A reporter for The Verge was thankfully unharmed after a white hat hacker seized control of a Yarbo lawnmower robot.
Original title, which I removed for being sensationalist:
Hacker Takes Over Robot Lawnmower, Runs Over Innocent Man
Noteworthy sections
Alarmingly, the Yarbo robots all had the same root password, Makris found.
Even changing the root password wouldn’t necessarily protect owners, either, because every time a Yarbo robot updates its firmware, it resets the root password back to the default, Makris found. And there’s a twist: it appears that this backdoor for remotely accessing the robots was intentionally created by Yarbo.
General opinion I’ve seen online over the past year or two is that the Verge has started following the same downward trend as nearly every other online news source, unfortunately.