CALDWELL, Texas (KRHD) The Texas A&M Engineering SPARK! program introduced Caldwell students to robotics and STEM Thursday as part of the Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library's summer reading program.

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For Arley Campbell and her brother Raley, playing around with robots is nothing new.

"Well, I'm kind of used to working with robots," Arley said.

But not with these kinds of robots

"I've never played with robots," Raley said.

But they're expanding her knowledge at Texas A&M Engineering's traveling STEM program SPARK!

"Yeah, a big part of what we do is making sure that we give them a good education and computational thinking, so being able to think through a process and come up with these steps and what we call algorithms or like our programming language," Program Specialist Robert Hoyuela said.

It's one reason their grandma Melissa is signing them up.

Arley had already taken some in school this year, so I thought it would be really exciting, and Raley I figured he would really love it, Melissa Campbell said.

The engineering industry is growing with nearly 200,000 jobs are expected to open each year nationally while Texasremains one of the top engineer employers.

"As manufacturing increases, we're trying to bring more factories and businesses to Texas, so as that manufacturing increases, we need more engineers to fill those roles, so they figured start at a younger age spark that interest, like Robert said, and then hopefully we end up with more engineers," Trudi Skinner, a program specialist said.

Future engineers like Arley who's thinking of a career in the field.

"I thought about it. I thought I might want to work on cars," Arley said.

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Japanese automaker Honda has experienced significant success with its Accord model selling over 300,000 units per year in the US eleven times over the past two decades. The Accord released in the US in the late 2000s wasn't the same model that Europe received. The Honda sedan across the pond featured a smaller size, tighter handling, and was marketed toward a more youthful demographic. While some countries like Australia received both Accord models to choose from, Honda went another route with Americans.

Acura, the luxury Honda brand, simply took the European version of the Accord, and changed the name to the TSX. Reviews on the 2009 Acura TSX were glowing with examples from Car and Driver who stated, "A fantastic, fun-to-drive car overall" and Edmunds who praised it's "Immense features list, [and] sporty handling." The TSX is a good example of badge engineering, as even though it was originally branded a Honda Accord in Europe, it's a model the US might not have experienced otherwise.

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Were constantly working to reduce network latency and improve performance for customers. Our approach is unique in that we have built our own network devices and network operating systems for every layer of the stackfrom the Network Interface Card, to the top-of-rack switch, to the data center network, to the internet-facing router and our backbone routers. This approach not only gives us greater control over improving security, reliability, and performance for customers, but also enables us to move faster than others to innovate. For example, in 2019, we introduced Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), a network interface custom-built by AWS that provides operating system bypass capabilities to Amazon EC2 instances. This enables customers to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node communications at scale. EFA uses Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD), a high-performance, lower-latency network transport protocol that was designed specifically by AWS, for AWS.

More recently, we moved fast to deliver a new network for generative AI workloads. Our first generation UltraCluster network, built in 2020, supported 4,000 graphics processing units, or GPUs, with a latency of eight microseconds between servers. The new network, UltraCluster 2.0, supports more than 20,000 GPUs with 25% latency reduction. It was built in just seven months, and this speed would not have been possible without the long-term investment in our own custom network devices and software. Internally, we call UltraCluster 2.0 the 10p10u network, as it delivers tens of petabits per second of throughput, with a round-trip time of less than 10 microseconds. The new network results in at least 15% reduction in time to train a model.

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The Williams F1 team has been on a recruiting drive across its technical team, announcing no less than six new hires to senior positions.

Matt Harman will join the team as design director, starting after the summer shutdown. Most recently technical director at Alpine, Harman has also worked at Renault, Mercedes and Mercedes powertrains division over a 24-year career in F1.

Fabrice Moncade is set to join the team as chief engineer, computing science on July 1. Formerly head of performance analytics at Ferrari, he has pioneered modern-day lap simulation in F1 and worked on two title-winning cars while at Mercedes. He has also worked at McLaren, Sauber and BMW Sauber during his 17 years in the sport.

Juan Molina will also arrive as chief aerodynamicist, starting on July 15. Previously principal aerodynamicist at Haas, he won three championship doubles during a spell with Red Bull and will report to Adam Kenyon who was promoted to head of aerodynamics in April.

Steve Winstanley has been appointed chief engineer, composites and structures to lead and transform the structures department within the design office. He brings 22 years of F1 experience including 14 at Red Bull, where he was involved in six double-championship-winning campaigns.

Richard Frith will also join Williams in 2025 as head of performance systems. Formerly head of performance at Alpine, Frith has 25 years of experience in the sport including spells with Jordan, Force India, Sauber, Marussia and McLaren.

All five will form part of the technical team being led by Pat Fry, who joined Williams in November. They are among 26 recruits from other F1 teams who will join Williams over the year, including several from Mercedes and Ferrari, four from Red Bull and 10 from Alpine. There has been a particular focus on strengthening the aerodynamics team, with 11 hires, and the design office with 13.

These hires will be joined by Sorin Cheran, who arrives at Williams as chief information and analytics officer after a 17-year career with Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He specializes in artificial intelligence and innovation and will lead a transformation of how the team acquires, stores, indexes and uses data to build a best-in-class technology operation.

James Vowles, team principal, commented, I am delighted to welcome these six incredible people to Williams. We are on a mission to fight our way back to the front and being able to attract experienced, championship-winning talent from other teams demonstrates huge belief in the journey we are on. Williams is investing in what it takes to win, and this is just the start as we prepare to welcome more new faces from across the grid in the months ahead.

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Over the weekend, a clip from a recent interview with Telegrams founder Pavel Durov went semi-viral on X (previously Twitter). In the video, Durov tells right-wing personality Tucker Carlson that he is the only product manager at the company, and that he only employs about 30 engineers.

Security experts say that while Durov was bragging about his Dubai-based company being super efficient, what he said was actually a red flag for users.

Without end-to-end encryption, huge numbers of vulnerable targets, and servers located in the UAE? Seems like that would be a security nightmare, Matthew Green, a cryptography expert at Johns Hopkins University, told TechCrunch. (Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn disputed this, saying it has no data centers in the UAE.)

Green was referring to the fact that by default chats on Telegram are not end-to-end encrypted like they are on Signal or WhatsApp. A Telegram user has to start a Secret Chat to switch on end-to-end encryption, making the messages unreadable to Telegram or anyone other than the intended recipient. Also, over the years, many people have cast doubt over the quality of Telegrams encryption, given that the company uses its own proprietary encryption algorithm, created by Durovs brother, as he said in an extended version of the Carlson interview.

Eva Galperin, the director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a longtime expert in the security of at-risk users, said that its important to remember that Telegram, unlike Signal, is a lot more than just a messaging app.

What makes Telegram different (and much worse!) is that Telegram is not just a messaging app, it is also a social media platform. As a social media platform, it is sitting on an enormous amount of user data. Indeed, it is sitting on the contents of all communications that are not one-on-one messages that have been specifically [end-to-end] encrypted, Galperin told TechCrunch. Thirty engineers means that there is no one to fight legal requests, there is no infrastructure for dealing with abuse and content moderation issues.

And I would even argue that the quality of those 30 engineers isnt that great, Galperin continued. Also, if I was a threat actor, I would definitely consider this to be encouraging news. Every attacker loves a profoundly understaffed and overworked opponent.

In other words, its unlikely for Telegram to be very effective fighting hackers, especially government-backed ones, with such a small staff.

Telegrams spokesperson confirmed the company has 30 developers working on the apps and infrastructure, but claims to have an additional 30 people on its core team. The spokesperson did not answer our specific questions, including whether the company has a chief security officer, and how many of its engineers work full time on securing the platform.

Last week, the well-known cybersecurity expert SwiftOnSecurity wrote on X that The cost to run a company that has all the right cyber security tools and staff is absolutely obscene.

Its hard to describe the numbers Ive seen. Even saying this is a gray area. But it is [an] incredible headcount and spend, SwiftOnSecurity wrote.

All to say, even the biggest companies on the planet probably dont spend enough money, time and energy on securing themselves. Telegram has almost one billion users, according to Durov. Its one of the most popular platforms for people working in crypto (who move millions of dollars), extremists, hackers and disinformation peddlers.

That makes it an incredibly interesting target for both criminal and government hackers. And it has at most just a handful of people dedicated to cybersecurity.

For years, security experts have warned that people should not see Telegram like a truly secure messaging app. Given what Durov said recently, it may be even worse than experts thought.

UPDATE: June 25, 10:31 a.m. ET: This story was updated to include comments from Telegrams spokesperson, which were provided after publication.

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