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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Cloudera CTO Amr Awadallah Gives a Glimpse of Hadoop and Gaming, Modern Warfare

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

John Furrier and Dave Vellante had the CTO and cofounder of Cloudera, Amr Awadallah, in theCube today to speak about the integration of Hadoop and how he sees the future lifting into the clouds. In the midst of discussion about Cloudera and …

Zynga Reschedules Initial Public Offering for Shortly After Thanksgiving

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Rumors of Zynga’s pre-Thanksgiving IPO plans from not too long ago may have been exaggerated, new news on the subject, according to two people who spoke with Bloomberg, suggests that they’re headed instead for an IPO immediately following Turkey Day. The opportune …

PC Gamers Change Your Pants: Steam’s Forums Hacked

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

And by pants, I mean passwords. It looks like reports have been flying all morning that Steam’s forums have been hacked. Steam is an online community and gaming service that provides digital downloads of popular games from the currently popular Batman: Arkham …

MIT Server Becomes Host to Seething DoS and Vulnerability Scanner Suite Infection

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Recently, a server at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been found host to a heavy duty suite of attack tools and used for vulnerability scanning and compromises. Researchers at Bitdefender caught it attempting to inject malware code into unprotected sites on …

Kinect Sales Hit Milestone of 10m Units Sold Total

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Microsoft has celebrated the first birthday of Kinect by announcing a lifetime sales of 10m units moved. This is somewhat in contrast to the astonishing opening sales that gave it 8m total unit sales in the first 60 days—a fact that landed …

Google Does a Barrel Roll and Revamps “Freshness” Search Algorithm

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It’s been a fun week for Google with the discovery of a cute web FX trick that causes the search engine to “do a barrel roll” and the revamp of their algorithm that will boost the likelihood that fresher content will find …

Sony Predicts Over $1.1 Billion Full-Year Net Loss After Numerous Setbacks

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The year of 2011 has been extremely harsh for Sony and it’s been peppered with cataclysm and catastrophe. Starting with Japan’s earthquake and the resulting the tsunami that shut down production at 10 factories in March. Shortly thereafter, the PlayStation Network suffered …

Google+ Package Arrives on the Doorstep of YouTube and Chrome

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Ever since its debutante unveiling at the social media prom, Google+ has had a bit of a rocky start and what have felt like a few stumbles. Google is attempting to bring the service into the mainstream and it must complete with …

DevilRobber Virus Usurps Mac Processing Power to Mine Bitcoins

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

A new Mac OS Trojan has been caught in the wild and this time, instead of just stealing sensitive information from infected computers, it also surreptitiously steals processing power from the computer in order to mine bitcoins. Across the Bitcoin community, GPUs …

Gerald Kleyn in theCube on HP’s Labs Discovery at Project Moonshot Press Event

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Dave Vellante and John Furrier interviewed Gerald Kleyn, Program Director, Hyperscale Engineering, about how HP’s Lab Discovery assists customers when it comes to partner’s new solutions and chips. He’s speaking after the press gathering involving HP’s Project Moonshot. The initiative involves low-power …

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Latest from Kyt Dotson

MIT Server Becomes Host to Seething DoS and Vulnerability Scanner Suite Infection

Kinect Sales Hit Milestone of 10m Units Sold Total

Google Does a Barrel Roll and Revamps “Freshness” Search Algorithm

Sony Predicts Over $1.1 Billion Full-Year Net Loss After Numerous Setbacks

DevilRobber Virus Usurps Mac Processing Power to Mine Bitcoins

Gerald Kleyn in theCube on HP’s Labs Discovery at Project Moonshot Press Event

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