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Spotify expands audiobooks to 180 markets, bringing its catalog to 750M users, and adds 350K titles in 120 languages in partnership with 300 publishers (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/spotify-expands-audiobooks-to-over-180-mark…

Spotify expands audiobooks to over 180 markets | TechCrunch
Spotify will make 350,000 titles available in over 120 languages for this expansion

from my link log —
Linear types for Haskell are merged into GHC.
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-06-19-linear-types-merged/
saved 2020-06-19 …

Linear types are merged in GHC
Looking back at the journey which brought us there, and forward to what still lies ahead.

Spotify expands audiobooks to 180 markets, bringing its catalog to 750M users, and adds 350K titles in 120 languages in partnership with 300 publishers (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/spotify-expands-audiobooks-to-over-180-mark…

Spotify expands audiobooks to over 180 markets | TechCrunch
Spotify will make 350,000 titles available in over 120 languages for this expansion

More Latin American species are surfacing at a Bangkok wildlife market https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/10/more-latin-american-species-are-surfacing-at-a-bangkok-wildlife-market/

More Latin American species are surfacing at a Bangkok wildlife market
More Amazonian species, in larger numbers, are appearing for sale on the other side of the planet in Southeast Asia’s exotic pet trade, reports contributor Gloria Dickie for Mongabay. Over the past two years, Scott Roberton, who leads the countertrafficking program for U.S.-based nonprofit Wildlife Conservation Society, has observed a rise in Latin American species, […]

A few days ago the EU released an updated #PPWR FAQ:
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/ad14cb8f-8d4f-11f1-9262-01aa75ed71a1

Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) - Publications Office of the EU
Regulation (EU) 2025/401 establishes a harmonised legal framework for packaging and packaging waste across the European Union. Its primary objective is to ensure the smooth functioning of the internal market while significantly reducing the environmental and health impacts associated with packaging throughout its life cycle. By replacing Directive 94/62/EC2, this regulation introduces clearer, stricter, and more uniform requirements for all economic operators and Member States, fostering a tran…

The poorest people in the U.S. face the most acute shortages of affordable homes.
But the majority of low-income housing financed in recent years is for those earning 50% of an area’s median income or above,
according to a survey of state housing agencies.
Some cities are now seeing an uptick in vacancies as rents for these units approach market rates.
The result: Apartments designated as affordable sit empty because the poorest of the poor cannot afford them

There's not enough housing for America's poorest while low-income units sit empty
The poorest people in the U.S. face the most acute shortage of affordable homes. That’s partly because the majority of low-income housing financed in recent years has been for those earning at least 50% of an area’s median income. Now, some cities are seeing an uptick in vacancies in these units as their rents approach those of market-rate apartments. As a result, some people who qualify are opting for market-rate apartments with less income-verification requirements and a faster chance of …

Robinhood adds Crypto.com's yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in the exchange and its prediction market business OG (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/curr…

NYC-based Blee, which makes marketing compliance software for financial services companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Fin Capital and SMBC and a $7M seed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/09/08/blee-27r-million-compli…

Exclusive: Blee raises $27M for marketing compliance software
Compliance review can remain heavily manual for fintechs.

A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles (Yan Zhuang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

China’s New Graduates, Facing a Dire Job Market, Must Also Contend With A.I.
A record 12.7 million young people are looking for jobs as the country embraces artificial intelligence — and as the technology begins to upend the work force.

Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after "purported white-hat hackers" withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/…