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#10 Ars Technica Security general September 13, 2026 at 11:00 UTC

I fixed a tractor using John Deere’s self-repair service. Farmers aren’t sold on it.

By Boone Ashworth, WIRED.com

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Ars Technica documented a hands-on test of John Deere's self-repair service, which allows equipment owners to perform their own maintenance on John Deere tractors. While primarily a right-to-repair story, it touches on the broader question of manufacturer-controlled software access and firmware update ecosystems in industrial equipment.

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