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Plex has partnered with Fandango to let US users buy movie theater tickets directly from title pages for films currently playing in theaters. The integration uses Kochava for attribution tracking, letting studios and advertisers measure how campaigns translate into ticket sales. Fandango, which sells tickets for 31,000 US theater screens, gains access to Plex's viewing and search data to gauge audience intent.
The guide explains how to repurpose an old computer as a home media server by adding storage (ideally with redundancy like RAID) and installing server software such as Plex or Jellyfin to stream content across devices. It compares the two platforms, noting Plex's simplicity but paid features versus Jellyfin's free, more customizable but technical setup, particularly around GPU-based media transcoding.
Security researchers found more than 36,000 internet-facing Plex Media Server instances that have not applied fixes for previously disclosed security flaws. These unpatched servers remain publicly reachable, leaving them open to exploitation by attackers.
The open-source media server project Jellyfin has shipped version 12.0, a stable release that completes the database conversion started in 10.11 and translates it into concrete performance gains. The update also adds long-requested support for books and comics, alongside changes to how usernames and alternate video versions are stored.
Plex is urging all users to immediately update Plex Media Server to version 1.43.3 and Plex Desktop to version 1.115.0, both released earlier this year, to fix multiple unspecified security vulnerabilities. The company emailed affected customers directly and said CVE identifiers have been requested but not yet published, though the flaws are known to impact Media Server v1.43.2 and earlier.