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Prevent Duplicate File Uploads With Laravel Storage Dedupler

Laravel Storage Dedupler uses SHA-1 hashes to prevent duplicate file storage, attach files to Eloquent models, and analyse existing directories. The post Prevent Duplicate File Uploads With Laravel Storage Dedupler appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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Flock: A Free, Native Herd Alternative for Laravel

Flock is a free, open source local dev app for Laravel that runs PHP, Node, databases, mail, and HTTPS natively on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The post Flock: A Free, Native Herd Alternative for Laravel appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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Slow Job Alerts and Replica Commit IDs in Laravel 13.40

Laravel 13.40 adds callbacks for slow queue jobs and scheduled tasks, commit IDs to check read replica lag, and insertBefore() and insertAfter() for middleware. The post Slow Job Alerts and Replica Commit IDs in Laravel 13.40 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will pop

Emmanuel Roman, chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco), during the Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. | Bloomberg via Getty Images People, including on this staff, keep asking me with varying degrees of excitement or trepidation when the AI bubble will burst. I'll tell you what I tell them: If I knew that, I would make a life-changing bet on the market, levered up as far as I could, and then, after I made my

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Canva is announcing changes and layoffs affecting 22 percent of its staff

Canva is making significant changes affecting 1,271 people, which is 22 percent of its staff, co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins announced today. "For some people, this will mean changes to their roles or being asked to relocate to centralised hubs," says Perkins. "Sadly, it will also mean saying goodbye to teammates and friends who have helped build Canva into what it is today." In her note to staff, Perkins says that: After exploring a wide range of alternatives, I've come to the difficult con

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Sonos adds new Presets and prepares for the 27voice AI beta

Sonos is rolling out a big app update that includes new Presets and early access to its AI voice assistant. You can create a preset to play music at a specific volume in a certain room, which will appear directly on the homescreen so you can quickly start playback. If you're in the US, you can also sign up for a spot on the waitlist for the new Sonos 27voice assistant on November 6th, with access starting on November 12th. As teased by Sonos previously, you'll be able to use the assistant to do

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