Jailbreak bug in John Deere tractors drives right-to-repair wave
A hacker managed to jailbreak John Deere's software and hijack its vehicles by bypassing digital security locks.
John Deere is an agricultural vehicle manufacturing company that produces tractors, among others. A new jailbreak allows hackers to bypass digital security locks enforced by tractor m... Read more
Linux Foundation launches Infrastructure Project for Agriculture
The initiative aims to enable global collaboration among industry, government and academia.
The Linux Foundation has unveiled a new open source digital infrastructure project aimed at the agriculture industry. The new project is going by the name of the AgStack Foundation. It seeks to promo... Read more
IBM and Hello Tractor develop AI and blockchain platform for agriculture
IBM Research and the agtech startup Hello Tractor have developed an AI and blockchain driven platform for African farmers. In the course of 2019, the two companies will come up with a trial for the product, which is co-funded by IBM.
The two companies report this to the TechCrunch site. This is the ... Read more