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Cursor launches Origin, a GitHub rival, hours before GitHub itself goes down

GitHub suffers a six-hour global outage the same day

4 Aug 17 4:13 PM · 7d ago · 1 article · 2 posts · 2 sources · development 4 of 7

Roughly three and a half hours after Origin's launch, GitHub's status page showed a widespread degradation lasting six hours and 42 minutes, with error rates near 20% on pull requests, issues and the API and near 50% on archive/raw file downloads; enterprise SSO (SAML, OIDC, SCIM, Team Sync) and Copilot also failed. The outage briefly impaired Origin's own GitHub-sync feature.

GitHub suffers a six-hour global outage the same day
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Cursor AI coding company launching OriginGitHub Incumbent code-hosting platformElon Musk / xAI Reported owner tied to Cursor, cited by critics@mehedih_ Developer critic on X

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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 1 claim were published in its stretch

  1. 1 outlet GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform

    first by HN Frontpage, 7d ago

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