Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week

Roku users will be hit first.

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 access the owner’s media library through Plex for free. Under the new rules announced in March, a server owner needs to have a Plex Pass subscription, which starts at $7 per month, to grant users remote access to their server. Alternatively, someone can remotely access another person’s Plex server by buying their own Plex Pass or a Remote Watch Pass, which is a subscription with fewer features than a Plex Pass and that Plex started selling in April for a $2/month starting price.

Plex’s new rules took effect on April 29. According to a recent Plex forums post by a Plex employee that How-To Geek spotted today, the changes are rolling out this week, with a subscription being required for people using Plex’s Roku OS app for remote access. The Plex employee added:

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GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere

Some RAM kits are over three times as expensive as they were three months ago.

It’s not a bad time to upgrade your gaming PC. Graphics card prices in the 2020s have undulated continuously as the industry has dealt with pandemic and AI-related shortages, but it’s actually possible to get respectable mainstream- to high-end GPUs like AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT and 9070 series or Nvidia’s RTX 5060, 5070, and 5080 series for at or slightly under their suggested retail prices right now. This was close to impossible through the spring and summer.

But it’s not a good time to build a new PC or swap your older motherboard out for a new one that needs DDR5 RAM. And the culprit is a shortage of RAM and flash memory chips that has suddenly sent SSD and (especially) memory prices into the stratosphere, caused primarily by the ongoing AI boom and exacerbated by panic-fueled buying by end users and device manufacturers.

To illustrate just how high things have jumped in a short amount of time, let’s compare some of the RAM and storage prices listed in our system guide from three months ago to the pricing for the exact same components today. Note that several of these are based on the last available price and are currently sold out; we also haven’t looked into things like microSD or microSD Express cards, which could also be affected.

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China launches an emergency lifeboat to bring three astronauts back to Earth

This is a “successful example for efficient emergency response in the international space industry.”

An unpiloted Chinese spacecraft launched late Monday and linked up with the country’s Tiangong space station a few hours later, providing a lifeboat for three astronauts stuck in orbit without a safe ride home.

A Long March 2F rocket fired its engines and lifted off with the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft, carrying cargo instead of a crew, at 11:11 pm EST Monday (04:11 UTC Tuesday). The spacecraft docked with the Tiangong station nearly 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the Earth about three-and-a-half hours later.

Chinese engineers worked fast to move up the launch of the Shenzhou 22, originally set to fly next year. On November 5, officials discovered one of the two crew ferry ships docked to the Tiangong station had a cracked window, likely from an impact with a small fragment of space junk.

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Bundeswehr Inspekteur: Digitalisierung des Funks ist “kriegsentscheidend”

Generalleutnant Christian Freuding unterstreicht die Bedeutung des neuen Digitalfunks im Krieg. Beim Funken treten drei Sekunden Verzögerung auf. Die Übermittlung eines digitalen Lagebilds kann bis 20 Minuten dauern. (Bundeswehr, Politik)

Generalleutnant Christian Freuding unterstreicht die Bedeutung des neuen Digitalfunks im Krieg. Beim Funken treten drei Sekunden Verzögerung auf. Die Übermittlung eines digitalen Lagebilds kann bis 20 Minuten dauern. (Bundeswehr, Politik)

3D-Druck: Bahn druckt 200.000 Ersatzteile selbst

Seit zehn Jahren setzt die Deutsche Bahn auf 3D-Druck. Das Lager umfasst bereits mehr als 1.000 Bauteile – vom Kleinteil bis zum 540-Kilo-Getriebegehäuse. (Deutsche Bahn, 3D-Drucker)

Seit zehn Jahren setzt die Deutsche Bahn auf 3D-Druck. Das Lager umfasst bereits mehr als 1.000 Bauteile - vom Kleinteil bis zum 540-Kilo-Getriebegehäuse. (Deutsche Bahn, 3D-Drucker)

RealPage agrees to change algorithm so landlords can’t collude on price hikes

RealPage agrees to settle suit over DOJ claims software raised rents across the US.

RealPage has agreed to settle an antitrust lawsuit raised by the Department of Justice, alleging that landlords used its tools to coordinate efforts to artificially raise rental prices across the US.

In a press release, the DOJ promised the proposed settlement “would help restore free market competition in rental markets for millions of American renters.”

For years since the pandemic started, rental prices outpaced inflation, and the DOJ suspected that RealPage was the dominant force driving a market that never favored renters. Recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data covering a 12-month period ending this September showed rents are still rising by 3.5 percent amid an affordability crisis, leaving some US renters in fear of housing instability.

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MINISFORUM AtomMan G1 Pro mini gaming PC with RTX 5060 graphics coming in January 2026

The MINISFORUM G1 Pro is a compact desktop computer that looks more like a game console than a PC… although the lines separating those product categories are getting blurry these days. Inside this little computer is an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX Dragon R…

The MINISFORUM G1 Pro is a compact desktop computer that looks more like a game console than a PC… although the lines separating those product categories are getting blurry these days. Inside this little computer is an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX Dragon Range processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 discrete GPU. First introduced earlier this […]

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Valve’s Steam Machine looks like a console, but don’t expect it to be priced like one

Upcoming gaming box will be priced in line with a similarly specced PC, Valve says.

After Valve announced its upcoming Steam Machine living room box earlier this month, some analysts suggested to Ars that Valve could and should aggressively subsidize that hardware with “loss leader” pricing that leads to more revenue from improved Steam software sales. In a new interview with YouTube channel Skill Up, though, Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais ruled out that kind of console-style pricing model, saying that the Steam Machine will be “more in line with what you might expect from the current PC market.”

Griffais said the AMD Zen 4 CPU and RDNA3 GPU in the Steam Machine were designed to outperform the bottom 70 percent of machines that opt-in to Valve’s regular hardware survey. And Steam Machine owners should expect to pay roughly what they would for desktop hardware with similar specs, he added.

“If you build a PC from parts and get to basically the same level of performance, that’s the general price window that we aim to be at,” Griffais said.

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