Here's some bad news for folks who've been using Plex to stream stuff from a buddy's personal media server to their TV for free for years. As it pledged to do earlier this year when it bumped up the ...

Mark has almost a decade of experience reporting on mobile technology, working previously with Digital Trends. Taking a less-than-direct route to technology writing, Mark began his Android journey ...

Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee. Previously, people outside of a server owner’s network could ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. Plex has been rolling out a new user interface for a while now, and to say it's been divisive among users would be an ...

The Plex app is many users' go-to streaming platform for all videos, photos, and music on their devices. This issue is mostly caused by connection issues or server downtime. By updating or ...

Users of the streaming service received a warning that emails, usernames and hashed passwords for a limited group of customers were exposed. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and ...

Streaming giant Plex is urging its customers to change their passwords after it disclosed a data breach of one of its user databases. The company said in a post on Monday that it was aware of a ...

If you have an account with the popular streaming service Plex, you should update your password right now. Run to your television or desktop and dispense with a new account credential immediately, ...

Popular streaming platform Plex on Monday issued an urgent warning that user information has been compromised in a data breach. “An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data ...

Update August 22, 03:57 EDT: This Plex Media Server vulnerability is now tracked as CVE-2025-34158, and it has been rated as maximum severity by VulnCheck. Plex has notified some of its users on ...

Self-hosting is an increasingly popular alternative for those looking to escape the convoluted (and expensive) content-streaming landscape and return to a more traditional personal ownership approach ...