Discord accidentally banned over 8,000 people for posting grids and other ‘benign’ images
Discord says a bug affecting its safety system caused it to mistakenly ban more than 8,000 accounts since May. The platform's statement follows a wave of reports from users over the past week, who say they've been banned for posting images containing grids, such as chessboards, game textures, and even Minecraft inventories.
Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord cofounder and chief technology officer, writes that the bug impacted around 200 users who posted "grid-like" pictures, in addition to about 8,000 people who posted "other benign images" since May 2026. "Everyone affected has now been unbanned," Vishnevskiy says.
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Anker’s noise-blocking earbuds for sleeping are nearly half off
You might have a great bed and a good sleepy time routine, but if you’re still struggling to fall (or stay) asleep, Anker’s Soundcore Sleep A20 are worth considering. They’re designed to help muffle distracting sounds, and they’ve hit a new all-time low price of $99.99 ($80 off) at Best Buy and Target.
In his review, my colleague Thomas Ricker said this model helped him average nearly 30 more minutes of sleep each night over a two-week period compared to when he wore the AirPods Pro to sleep. My colleague Jennifer Pattison Tuohy had a similarly positive experience, saying that while she could still hear her husband’s snoring, it was muted enough to fade into the background rather than keep her awake. The Sleep A20 include multiple ear tips and wings so even side sleepers can comfortably wear them overnight.
Beyond blocking noise, they can play white noise, nature sounds, or meditation tracks, and can double as a pair of Bluetooth earbuds if you prefer falling asleep to podcasts or music. The companion app also tracks your sleep, including how long you’ve slept, your sleeping position, and nighttime movement, while extras like a built-in alarm let you wake up without disturbing your partner.
Battery life is another highlight. The Sleep A20 can easily last through the night on a single charge (up to 14 hours) and their case recharges via USB-C. The newer $180 Sleep A30 feature active noise cancellation, which does a better job of masking unwanted sounds, but the feature sacrifices long-lasting battery life.
Read our Anker Soundcore Sleep A20 review.
Three more deals worth a look
- The JBL Go 5 Portable Bluetooth Speaker is down to $44.95 ($10 off) at Amazon, which is its best prices to date. The tiny speaker features an IP68-rated design that can withstand dust and water, while delivering up to 10 hours of playback on a single charge. It also supports lossless audio when wired to your audio source over USB-C.
- It’s been hot out in many parts of the US. To cool off while you’re on the go, I recommend getting Jisulife’s Handheld Fan Life8, which is on sale for $12.32 ($14 off) at Amazon. The foldable USB-C-powered fan works as a handheld or a desktop fan thanks to its built-in stand. It can serve as a flashlight in a pinch or as a backup power bank for charging your phone when needed, though its small size means it’s only good for brief battery top-ups, not full charges.
- The Eero 6 Wi-Fi Router isn’t the company’s latest mesh router, but it’s still a solid pick for smaller homes, especially at its all-time low price of $54.99 ($30 off) at Amazon. The Wi-Fi 6 router covers up to 1,500 square feet, delivers speeds up to 900Mbps, and can handle more than 75 connected devices. It also doubles as a Zigbee smart home hub for compatible Alexa devices, so you can connect supported smart home devices without buying a separate hub.
iRobot’s newest floor cleaner isn’t a robot
iRobot just announced its first-ever non-robotic floor cleaner. The $399 Roomba Electro Plus is a 5-in-1 hard-floor cleaner that combines vacuuming, mopping, and disinfecting, but you have to operate it yourself. The company also announced updates to its line of Roomba robot vacuums, launching five new models with higher suction power, smaller footprints, and lower prices. These largely replace the line that arrived in 2025.
Designed exclusively for hard floors, the new Electro Plus is similar to the new breed of manual wet-dry floor cleaners available from Dreame, Roborock, and others. iRobot's distinguishing feature is Electro's ability …
Microsoft fixes storage-hogging Windows 11 folder
Microsoft is addressing a Windows 11 bug that caused a folder to take up several gigabytes of storage space. As spotted earlier by Windows Latest, Microsoft included the patch in its optional June 2026 update (KB5095093), which "improves disk space usage for the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file."
The CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file is installed on Windows 11 PCs by default, and is related to app permissions. Several users have had issues with this file over the past few months, with one person saying the file took up 500GB of storage on their device. Others have reported the file growing to similarly large amounts, ranging from 12GB …
Solos debuts an even lighter version of its camera-less smart glasses
Solos announced a new version of its AirGo smart glasses, one that forgoes cameras for a sleeker design and an AI assistant that relies on voice interactions. Last year's AirGo A5 weighed 36 to 40 grams depending on the frame style, but the new AirGo A6 weigh around 19 grams. Part of the weight savings comes from thinner temple arms housing speakers, batteries, and other electronics. For comparison, the new Meta Glasses announced last month weigh around 54 to nearly 60 grams depending on the style.
Pricing and availability for the new AirGo A6 hasn't been finalized yet, but the smart glasses will support "full prescription lens compatibilit …
Google Search lets creators know more about their reach
Google is going to give content creators and website owners a better idea of how people find their social media profiles and YouTube content through Search. With a new feature in the Google Search Console called "platform properties," Google says that you'll be able to "easily track which search terms lead people to your Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube content on Search, and see exactly how your audience is interacting with your posts," according to a blog post.
The new feature continues Google's push to make Search more of a hub for everything creators and publishers do online. In June, Google started letting big creators and publishers c …
iFixit has a new toolkit for fixing appliances, building furniture, and household repairs
iFixit is best known for its detailed gadget teardowns and toolkits designed to help you crack open and troubleshoot your own electronics. Today it announced a new toolkit that's instead tailored to household repairs or DIY projects like fixing appliances or assembling flat-packed furniture. iFixit describes its $34.95 Megalodon Driver Kit as a "compact kit for the modern home" and it includes a new screwdriver the company designed to be a better alternative to traditional ratcheting drivers.
The star of the show is the Megalodon driver featuring a bright blue end cap iFixit calls the Swivel Grip Cap. The screwdriver is able to spin freely …
Marshall upgrades the bass and repairability of two wireless speakers
Marshall announced new versions of its Acton and Stanmore Bluetooth speakers today with upgraded tweeters, bass ports, and internal designs that improve their ability to fill a room with sound. Both the Acton IV and Stanmore IV replace their four-year-old predecessors with a new focus on repairability. Parts including knobs, feet, and the speakers' front grills bearing the iconic Marshall logo are replaceable should they get damaged.
The smaller Acton IV, featuring a 4-inch woofer and a pair of 0.75-inch tweeters, is available starting today for $299.99 through Marshall's online store. The Stanmore IV, which has a similar driver setup but w …
Xbox’s bold plan for the future sounds nearly impossible
It's another bad week for the video game industry. Microsoft outlined a series of layoffs on Monday that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma described as "the most significant restructure in Xbox history." But buried in Sharma's memo was a curiously optimistic statement: "I want Xbox to be one of the few companies that entertains more than a billion people each day and gives everyone the opportunity to create and connect," she wrote.
Xbox has been a shambling mess after Microsoft spent billions of dollars with little to show for it, and now it aims to reach a much bigger audience with a much smaller team, amid one of the most challenging times in the ind …
Are you ready for what it takes to stop ghost guns?
In the summer of 2024, former Army National Guard member Andrew Scott Hastings spent a sweaty afternoon carefully packing boxes with parts he made using his 3D printer. These weren't novelty figurines or replacement Ikea pieces. The boxes were instead filled with a handful of homemade firearm lower receivers and more than 100 "switches," small devices capable of converting a semiautomatic gun into a fully automatic weapon. Their intended recipients, federal prosecutors allege, were al-Qaida operatives.
Months later ATF agents busted two men in Colorado Springs for allegedly using 3D printers to churn out hundreds of illegal machine gun conv …