On 11 September 2026, the first substantive deadline under the Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847, "the CRA") will come into effect.

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Interoperability is the foundation of digital sovereignty; it’s the key ingredient to ensure that end-users stay in control, rather than the vendor.

The UCL Department of Information Studies (DIS) Annual Research Symposium 2026.

At FOSDEM 2026, Neil Johnson explained why sustainability is essential for open source software - and why it matters even more for decentralised networks like Matrix.

The Digital Omnibus: opportunities and risks for open source

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

Help Benjamin Roden raise money to support Epilepsy Action

As limits land on some free self-hosted collaboration tools, more teams are turning to ESS Community - our free-use, open source Matrix distribution.

ESS - Element’s distribution for Matrix deployments

What if your messaging and collaboration app could talk to all the others? Swedish government agencies are investigating the possibility.

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We’re ready for The Matrix Conference 2025 - 300+ participants from 20+ countries and 10+ governments - all championing Matrix-based sovereign, secure and interoperable communications.

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

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...

The brand new updates of the Element Web and Desktop apps include a major rework of room listings. It brings the ‘laptop versions’ of the Element apps in line with the Element X design on mobile devic...

Whether you want to hear how an organization deployed Matrix at scale or learn what the engineers are doing to improve the protocol, the Matrix Conference has a track for you.

The number of data centres is set to jump by a fifth in the coming years, figures seen by the BBC suggest.

Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…

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

Incumbent Democratic Alliance, led by caretaker prime minister Luís Montenegro, still likely to fall short of majority

Help Denise A raise money to support Tommy’s, the pregnancy and baby charity

The Trump administration’s spectacular security breach, in which it seemingly shared details of a planned military strike in Yemen with a journalist, highlights just what can go wrong if you use consu...