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

Activision Foundering with Social Media: Call of Duty Elite Suffers Setbacks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Call of Duty Elite emerged alongside Activision’s much anticipated launch of Modern Warfare 3; the service would merge social and stat tracking for players to keep abreast of the exploits of friends and teammates. However, the service is suffering a multitude of …

Occupy World of Warcraft: The Allure of Virtual Gold

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

With the Occupy Wall Street protests reaching the hearts and minds of millions and raising the specter of the difference between the haves and the have-nots, the economy of many nation-states come into question. Much of the wealth of the world is …

World of Warcraft Subscriptions Plummet Ten Percent; Activision-Blizzard Triples Profits

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

During an investor call for Activision-Blizzard revealed some interesting news about the overall health of the massively popular massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft. Blizzard’s MMO lost more subscribers than previous years and has hit its all-time-low from 11.4 million in …

Facebook Gore-Porn Account Hijacking Epidemic Reaches a Fever Pitch

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It’s as if the circus of pornographic horrors has marched into the hallowed, staid halls of Facebook, painting over the frescoes and setting up shops of debauchery on every corner. A new exploit, slowly gathering steam over the past few days, has …

Bitcoin Wallet Encryption Bug Discovered in Official Client

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

News is circulating the Internet right now that a serious bug has been discovered in the newly minted “encrypt wallet” functionality of the official client for Bitcoin versions 0.4 and 0.5. The private keys may be left unencrypted in the wallet.dat file …

Syria Spy Tech May Be Powered By NetApp, U.S. Senators Seek Investigation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Amid technology companies being implicated in oppression and censorship, U.S. lawmakers are seeking an investigation against NetApp for their potential role in Internet-surveillance infrastructure being raised in Syria after the recent political upheaval. A recent article in Bloomberg reveals that Mark Kirk …

Microsoft Xbox 360 “Madrid” Beta Dashboard Update Rolls Out

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Thursday, Microsoft announced that it will begin to push out a beta preview of it’s new Xbox 360 code-name “Madrid” dashboard. The beta preview will give a select-few beta testers access to the new dashboard so that they can see what’s happening …

Steam’s User Database Compromised, Possible Credit-Card Information Theft

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Earlier this week it came to our attention that Valve’s video game digital download service, Steam, had suffered an intrusion on its user forums—it has now come to our attention, via a message sent from Valve Corporation head Gabe Newell that states …

Xbox.com Dashboard Goes Social with Upcoming Renovation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Microsoft is seeking to bring the social element of Xbox LIVE front-and-center to start marching the users of their gaming network to the beat of the same drum—and that drum is all about keeping in touch and bringing out the gamer community. …

Amy O’Connor in theCube: Nokia Looks to Hadoop for Transforming Data Solutions and Consumer Apps

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The troubles facing smartphone manufacturer Nokia have been front and center a lot lately so seeing them at Hadoop World 2011 shines a light on their future intent. Nokia Senior Director of Analytics, Amy O’Connor, came into theCube for an interview with …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Occupy World of Warcraft: The Allure of Virtual Gold

World of Warcraft Subscriptions Plummet Ten Percent; Activision-Blizzard Triples Profits

Facebook Gore-Porn Account Hijacking Epidemic Reaches a Fever Pitch

Bitcoin Wallet Encryption Bug Discovered in Official Client

Syria Spy Tech May Be Powered By NetApp, U.S. Senators Seek Investigation

Microsoft Xbox 360 “Madrid” Beta Dashboard Update Rolls Out

Steam’s User Database Compromised, Possible Credit-Card Information Theft

Amy O’Connor in theCube: Nokia Looks to Hadoop for Transforming Data Solutions and Consumer Apps

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