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

Omega2, $5 Linux platform computer for IoT projects, exceeds $450k in Kickstarter funding

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

The Omega2 set out to produce an extremely cheap, extensible Linux computer designed for Internet of Things (IoT) projects with a Kickstarter campaign asking for only $15,000. Now, with only for days remaining in the campaign, the Omega2 team is set to receive over $450,000 …

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 17: Bitfinex hack interim report, KeepKey wallet does ShapeShift trades, Copay users can purchase Amazon gift cards

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

It’s the week of wallets in the Bitcoin ecosystem with KeepKey and BitPay’s Copay both making announcements. The hardware wallet KeepKey just announced a firmware change that allows wallet users to make trades on the ShapeShift cryptocurrency exchange platform (currently for Bitcoin, …

DDoSCoin rewards attackers with a cryptocurrency for blasting a website

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

Two researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Michigan released a white paper [PDF] describing a new type of cryptocurrency. It’s called DDoSCoin and it would pay people who run nodes in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) …

myDevices partners with Arduino to jumpstart Internet of Things project development

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

This week, Internet of Things (IoT) company myDevices (division of Avanquest North America Inc.), developer of Cayenne (a drag-and-drop IoT project builder), announced a partnership with Adruino S.r.L., leading open source hardware and software ecosystem for embedded and microcontroller projects. As a …

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 10: Bitfinex trading coming back online, App Store fake Bitcoin apps, Kim Dotcom Megaupload Bitcache talk

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

Bitfinex is big news this week, especially after the hack last week, and the company has begun reporting that it expects to bring most of its trading platform back online along with deposits. The iTunes App Store is still having troubles with …

Delta Air Lines flight cancellations possibly caused by data center fire

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

Earlier today, Delta Air Lines, Inc. grounded all flights nationwide–domestic and international–due to a power failure at its Atlanta data center. The outage lasted six hours ending around 8:40 a.m ET, although at that time Delta noted that only “limited” flights would be …

Numerous fake Bitcoin wallet apps discovered in Apple iTunes App Store

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

A number of fake Bitcoin wallet mobile apps have been added to the iTunes App Store run by Apple, Inc. very recently, according to a representative from Breadwallet LLC who posted on Reddit. The fake wallets use the same, or very similar, …

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 3: Bitfinex loses 119,756 BTC in theft, Blockstream acquires GreenAddress, Brave browser raises $4.5 million

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

This week, Hong Kong-based Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex suffered a major security breach that led to the theft of over 119,000 BTC. The hack also coincides with a sudden drop in the USD-BTC market value of almost 20 percent. The company has released …

Mozilla begins roll-out of multi-process support and mandatory add-on signing in Firefox

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

Today, Mozilla Corp announced the general availability of Firefox 48, an update that will include new security and developer features that can take advantage of multi-process support and add-on signing. Although only a few users will initially receive the multi-process advantage with …

Brave ad-blocking browser raises $4.5 million in preparation for 1.0 launch

NEWS By KYT DOTSON10 YEARS AGO

Brave Software, Inc., a startup dedicated to reinventing the web browser to produce a faster, more stable, privacy-centric and secure software, today announced it has raised $4.5 million in a seed round from venture capital firms and angel investors. Aside from integrating …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Omega2, $5 Linux platform computer for IoT projects, exceeds $450k in Kickstarter funding

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 17: Bitfinex hack interim report, KeepKey wallet does ShapeShift trades, Copay users can purchase Amazon gift cards

DDoSCoin rewards attackers with a cryptocurrency for blasting a website

myDevices partners with Arduino to jumpstart Internet of Things project development

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 10: Bitfinex trading coming back online, App Store fake Bitcoin apps, Kim Dotcom Megaupload Bitcache talk

Delta Air Lines flight cancellations possibly caused by data center fire

Numerous fake Bitcoin wallet apps discovered in Apple iTunes App Store

Bitcoin Weekly 2016 August 3: Bitfinex loses 119,756 BTC in theft, Blockstream acquires GreenAddress, Brave browser raises $4.5 million

Mozilla begins roll-out of multi-process support and mandatory add-on signing in Firefox

Brave ad-blocking browser raises $4.5 million in preparation for 1.0 launch

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