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A genetically modified pig kidney kept a 66-year-old man off dialysis for a record nine months, marking the longest survival yet for a pig kidney transplanted into a living person and the first time such an organ successfully served as a bridge to a later human transplant. The Guardian reports: Tim Andrews was seriously ill with end-stage kidney disease caused by type 2 diabetes and had only a 9% chance of receiving a human kidney within five years, against a more than 40% risk of dying or being removed from the waiting list. Kidney transplantation provides the best survival and quality of life for patients with end-stage kidney disease, but global demand for human organs far exceeds supply.

Surgeons in the US successfully transplanted a kidney from Wilma, a Yucatan miniature pig, into Andrews, after genetically engineering it to be compatible with his immune system. The kidney kept Andrews free of dialysis for a record nine months, the longest period ever recorded, before it began failing and he received one from a dead human donor. It was also the first time a pig's kidney had been used as a temporary "bridge" to a human transplant. The breakthrough has been detailed in the journal Lancet.

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James Patterson's latest novel, The Most Dangerous Game, is a collaboration with Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, a YouTube star with more than half a billion subscribers. Donaldson, who appears as a character in the novel, is known for his brand of gamified philanthropy that has been called "poverty porn," and his Prime Video reality show "Beast Games" is the subject of a class-action lawsuit on behalf of its contestants. And the book? With pre-orders in the four-figure range (although disputed by the publisher), Donaldson, who hopes that his collaboration will be "the first book that [his fans have] ever read that they loved," might be relying on a $1m contest to spur sales.

"I have a lot of lines in the book," Donaldson says. "If we were lucky enough to do a movie, I wouldn't want to ruin it because I don't have much acting skills."

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Maldhound is a Magic the Gathering youtuber/instagrammer, best known for roasting user-submitted decks and potential commanders. On the side though he is a surprising font of wisdom on how to be kinder to yourself and how to deal with gaps between desired and actual productivity (almost all links are Youtube shorts). Self-care Videos The Most Helpful Video I Will Ever Create The problem with lazy people Take a breath I'm right and you know it A lock in alternative Lazy people don't feel guilt?! Clip farming Random Tech Shorts I hate AI A simple question Random Politics Shorts I hate that I can believe this (George Santos) POV: Your name is Mitch Marx would've loved LoL TCGPlayer doubles down (not funny, but a good PSA) If you prefer long-form videos he has several dozen 10-20 min discussion-style videos at a second channel.

The popular JavaScript package manager pnpm, already known for its speedy downloads, has further cut installation times by up to 90 percent thanks to a complete rewrite in Rust. Yet the freshly released version 12 of pnpm should not cause consternation while upgrading, its maintainer says. “Upgrading should not feel like a migration. The commands, flags, settings, and lockfile format of pnpm 11 all carry over, and the documentation covers both versions,” wrote Zoltan Kochan, the current lead maintainer of pnpm. In the project’s own benchmarks, pnpm 12 installed a sample uncached package in 5.19 seconds, compared to the 8.22 seconds pnpm 11 required and the 47.7 seconds npm itself required. The project team also built a registry server in Rust, called pnpr, which improves performance even further. In the above test, the installation took only 3.37 seconds with pnpr on the backend. A new Rust core binary, on which work started in April, eliminates a lot of the overhead that comes from routing filesystem work through Node.js. This new version is 65.9 percent Rust and 33.5 percent TypeScript, according to the GitHub stats. “Package installation is dominated by fetching metadata and tarballs, unpacking files, resolving dependency graphs, and linking packages into node_modules, making it a natural target for native code and parallelism,” wrote Sarah Gooding, vice president of communications for security provider Socket, in a blog post. Gooding also noted that the project benchmarked pnpm against Bun and Yarn, but the results were removed due to testing SNAFUs. Nonetheless, she noted the software cut install times by up to 90 percent in some cases. A faster npm Developer Rico Sta. Cruz originally created pnpm in 2016 as a faster alternative to npm (Node Package Manager), JavaScript’s de facto package manager, which devs used to find and download libraries and tools. GitHub acquired the open source npm software and repository in 2020. Npm garnered a reputation for being both sluggish and hungry for disk space, thanks to its generous practice of downloading all needed dependencies onto users’ machines, regardless of whether they were duplicates. Pnpm’s secret sauce is content-addressable storage. If you need a single library for 100 different applications, pnpm downloads it only once, and downloads another copy only if the developer specifies a different version. Like npm, pnpm still draws from the official npm repository, but arguably works better than npm for many. Many devs also like that the lockfile describing the package’s dependency tree was more readable thanks to its use of YAML. The 2025 State of JavaScript survey showed that pnpm was by far the most popular package manager for JavaScript monorepos, a party that also included Nx, Lerna, Yalc, Turborepo and even npm’s built-in Workspaces. About 38 percent (3,840) of 10,251 surveyed developers used the package manager. Rust for JavaScript Rewriting applications in Rust seems to be a favorite activity these days, as the language is known for speedy performance unhampered by garbage collection. In the Web app ecosystem alone, the Bun framework just got an AI-fueled Rust makeover, Tailwind CSS version 4 got a new Rust engine called Oxide, and the Vite framework now speeds along thanks to a Rust-built JavaScript bundler called Rolldown. “It is a bit of [an] indictment on Node for having poor dx” (developer experience), wrote Darcy Clarke, CEO of JavaScript package management platform provider vlt, in an X message, about the Rust rewrite of pnpm. “It was faster to rewrite pnpm in rust than to migrate to esm” (ECMAScript modules), replied pnpm's Kochan, agreeing with Clarke’s sentiment. The software’s GitHub page still points at the last major release, pnpm 11.25, so existing users will have to update to the v12 branch specifically (“pnpm self-update next-12” will get you there). ®