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.

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Syria Spy Tech May Be Powered By NetApp, U.S. Senators Seek Investigation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Amid technology companies being implicated in oppression and censorship, U.S. lawmakers are seeking an investigation against NetApp for their potential role in Internet-surveillance infrastructure being raised in Syria after the recent political upheaval. A recent article in Bloomberg reveals that Mark Kirk …

Microsoft Xbox 360 “Madrid” Beta Dashboard Update Rolls Out

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Thursday, Microsoft announced that it will begin to push out a beta preview of it’s new Xbox 360 code-name “Madrid” dashboard. The beta preview will give a select-few beta testers access to the new dashboard so that they can see what’s happening …

Steam’s User Database Compromised, Possible Credit-Card Information Theft

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Earlier this week it came to our attention that Valve’s video game digital download service, Steam, had suffered an intrusion on its user forums—it has now come to our attention, via a message sent from Valve Corporation head Gabe Newell that states …

Xbox.com Dashboard Goes Social with Upcoming Renovation

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Microsoft is seeking to bring the social element of Xbox LIVE front-and-center to start marching the users of their gaming network to the beat of the same drum—and that drum is all about keeping in touch and bringing out the gamer community. …

Amy O’Connor in theCube: Nokia Looks to Hadoop for Transforming Data Solutions and Consumer Apps

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

The troubles facing smartphone manufacturer Nokia have been front and center a lot lately so seeing them at Hadoop World 2011 shines a light on their future intent. Nokia Senior Director of Analytics, Amy O’Connor, came into theCube for an interview with …

Cloudera CTO Amr Awadallah Gives a Glimpse of Hadoop and Gaming, Modern Warfare

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

John Furrier and Dave Vellante had the CTO and cofounder of Cloudera, Amr Awadallah, in theCube today to speak about the integration of Hadoop and how he sees the future lifting into the clouds. In the midst of discussion about Cloudera and …

Zynga Reschedules Initial Public Offering for Shortly After Thanksgiving

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Rumors of Zynga’s pre-Thanksgiving IPO plans from not too long ago may have been exaggerated, new news on the subject, according to two people who spoke with Bloomberg, suggests that they’re headed instead for an IPO immediately following Turkey Day. The opportune …

PC Gamers Change Your Pants: Steam’s Forums Hacked

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

And by pants, I mean passwords. It looks like reports have been flying all morning that Steam’s forums have been hacked. Steam is an online community and gaming service that provides digital downloads of popular games from the currently popular Batman: Arkham …

MIT Server Becomes Host to Seething DoS and Vulnerability Scanner Suite Infection

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Recently, a server at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been found host to a heavy duty suite of attack tools and used for vulnerability scanning and compromises. Researchers at Bitdefender caught it attempting to inject malware code into unprotected sites on …

Kinect Sales Hit Milestone of 10m Units Sold Total

NEWS By KYT DOTSON15 YEARS AGO

Microsoft has celebrated the first birthday of Kinect by announcing a lifetime sales of 10m units moved. This is somewhat in contrast to the astonishing opening sales that gave it 8m total unit sales in the first 60 days—a fact that landed …

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Syria Spy Tech May Be Powered By NetApp, U.S. Senators Seek Investigation

Microsoft Xbox 360 “Madrid” Beta Dashboard Update Rolls Out

Steam’s User Database Compromised, Possible Credit-Card Information Theft

Amy O’Connor in theCube: Nokia Looks to Hadoop for Transforming Data Solutions and Consumer Apps

MIT Server Becomes Host to Seething DoS and Vulnerability Scanner Suite Infection

Kinect Sales Hit Milestone of 10m Units Sold Total

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