Daily reads: Jun 13, 2026

The Commerce Department ordered the Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis to stop using noise infusion, a privacy technique that adds random variation to published statistics. The article explains how such methods help protect confidential source data, including census responses, while still allowing agencies to release useful aggregate numbers.

Anthropic suspended all public and internal access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 after a US government directive cited unspecified national security authorities. The move affects enterprise customers globally, rerouting requests to older models, and follows reports of a viral jailbreak that allegedly bypassed the models’ safeguards.

The FBI has created a small-town training environment inside a building in Alabama to simulate real-world cyberattacks. The facility is designed to help personnel practice responding to cyber incidents in a controlled, realistic setting.

Researchers at UNSW developed an ultrasonic espresso process that uses high-frequency sound waves instead of hot water to extract flavor, oils, aroma, and caffeine from coffee grounds. The method can produce espresso-strength coffee in under three minutes while using up to 75% less energy than conventional brewing.

Renault says it has been mass-producing EESM electric motors without rare earths since the early 2010s, starting with models like Kangoo Z.E and Zoe. The company contrasts its approach with the broader EV market, where about 90% of electric cars use permanent-magnet motors containing rare earth materials.

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says phone buyers should upgrade sooner rather than later, warning that rising memory prices are already affecting the company’s mid-range devices. He said RAM costs doubled before the Nothing Phone 4A launched and have doubled again since, with memory now potentially exceeding half the cost of a new phone.

Apple says it migrated its security-critical TrueType hinting interpreter from C to Swift for its Fall 2025 releases. The rewrite aims to reduce risks from processing untrusted font data and runs 13% faster on average than the previous C implementation, with source code now published.

Researchers from IGI, UC Berkeley, UCSF, Gladstone, and Utah institutions reported a CRISPR-based technique called chromatin shredding that kills cells carrying a mutation found in nearly half of cancers. The approach may target hard-to-treat “undruggable” cancers including ovarian, pancreatic, and non-small cell lung cancer, and can potentially be adapted to new mutations.

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code, an open-source update to its K2 coding model line that uses the same trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture as K2.6 and supports OpenAI-compatible APIs. The company claims a 30% cut in thinking-token usage and strong gains on its own coding benchmarks, but practitioners are questioning whether those results will hold up independently.

TechCrunch is compiling live coverage around a potential SpaceX IPO, drawing on its long-running reporting on the company’s evolution. The package will examine S-1 filings, pre-IPO transactions, and which investors or insiders may benefit most.

The article says a future SpaceX IPO could make Elon Musk the richest person in history. It argues that Musk’s leadership of DOGE helped dismantle USAID during Trump’s second term, with severe global public-health consequences.

Google researchers introduced faithful uncertainty, a method that helps LLMs align responses with their internal confidence and offer qualified “best guesses” when appropriate. The approach aims to reduce hallucinations without forcing models into a rigid answer-or-abstain tradeoff that can suppress useful responses.