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Element signs Chat Control open letter Element has joined other European organisations in an open letter to European leaders on the latest developments regarding Chat Control.

Element has signed an open letter to European leaders alongside other organisations.

The Danish Presidency’s CSA proposal risks adding backdoors and client-side scanning – undermining encryption, security, and trust across Europe.

Strong encryption protects everyone. Weakening it protects no one.

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 e...

🚀 We’re pleased to showcase the work of our summer intern, Skye, who made a big impact with their work on encrypted state events.

The blog post breaks down the project in detail.

element.io/blog/hiding-...

A YouTube thumbnail for Matrix Live. The Title says "How Hard Coul It Be? A two-day Element hackathon". It's the 12th episode of the 11th season.

The results of a 2 day hackathon (1 hour of demos!), an official Matrix server for the European Commission, and the Trust & Safety Working Group in Motion.

That and much more happened This Week In Matrix

matrix.org/blog/2025/09...

Project Hydra: Improving state resolution in Matrix Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

We’ve now published the details of the security issues which we addressed in Monday’s coordinated security release of Matrix: read all about Project Hydra at matrix.org/blog/2025/08... and please upgrade your servers and rooms where applicable.

Matrix.org Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Element's backend team has published a great postmortem of their work recovering the matrix.org postgres database from corruption over the last few weeks.

For those interested in the work Element does to keep matrix.org running, check out matrix.org/blog/2025/07...

A door outlawing photographs and video recording

Same door as before

So a man just walked out of this door revealing an office with a desk. Not sure you need the sign tbh.

It’s train station, how exciting could it be?

Neglected housing, sign claims it to be under constant surveillance.

Constant I tell ya!

Bin with alarming signage

This bin means business.

Open door with the label ‘open this door first’

It’s happening. This is not a drill. The Door has been Opened. Repeat The Door has been Opened. Assemble!

Running outdated versions of Synapse is a problem If you’re still using the old Apache-licensed Synapse version 1.98.0 or older, you’re running unsupported, vulnerable software.

⚠️ If you’re running an outdated version of Synapse, you’re putting your organisation at risk.

🚨 Version 1.98.0 of Synapse (or older) exposes you to critical vulnerabilities, compliance failures and security risks.

🔐 Get up to date.

The award goes to...

👏 Congratulations to Amandine Le Pape for winning the Business & Impact Award at #EOSA2025! 🚀

🤝Presented by Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman of Mozilla and a pioneer in open internet advocacy. #FOSS #GovTech
#OpenSource #TechForGood

Scaling to millions of users requires Synapse Pro Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail if built on the community version of Synapse. Huge deployments need a different architecture, which is what Synapse Pro delivers.

🚨Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail if built on the community version of Synapse.

Just as a suspension bridge has a weight limit and will collapse if you exceed it - the same goes for community Synapse.

Deployments supporting millions of users need Synapse Pro.

Huge congrats to the team. This fundamentally changes what you can do with a large scale Matrix server.

Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix Senators Ron Wyden and Eric Schmitt push the Defense Department to expand the use of Matrix to deliver sovereign, end-to-end encrypted and interoperable communications.

US senators urge @deptofdefense.bsky.social to expand the use of the @matrix.org open standard in light of the #SaltTyphoon attack on the US telephone network.

Matrix stand at K2, come say hi. #fosdem

Eurostar

#fosdem here we come

Right, let’s give bsky a go for realsies this weekend. 😎🚀

Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Since announcing the idea of Matrix 2.0 at FOSDEM, we've been busy building out full real-world implementations for folks to play with, and today we're super excited to take the wraps off Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix. matrix.org/blog/2023/09... 👀🎉🎊🍾👀

Matthew Hodgson is interviewed by Ian King on Sky News about the Online Safety Bill

I ended up on Sky News this morning, trying to explain how catastrophic the Online Safety Bill is, in terms of introducing a backdoor into end-to-end encryption: https://youtu.be/QQZ7sIk-iHQ

I have questions …