Interesting Engineering

End of data decay? Microsoft’s ‘glass plates’ can store data for 10,000 years

Microsoft’s Project Silica uses ultrafast lasers to store 4.84TB of data in small glass plates, preserving digital history for up to 10,000 years.
Microsoft

Project Silica’s advances in glass storage technology

Project Silica introduces new techniques for encoding data in borosilicate glass, as described in the journal Nature. These ...
IEEE

Improved Distributed Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning by Density-Adaptive Data Poisoning and Projection-Based Gradient Updating

Abstract: While federated learning enables collaborative model training with preserved data locality, it remains vulnerable to evolving backdoor attacks that exploit its distributed architecture.
Microsoft

Microsoft and G42 Accelerate UAE’s Digital Future with Major Data Centre Expansion

Microsoft and international neocloud provider, G42 set to expand the UAE’s digital infrastructure with a 200-megawatt (MW) increase in datacenter capacity As part of Microsoft’s $15.2 billion ...