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UX designer Scott Jenson urges KDE developers at Akademy 2026 to rethink desktop UI beyond WIMP

At KDE's Akademy 2026 conference, former Apple and Google UX designer Scott Jenson called on open-source developers to experiment with desktop interfaces beyond the decades-old windows, icons, menus and pointer model. Jenson, who now works with Mastodon and Home Assistant, said he left Google over cultural changes there and now tries to bring better UX practices to open-source projects despite their limited staffing.

lwn.net · 2026-09-24

LUX-ZEPLIN detector logs single anomalous signal, hinting at possible dark matter hit

Scientists at the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment, which uses 10 tonnes of liquid xenon buried in South Dakota's Sanford Underground Research Facility, recorded one unusual flash consistent with a WIMP particle striking a xenon nucleus. The result, described in a preprint that has not yet been peer-reviewed, is far from confirmed but has generated excitement because it could represent the long-sought direct detection of dark matter.

nature.com · 2026-09-02