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

What IBM #OpenPOWER Consortium New Chips for Datacenters Could Mean for Developers

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

The datacenter has become the metropolis of cloud computing and a space where a lot of things come together for Internet and networked and while the field is constantly changing a group of servers is a massive investment for any outfit from …

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 August 7th: Coinbase Offers Microtransactions, Crypto Street Beta Launch, MtGox Partners With Akamai

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

In this Bitcoin Weekly we take a little look at the state of economic stability of Bitcoin itself by talking about a few things that have to do with exchanging, trading, and working directly with BTC. To start, Coinbase thinks it has …

Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes Vs Women in Video Games Part 3 Talks About Gender Roles in Games

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

The third video in Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series is out and she speaks in this one primarily about the role that gender generally takes in games and how the video game industry is doing a poor job …

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 31: Thailand “Bans” Bitcoin, Bitcoin Movie Kicked from Kickstarter, DATA is here to self-regulate BTC

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

A story is going around how the Thailand government has “banned Bitcoin,” as in made it illegal—but that’s not quite what it seems to be. More than likely (as with most world governments) Thailand is uncertain what to do with Bitcoin and …

Trademark Issue Leads to MMO Fan Site Removing Public-Data About EverQuest Character

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Feldon of EverQuest 2 fan-site EQ2Wire was perhaps groggy with sleep when he first received an e-mail message from Thomas Freyer, apparent owner of Malshandir Limited, claiming that EQ2Wire’s publication of character information violated his trademark—the information belonged to one Malshadir, a …

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 24: SEC Files Bitcoin-related Ponzi Scheme Charges, BitFantasy MMORPG Trades in BTC, More VPN Providers on Board

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Crime and politics have followed bitcoin since its inception but not quite in the sense that is being seen today—and, in news more fun, an MMORPG (a massively multiplayer online role playing game) is being developed that uses bitcoin as its core …

Ask DevOps: HP Vertica’s Jeff Healey Speaks About the Internet of Things

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Last month, I reached out to a few industry experts about how the move towards the Internet of Things and the Industrial Internet–the two names that describe a greater number of “things” being tracked and networked in both consumer and enterprise spaces …

Linux Developers and Linus Torvalds Find Themselves Called Out for Abusive Language

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

On what seems the heels of talking about how developers “speak” in comments attached to repository submissions (taken from a sampling of GitHub commits that contain taboo language) comes another controversy from a different open source cultural facet: the Linux Kernel Mailing …

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 17: Kipochi–Bitcoin and Africa

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

This week, the Africa has been bright in the news about Bitcoin and how a decentralized cryptocurrency could go a long way to hooking into the cashless society burgeoning there. As mobile technology takes hold and mobile payments become more prevalent–where a …

Developers Swearing Over at GitHub

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Sometimes even developers get frustrated. To understand the depth of that frustration, I give you @GItLost–a Twitter feed of developers swearing in their GitHub repository commit comments. The tweets displayed on this stream rush from the casually profane to the hilariously vulgar. …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

What IBM #OpenPOWER Consortium New Chips for Datacenters Could Mean for Developers

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 August 7th: Coinbase Offers Microtransactions, Crypto Street Beta Launch, MtGox Partners With Akamai

Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes Vs Women in Video Games Part 3 Talks About Gender Roles in Games

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 31: Thailand “Bans” Bitcoin, Bitcoin Movie Kicked from Kickstarter, DATA is here to self-regulate BTC

Trademark Issue Leads to MMO Fan Site Removing Public-Data About EverQuest Character

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 24: SEC Files Bitcoin-related Ponzi Scheme Charges, BitFantasy MMORPG Trades in BTC, More VPN Providers on Board

Ask DevOps: HP Vertica’s Jeff Healey Speaks About the Internet of Things

Linux Developers and Linus Torvalds Find Themselves Called Out for Abusive Language

Bitcoin Weekly 2013 July 17: Kipochi–Bitcoin and Africa

Developers Swearing Over at GitHub

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