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

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 18: Bitcoin exchanges get hacked and close, Porn.com 5% BTC sales, Bitcoin Core 0.10.0

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

This week starts with grim news for the Bitcoin exchange market space with 2015 seeing over five exchanges suspending or shuttering services, and several of them after suffering security compromises. Amid the exchanges suspending or closing includes Neagio, Vault of Satoshi, CAVIRTEX, …

Lizard Squad is back: Xbox Live and Daybreak Games Company face DDoS battering

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The great Christmas Day siege of Xbox and PlayStation doesn’t seem to be enough for notorious Internet mayhem group Lizard Squad who have continued their campaign of denial of service attacks against gaming companies. The crew is back and has claimed credit …

Multiple Bitcoin exchanges go offline over weekend, several hacked: BTER.com, Exco.in, HitBTC

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Over the past week several Bitcoin exchange services suffered time offline. BTER.com reported a loss of 7170 BTC due to a hack, complaints report that HitBTC is experiencing a service interruption, and Exco.in suspended operation after a DDoS attack and hack. BTER.com …

Blizzard’s virtual pet goat raises $1.9 million for Ebola charity

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

During December 2014, World of Warcraft players raised $1.9 million by buying a special charity pet in game. Agri, a $10 blue goat stylized after the draenei race from the game, went on sale December 3rd and December 31st last year. 100 percent …

Meet Spot: Boston Dynamics’s kickable robot dog

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The ongoing work by Boston Dynamics, a leading engineering and robotics design company owned by Google Inc., on our future robot overlords continues apace. In a video released by the company, robots mimicking uncanny, skeletal decapitated deer (or perhaps dogs) can be …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 11: How did The Silk Road Trial change perception of Bitcoin?

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Last week saw the end of the trial of Ross Ulbricht, accused of being the proprietor of The Silk Road under the romantic moniker of the Dread Pirate Roberts. Bitcoin featured in the trial as the de facto currency of the underground, …

Screenshots coming soon to Xbox One, says Xbox head honcho

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Xbox head Phil Spencer at Microsoft teased a new capability for Xbox One yesterday on Twitter, announcing “Nice to finally be doing this on my Xbox One dev kit.” The tweet came along with a screenshot of the operating system main screen. …

After closure Massively respawns as MassivelyOP and heads to Kickstarter

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

The news that AOL Inc. was closing down the gaming blog Joystiq and with it shuttering Massively hit the online gaming community hard. The placement of enthusiast gaming press has been a go-to for a multitude of readers and many in the …

Neverwinter Online beta for Xbox One begins today

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

Today owners of the Xbox One will be able to visit the besieged stronghold city of Neverwinter in Cryptic Studio’s free-to-play massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) Neverwinter Online. The beta for the Xbox One version of the game just went …

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 4: Jagex Games Studio gets bitcoin, Google Now Coinbase integration, ZenMiner shutdown

NEWS By KYT DOTSON12 YEARS AGO

This week say another interesting development in the gaming and bitcoin relationship sector when BitPay partnered with a MMO game developer’s payment processor. RuneScape players who use bitcoin will have an interesting morning. Google Now’s digital assistant system can now accept “cards” …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 18: Bitcoin exchanges get hacked and close, Porn.com 5% BTC sales, Bitcoin Core 0.10.0

Lizard Squad is back: Xbox Live and Daybreak Games Company face DDoS battering

Multiple Bitcoin exchanges go offline over weekend, several hacked: BTER.com, Exco.in, HitBTC

Blizzard’s virtual pet goat raises $1.9 million for Ebola charity

Meet Spot: Boston Dynamics’s kickable robot dog

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 11: How did The Silk Road Trial change perception of Bitcoin?

After closure Massively respawns as MassivelyOP and heads to Kickstarter

Neverwinter Online beta for Xbox One begins today

Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 4: Jagex Games Studio gets bitcoin, Google Now Coinbase integration, ZenMiner shutdown

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