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Hiding room metadata from servers

Every year, Element takes on a small number of summer interns to work on various research and development projects. Internships are a significant part of our culture, and ~20% of the current Element engineering team has completed some form of internship with us before joining permanently. This year, our interns

New Element Web and Desktop apps have distinct Element X vibes!

The brand new updates of the Element Web and Desktop apps include a major rework of room listings. It brings the ‘laptop and PC versions’ of the Element apps in line with the Element X design on mobile devices to give a far sleeker experience. This update marks the first

Danielle Kirkwood

TI-Messenger is moving to Matrix 1.15

Gematik recently announced its intention to rebase its TI-Messenger specification on Matrix v1.15, which brings important improvements to TI-Messenger.

Coordinated Matrix security update

A new coordinated security fix for all Matrix server implementations is now published as part of the Matrix 1.16 off‑cycle spec update.

Element Security

Helping to get everyone in their element

Element is now more accessible by design and by default, thanks to more than 40 accessibility improvements.

Danielle Kirkwood

Reality bites the UK government’s push to undermine end-to-end encryption

The UK government’s bruising Apple encounter has, inadvertently, underlined the global support for end-to-end encryption in democratic countries.

TI-Messenger goes live!

It’s a milestone week for Germany’s TI-Messenger initiative as public healthcare insurers go live with their TI-Messenger based solutions!

Addressing fear, uncertainty and doubt thrown at Element and Matrix

We’ve seen a serious uptick in misinformation about Element and Matrix over the last week, so thought it would be useful to set the record straight from Element’s side.

The importance of open standard federation for chat

A genuine open standard is the single most important part of ensuring digitally sovereign communications between multiple separate organisations.

Hacking for a sovereign digital Europe

One of the most exciting highlights from Element at HackDays was the launch of Project Aurora, a bold and experimental prototype web and desktop Matrix client.

Matthew Hodgson

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