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Yael Grauer

@yaelwrites.com
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Pulitzer-winning investigative tech reporter 💕 📣 yaelwrites.com 💌 yael@yaelwrites.com 💥 #alwaysantifascist ☕️ Support my work: ko-fi.com/kofisupporter11745

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 10m
I've spent the past six months juggling freelance and contract work while also applying for jobs. 77 of them, to be exact. This led to 13 screenings, three interviews, and no offers. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/b...
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Taking a Chance on Self-Employment Over a Corporate 9-to-5
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 23h
It's weird reading complaints about AI-generated resumes and cover letters, for two reasons: 1) They're using ATSes and AI, which are surfacing these AI-generated applications they're complaining about. They're getting paid to review these, which is not true for the people writing them.
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 29/09/2026
Claude was blocking every single request I made. Took me a few days to realize it was because I had instructions asking it to explain its thought process.
The message says "test" and it says "Paused. Edit and retry with Sonnet 5.5. Sonnet 5.5 sageguards flagged this message. This sometimes happens with normal conversations. Send feedback or learn more. Details [reasoning_extraction] 

Manual. Claude is AI and can make mistakes.
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 28/09/2026
I'm reviewing my posts from the past few months for my #antisocial post and while this one didn't make the cut, it is v underrated
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 28/09/2026
Every week or so I get an AI-generated email from someone who spent an afternoon vibe coding some app to solve some big problem, and they want me to review it for them. But the thing is that I value my time and am not going to do unpaid consulting/beta testing unless something blows my mind. 🤷‍♀️
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 28/09/2026
I don't miss Twitter that much but I do miss x.com/OnlyGirlInTech.
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Only Girl in Tech (@OnlyGirlInTech) on X
software engineer. the one with the tits.
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Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons @firewalldragons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today is the day!! EPISODE 500!! 🔥🐉 🎙️ My guest is Bruce Schneier who has been here for every 100th show. We discuss AI and how we avoid an AI dystopia. Also, I have several shoutouts, fun FDSD history and stats, and more! #FDSD500 podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2026/09/28/h...
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Here's to 500!! - Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast
Today marks an incredible milestone for this podcast: 500 episodes! Not only is that a crazy long run for any podcast, but I’ve also...
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 25/09/2026
Companies continue to put all of the responsibility for scams on individuals, even while they're financially profiting off of this scam... but end users have the least amount of power, control, time and data. From the @nationalconsumers.bsky.social Future of Trust conference panel on AI scams.
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 28/09/2026
Quick update to the data broker opt-out list! github.com/yaelwrites/b...
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GitHub - yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List
Contribute to yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 26/09/2026
Meta earned 14.3 million from Medicare scam ads counterhate.com/blog/meta-al...
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New Investigation Finds Meta Allowed Medicare Scammers to Generate More Than 215 Million Views on Ads, Mostly from Seniors — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH
New CCDH report reveals how Meta’s advertising platform fuels the expansive spread of Medicare Advantage scams targeting older Americans.
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 25/09/2026
Companies continue to put all of the responsibility for scams on individuals, even while they're financially profiting off of this scam... but end users have the least amount of power, control, time and data. From the @nationalconsumers.bsky.social Future of Trust conference panel on AI scams.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/09/2026
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target losing gamblers. This is yet another example of how online behavioral advertising hurts real people.
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DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavio...
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026
if you quit corporate to become a beekeeper, does that mean you broke out in hives
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National Consumers League @nationalconsumers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yael started us off strong yesterday, sharing what she's learned about AI fraud in the last 12 months as a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative tech reporter covering privacy and security, digital freedom, hacking, and mass surveillance. More of her work here: yaelwrites.com
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 24/09/2026
I don't need to connect my fill in the blank to the internet arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
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Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
So absurd and embarrassing ..."
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.org · 24/09/2026
Heathrow airport has special corridors reserved for passengers with antlers, which seems very thoughtful of them but also oddly specific.
Sign reading: “→
Flight Connections
All terminals”

with a pictograph of a person walking and two pictographs of airplanes that appear to be radiating out of their head, resembling antlers.
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 24/09/2026
It was an absolute pleasure sharing the stage with Nicol Turner Lee, Ari Redbord, Emily Barth and briefly, John Breyault, to discuss the ever-evolving threat of scams and #AIFraud, and what we've learned in the past 12 months, for @nationalconsumers.bsky.social
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
💔🙀
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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🏴S T R E P S I R R H I N I🏴 @strepsirrhini.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com Archived and paywall free here archive.ph/cJMGy
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 21/09/2026
G’mar chatimah tovah!
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 19/09/2026
"FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them" gizmodo.com/fbi-warns-ic...
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FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
ICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any woman whose profile would "appeal" to them.
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(1/5) Pentagon leadership has said that by the end of this month, Palantir's Maven artificial intelligence system will become a line item with stable, long-term funding in the defense budget (a "program of record"). #News #Palantir #AI
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
Ask yourself this: how have institutions that for years have said they face budget shortfalls, deficits, shortages that “required” them to deny faculty lines, fire staff, raise tuition, cut research support, etc. suddenly find the money to pay for outrageously expensive contracts for AI services?
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Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Beyond honored to receive the last #LABSCon #SentinelLabs Lifetime Achievement Award 🥇
LABS
CON
2026

Lifetime Achievement

Katie Moussouris 

For voicing or conscience from the Pentagon to the karaoke bar
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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 17/09/2026
This post appeared under this Techmeme headline:
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
You can read all the details in my write-up, which also shows exactly where in this public dataset you can find all of this micahflee.com/flock-camera...
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Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials
This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloa...
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.
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ninjacooter (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦂⛧⚷🐦‍🔥 @ninjacooter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Cronbaugh described a network of around 28 dating apps where the conversation was largely run by autonomous AI personas. The majority of chats, he said, did not involve a human agent at all. Anthropic has since published its findings in the “scams and fraud”
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The Verge @theverge.com · 16/09/2026
Users, mostly men in their 30s, go on dating apps and match with what they believe to be real women. Only one in four of them actually is, and that person is not a user looking for other dates but rather a paid gig worker using pregenerated replies. Read more from @yaelwrites.com: buff.ly/sYMIJJy
Verge headline: Thousands of people were catfished by scammers supercharged with AI

by Yael Grauer

Illustration of a mannequin wearing a digital mask, framed by a phone screen, the screen obscures the fact the person isn't real
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The Verge @theverge.com · 16/09/2026
Thousands of people were catfished by scammers supercharged with AI. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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The sexy AI-powered dating app scams are here
Thousands of people were catfished by scammers supercharged with AI.
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 16/09/2026
For the @theverge.com, I dug into a dating scam network that an @anthropic.com spoke about @sleuthcon.bsky.social. It was later described in Anthropic's extremely thorough threat intel report. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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The sexy AI-powered dating app scams are here
Thousands of people were catfished by scammers supercharged with AI.
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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 16/09/2026
Something very cool by @yaelwrites.com, with an assist by @zigula.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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The sexy AI-powered dating app scams are here
Thousands of people were catfished by scammers supercharged with AI.
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 15/09/2026
My completely subjective favorite Emmys dresses
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James Padolsey @j11y.io · 14/09/2026
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A letter to the AI labs shouldering the great burden of humanity’s survival
Your rich ivory halls are birthing martyrs of late, shouldering great responsibility and prophesying great plagues upon humanity. It seems, they say, your AIs are not just writing emails anymore.…
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 14/09/2026
Check out the cyber pupper of the week! this.weekinsecurity.com/this-week-in...
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this week in security — september 13 2026 edition
Berlin responding to data breach ahead of elections, Apple to roll out 'always-listening' features, experts stress-test GPS jamming attacks, Russians are targeting sub-sea cables, FBI says don't let A...
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There is nothing “conservative” about either MAGA or the AfD, certainly not in the colloquial understanding of the term. They are at war with the very idea of a democratic society of equals, devoted to a “counter-revolutionary” project that is best described as aggrieved revanchism.
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James Padolsey @j11y.io · 13/09/2026
I've tried to encapsulate my thoughts here on how to work at an AI lab and not be a wanker talking about p-dooms without substantiation - wankthropic.com
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Wankthropic
Humanity’s future is too important to leave to humanity. We have written a very long essay explaining why this makes us uncomfortable.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 12/09/2026
Happy Rosh Hashanah! Wishing all who celebrate a sweet and joyful new year. And no matter what you celebrate, it is always good to take the opportunity to reset. 🍎🍯
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We set up a surveillance panopticon 45 days after the attacks that has come to define our hellish reality and explicitly degraded our constitutional rights. Congress passed a law giving up their right to declare war. Our government's immediate response was to restrict the rights of Americans.
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The weeks after 9/11 were filled with unhinged Islamophobia and any claim that we were completely united explicitly places them on the outside of who you consider to be American
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 11/09/2026
help my two favorite local thai restaurants are fighting
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 11/09/2026
Please don’t call me to tell me BADBOOL isn’t used-friendly; you can fork the repo or pay EOO or Kanary or whatever. This list is for masochists who want to be thorough and do data removal on hard mode.
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National Consumers League @nationalconsumers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Twelve months and countless new scams. What has actually changed? Kicking off Day 1 of the Future of Trust conference, this panel breaks down what's shifted in AI-enabled fraud over the past year. RSVP: ow.ly/gqWs50ZMmAy #AI #Fraud #Scam #PublicPolicy #ConsumerProtection
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 10/09/2026
My conversation with Gianna Whitver was so juicy--hear us talk about what companies get wrong when journalists come knocking and why lying in that moment makes everything worse... plus my favorite sites and blogs. Let me know which ones I'm missing! thecyberwire.com/podcasts/bre...
Breaking Through in Cybersecurity Marketing N2K The Other Side of the PR Pitch with Pulitzer Prize Winner Yael Grauer. Yael Grauer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Tech Reporter. Host: Gianna Whitver.
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 10/09/2026
this game is the only thing in my life that makes sense circle9puzzle.com/ballsort/ if I sort enough balls, will it solve what ails us?
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Ball Sort
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