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Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race: Cursor began rolling out Origin...

Its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning. Roughly three and a half hours later, GitHub's status page lit up with what became a six-hour-and-forty-two-minute global degradation — error rates near 20% across pull requests, issues and the API, and near 50% on archive and raw file downloads, according to...

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Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race: Cursor began rolling out Origin , its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning. Roughly three and a half hours later, GitHub's status page lit up with what became a six-hour-and-forty-two-minute global degradation — error rates near 20% across pull requests, issues and the API, and near 50% on archive and raw file downloads, according to...

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