In late January I headed to Sidney, Iowa, for the Lawrence and Mary Lou Crom farm retirement auction. Being at an in-person sale with live bidding and rubbing elbows with other actual humans was like ...

Discussions about the repairability of high-tech devices tend to focus on mass-market products: smartphones, laptops, video game consoles, and other commonplace devices. Less apparent is the ...

Owning a $500,000 tractor doesn’t mean you can fix it. Welcome to John Deere’s digital nightmare, where farmers resort to Ukrainian hackers just to repair equipment they legally own. This isn’t ...