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

Has a New Yorker Reporter Found Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin has its own version of Batman and a New Yorker reporter has gone out hunting for the cryptocurrency’s Bruce Wayne. It’s been three years since the inception and introduction of Bitcoin to the world and while it started out extremely fringe …

Jason Andersen at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Bringing Java to PaaS with JBoss

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

John Furrier of SiliconANGLE and Dave Vellante of Wikibon sat down with Jason Andersen, the Product Line Developer, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform & Developer Studio, a division of Red Hat to speak about JBoss, the cloud, and his current strategy for approaching …

Klout vs. Kred, the new Social Media Influence Metric on the Block

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

A new service is being launched by social media analyst industry leader PeopleBrowsr intended to compete with other influence-metric social media services like Klout—in fact, it looks exactly like a competitor directly to Klout. Just with a different algorithm and metric tracking …

New NFC Standard Brings Simple Peer-to-Peer Communication Within Easy Reach

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Lately, Near-Field Communications (NFC) news has been a little bit dry. The technology isn’t any longer in its infancy, but now that it’s starting to crawl it’s getting into everything (perhaps its time we put safety covers on the outlets and bundled …

Another One Bites the Dust, Microsoft Burns Down Kelihos Botnet

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

It’s been only a week since Microsoft put the final stamp on their case against the Rustock botnet, and they’ve already pounced again—this time on equally notorious prey: the Kelihos network. In a particularly amusing twist of fate, Kelihos is also called …

Bitcoin 0.4.0 Will Secure Your Wallet With Native Encrpytion

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

This major release to the Bitcoin client hit the digital stacks September 23, 2011 and it includes a long-awaited security feature: encrypted wallets. Of late, users of the cryptocurrency have suffered increased attempts by outside parties to get at the wallets of …

FBI Arrests of Suspected LulzSec, Anonymous Hackers Sweep the U.S.

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

News and speculation have been all a twitter this morning with the revelation that the FBI has arrested two alleged members of the group LulzSec and the hacktivist collective Anonymous on Thursday morning in Tempe, Arizona and San Francisco, California. Court documents …

Is that Bear a Kinect Controller or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Anyone who hasn’t experienced it yet should go to Google Maps, find a local mall with a Build-a-Bear Workshop and go make a bear. Sure, the stuffed little adorables can be a little bit on the expensive side, but it’s an experience …

Xbox Leads the Personal Cloud to the Living Room with Comcast Cable

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Even two years ago, Microsoft may have realized that videogame consoles are a brilliant stalking horse for bringing influence into the living room. With the set-top-box wars heating up, and the fact that videogame consoles often outnumber even VCRs and DVRs in …

Bitcoinica Growing Pains Result in Data Errors

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Last week, I reported on an emerging trading platform for Bitcoin, Bitcoinica, that presented itself as a Forex service and did so without trading any bitcoins with customers. The Bitcoin service runs in the cloud and has a lot of interesting elements …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Has a New Yorker Reporter Found Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto?

New NFC Standard Brings Simple Peer-to-Peer Communication Within Easy Reach

Another One Bites the Dust, Microsoft Burns Down Kelihos Botnet

Bitcoin 0.4.0 Will Secure Your Wallet With Native Encrpytion

FBI Arrests of Suspected LulzSec, Anonymous Hackers Sweep the U.S.

Is that Bear a Kinect Controller or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

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