Texas’ right to repair electronics law takes effect Tuesday - as right to repair picks up steam. Also: Meta sentenced its Quest 1 virtual reality headset to death. Hackers just saved it.

As the EU's landmark right to repair law takes effect, repair advocates say big gaps remain. Also: Logitech makes small device repairs easy. And: Ghana turns the West's denim trash into art.

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A lawsuit filed by a Chicago-based landscaping firm alleges that software locks and electronic restrictions prevent mechanics from fixing “Yellow” Deere construction and landscaping equipment.

Bambu Lab shut down an open source project to restore owners’ access to 3D printer functions the company cut off. Now YouTuber and advocate Louis Rossman is offering to defend that effort in court.

A malicious campaign by North Korean state actors saw a malicious npm package dependency slipped into a crypto trading agent by an AI coding agent, according to a new report by ReversingLabs. The incident highlights a troubling new frontier in software supply chain attacks: hackers targeting developers...and the AI tools writing their code.

The concept of an “Upside Down” is a good way to think about software risks, as the latest Software Supply Chain Security Report makes clear.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Boston, MA — November 9, 2025 — Secure Repairs, a coalition of more than 400 cybersecurity professionals advocating for the right to repair, has joined leading organizations in filing an amicus brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to affirm a February, 2025 ruling by a district court judge that rejected efforts by the auto industry to declare Massachusetts’s 2020 Right-to-Repair law a violation of federal authority.

Washington became the 6th U.S. state to enact an electronics right to repair law. Connecticut & Texas may be next. Also: Nintendo’s threat to brick Switch 2s highlights collapse of ownership rights.

Embodied, which makes the Moxie emotional support robot for kids, said it is shutting down, rendering its robots inoperable. Also: industry groups urge Trump to cancel right to repair.

The FTC said that smart device makers that fail to disclose their software support plans may be violating federal law. Also: meet OpenWRT One: a wireless Internet router designed to be repairable!

Host Paul Roberts speaks with Sophos CISO Ross McKerchar about Pacific Rim, Sophos' investigation of a years-long Chinese cyber campaign.

With a vote by Parliament (and a nod from King Charles ??!) Canada took a big step ahead of the U.S. as a pro-repair economy. Also: cracked your Pixel 9 Fold's screen? Get your wallet out.

Lawrence Gentilello, the CEO of Optery, talks about the scandal of breaches at data brokers and how his firm is helping consumers fight back.

2024 is only a few days old, but 10 states have already introduced right to repair legislation. Also: Massachusetts Senate passes wheelchair right to repair law. And: tell the FTC you support repair!

Polish hackers may get sued for liberating a passenger train from the manufacturer's attempt to block service and repair. Also: a smoking gun email surfaces in the McDonald's McFlurry lawsuit.

Security researcher and IoT hacker Dennis Giese talks about his mission to liberate robot vacuums from the control of their manufacturers, letting owners tinker with their own devices and - importantl...

In our first Repair Coffee, we're joined by Nathan Proctor of US PIRG to talk about 2023's victories and what lobbyists don't get about right to repair.

Your toaster broke? Google says: just replace it! It's easy!! Also: how parts pairing is killing repair -and making Apple rich(er). And: the Deere disease has spread to trains.

Parts pairing, software controls and product design are the next frontier in the fight for a right to repair. Plus: US PIRG, iFixit call on FTC to create pro-repair rules for OEMs.

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New bill focuses on physical and digital aspects of agricultural repair. Also: Cory Doctorow on how Apple f**ked us on right to repair.

Listen now | Host Paul Roberts is joined by Kyle Wiens to talk about iFixit’s call for a DMCA exemption to repair commercial equipment, and the anti-repair poster child: Taylor’s McFlurry ice crea...