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Researchers develop a method to use DNA to store data, and demo its use by storing 11 MB in 3 micrograms of stable DNA dust. If scaled up this could mean 3.7 TB/gram of dust. (www.tju.edu.cn)
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[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

P2P technology is about to get nasty!

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

In the future, you swab the inside of your cheek and then insert the swab into a port on your computer, which squeezes the swab to recover the cheek cells and then processes them. Congratulations, you have added 10TB of storage to your computer.

Further thought: downside - your data can be directly linked to you because it is encoded on your own DNA.

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago) (1 children)

Can you snort it? Just imagine all of that sweet, sweet data...

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 points 10 hours ago

The new way for LLMs to injest data