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

Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs Women in Video Games Part 4 looks at the Ms. Male Character

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

The fourth video of Tropes vs. Women is out and Anita Sarkeesian uses her 25 minutes to focus on two popular video game tropes that set female characters apart from male characters: specifically the “Ms. Male Character” and a revisitation of the …

Google, your YouTube commenters are revolting

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Anger and fury continues to grow over the integration of YouTube comments with Google+ as long-time video makers react to woes and community disruption caused. When Google announced the upcoming replacement, debates broke out about the anti-anonymous nature of Google+ while also …

New Autodesk 3D cloud-streaming applications bring high-end power into the browser

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

More than ever the cloud and mobile devices are freeing up workers from being chained to their offices to get work done and the first wave has been collaboration and support—but the technology just hadn’t quite cracked the nut for highly computational …

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 November 13: Bitmit closing up shop, Chinese exchange GBL vanishes on investors, Shopify adds 70,000 merchants to the BTC market

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Bitcoin value lately continues its highly upwardly mobile trajectory as over the last 24 hours the bids on MtGox for the currency has elevated from $365 to $425. In the Bitcoin community, new opportunities are opening up as others are closing down. …

Bitcoin wallet Inputs.io goes frownyface and shuts down after serious breach

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Visitors to the secure Bitcoin wallet site Inputs.io will be greeted with a frowning emoticon today and a PGP-signed message telling them the bad news: Inputs.io has been shut down in the wake of a massive hack. The site has lost 4100 …

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 November 6: China market still going strong, another study ‘Bitcoin is broken’, US Senate seeks hearings on virtual currency

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Not to be outdone from last week, Bitcoin value has continued its rise from $210 last week to exceeding $250 this week. Much of this is still speculated to be due to the introduction of China to Bitcoin exchange markets (and not …

Ask DevOps: It is time again to tangle with Daylight Savings Time, a guide for developers

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Daylight Savings Time is becoming more and more of a controversial subject as civilization continues to integrate with roads, cars, and internet. The old ways of saving extra light by pushing the clocks around is becoming more of a frustrating tradition and …

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 October 30: World’s first Bitcoin ATM in Canada, FBI finally got DPR’s BTC booty, London-based Coinfloor launches

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Growth continues for the Bitcoin market as it continues to maintain a value above $200 even with some fluctuations. The world’s first Bitcoin ATM has been set up in a coffee shop in Vancouver, Canada that allows people to easily exchange BTC …

Minecraft 1.7 Patch Changes, Rearranges, Turns-Upside-Down the Virtual World

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

The next massive update to Minecraft is rolling off the assembly line as this blog post is typed and the 1.7.2 patch is a real doozy. Developer Mojang has announced its availability and it’s already rolling out to the launcher so that …

PHP.net Compromised, Caught Potentially Spreading Malware

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

For a short time today, it appears that something managed to compromise the PHP.net web pages and alter some of the JavaScript present to spread malware. Earlier today, Barracuda Labs quickly published a blog post researching the hits and speculating about what …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs Women in Video Games Part 4 looks at the Ms. Male Character

Google, your YouTube commenters are revolting

New Autodesk 3D cloud-streaming applications bring high-end power into the browser

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 November 13: Bitmit closing up shop, Chinese exchange GBL vanishes on investors, Shopify adds 70,000 merchants to the BTC market

Bitcoin wallet Inputs.io goes frownyface and shuts down after serious breach

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 November 6: China market still going strong, another study ‘Bitcoin is broken’, US Senate seeks hearings on virtual currency

Ask DevOps: It is time again to tangle with Daylight Savings Time, a guide for developers

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 October 30: World’s first Bitcoin ATM in Canada, FBI finally got DPR’s BTC booty, London-based Coinfloor launches

Minecraft 1.7 Patch Changes, Rearranges, Turns-Upside-Down the Virtual World

PHP.net Compromised, Caught Potentially Spreading Malware

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