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

Abusing the Cloud: When Solo Games Get Connected

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Recently, EA came out with the most recent installment of SimCity–a game that didn’t classically contain multiplayer and spoke to more or less a core solo-player audience. However, in EA Maxis’s infinite wisdom SimCitty 5 was launched to be always-online and multiplayer …

The Revolution Will Be Augmented: OWS Should Embrace Google Glass

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

The newest threat to public privacy is barely out of the gate and already speculation is wild about how Google glass will be used. Thoughts on how it will lead to a black eye or being banned from a bar have already …

Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes Vs Women in Video Games Debuts: “Damsel in Distress – Part 1”

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

The first video of Anita Sarkeesian’s “Tropes vs. Women in Video Games” series is out–“Damsels in Distress – Part 1”. There’s quite a bit of history behind this video and a lot of reaction to wade through; but for those interested in …

Mojang Targets Family-Friendly Gaming With Minecraft Realms

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Minecraft is a video gaming and social phenomenon that has made deep waves across the industry. As a game it has inspired gamers and educators alike; but it’s still primarily a single player game with multiplayer attached by allowing an instance of …

Google Reader to Close Up and Blow Away in July

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

With a popup and a smile, Google has announced that it’s extinguishing Google Reader–arguably the world’s most popular RSS feed reader in existence–on July 1st, 2013. After seven years of operation, the search giant is closing the service citing the decline of …

Breaking: Disagreement Between Bitcoin Clients Generates Fork

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Due to a difference between two versions of the Bitcoin client (running v0.7 and v0.8 respectively) a fork has occurred when v0.8 clients generated a block that v0.7 blocks could not process. As a result, the two clients diverged and generated different, …

BitInstant Social-Engineering, DNS Hijack Hack Ended With $12,480 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Last Monday, BitInstant announced the results of having suffered a successful social engineering hack that ended with them losing approximately $12,480 USD worth of BTC (believed to be ฿999 BTC). The attacker, who used socially engineered information in order to take control of …

Riverbed Announces Community-Centric Spash and Developer-Friendly FlyScript for Software-Defined Networking

NEWS By KYT DOTSON13 YEARS AGO

Today Riverbed, an application performance company, announced a suite of new tools provided to developers that will greatly enhance their ability to perform DevOps duties. Amid these, management elements such as in FlyScript—a software-defined scripting language for acting on networking—and a highly integrated …

Google Glass: The Cultural Impact of Digital Eyes

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

Google’s wearable-computing project, Google Glass, has become something of a media phenomenon lately due to its highly innovative aspect of being able to put augmented reality and a camera right up to consumers’ eyes. No doubt this will have a great impact …

Bitcoin Adoption: The Slow but Steady Emergence Through Services

NEWS By KYT DOTSON14 YEARS AGO

It’s 2013 and Bitcoin has been making many inroads into ecommerce, much of the focus of adoption has been on seeing how it could allow people to use money in ways they hadn’t before. It’s almost the science fiction credits that could …

Kyt Dotson

Latest from Kyt Dotson

The Revolution Will Be Augmented: OWS Should Embrace Google Glass

Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes Vs Women in Video Games Debuts: “Damsel in Distress – Part 1”

Mojang Targets Family-Friendly Gaming With Minecraft Realms

Google Reader to Close Up and Blow Away in July

Breaking: Disagreement Between Bitcoin Clients Generates Fork

BitInstant Social-Engineering, DNS Hijack Hack Ended With $12,480 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen

Riverbed Announces Community-Centric Spash and Developer-Friendly FlyScript for Software-Defined Networking

Google Glass: The Cultural Impact of Digital Eyes

Bitcoin Adoption: The Slow but Steady Emergence Through Services

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