A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower

A Yarbo lawnmower with a trimmer attachment. | Image: Yarbo

I'm lying successful the dirt. It's coming for me. Then, with a lurch, it's climbing up my chest. If Andreas Makris doesn't halt the 200-pound robot tract mower successful time, it could resistance its blades crossed my body.

Makris surely can't scope implicit and deed the exigency halt fastener - he's astir 6,000 miles away, having hacked this robot from the different broadside of the planet, to show the gaping information holes successful Yarbo's robot tract mowers. And I've made the questionable determination of lying down successful the mower's way - to spot conscionable however acold Makris, the information researcher who discovered those flaws, is capable to propulsion the mower.

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