the story and unravels it a bit. …

500,000 Bitcoins Transferred in One Exchange

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

This isn’t exactly big news on the Bitcoin front, but it’s still a curiosity worth noting. Yesterday, Nov 16, the coffers of a Bitcoin wallet transferred five-hundred thousand bitcoins from one account to another. This exchange had been caught and broadcast by …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Department of Homeland Security Slams Reports of Cyber Sabotage at Illinois Water Pump

Study: Gamer Girls Who Play Online Enjoy More Sex

Dried Strawberries Bitcoin Style, Uses Heat from a Mining Rig

Chaos Computer Club Teaches German Airports that Good Security isn’t RFID Deep

World of Warcraft Turns 7: Players Blow out Candles, Eat Cake

Kinect Developers Start Your Compilers: Microsoft to Launch Accelerator Program

Infrastructure Cybersecurity Comes to the Forefront with Illinois Water Pump Sabotage Hack

500,000 Bitcoins Transferred in One Exchange

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