Microsoft’s new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass
Summary
Ars Technica covers Microsoft's glass-based data storage project (Project Silica), detailing how femtosecond lasers etch data into borosilicate glass to achieve high density and millennia-long stability for archival storage. The article explains voxel writing and reading approaches, including CNN-based decoding, and notes commercialization is not yet ready and scalability remains a challenge.