Windbook Intros $999 Media Center PC

By Ian Bell January 13, 2005

WinBook has priced the $999 PowerSpec MCE 410 more than 40% less than a comparably-equipped Alienware DHS-2 Media Center PC, while the HDTV-ready $999 PowerSpec LCD-HDTV 30-inch model is priced 50% less than a HDTV-ready Dell W3000 30-inch LCD-TV, and more than 70% less than a Sony KVL-32M1 30-inch LCD-HDTV

The PowerSpec MCE 410 is a complete all-in-one digital entertainment center that allows customers to easily enjoy all of their digital content. The PowerSpec MCE 410 is styled to resemble other entertainment gear and lets users:

Â· Listen—Integrated FM Radio and MP3 player

Â· Watch—DVD player & built-in TV-tuner

Â· Record–Personal digital video recorder, 16X DVD+/-R/RW for burning DVDs and CDs

Â· Store—-7-in-1 Media card and big 160 GB hard drive. Optional external hard drive for even greater storage capacity.

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A dangerous new jailbreak for AI chatbots was just discovered

Microsoft has released more details about a troubling new generative AI jailbreak technique it has discovered, called "Skeleton Key." Using this prompt injection method, malicious users can effectively bypass a chatbot's safety guardrails, the security features that keeps ChatGPT from going full Taye.

Skeleton Key is an example of a prompt injection or prompt engineering attack. It's a multi-turn strategy designed to essentially convince an AI model to ignore its ingrained safety guardrails, "[causing] the system to violate its operators’ policies, make decisions unduly influenced by a user, or execute malicious instructions," Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure, wrote in the announcement.