GitHub outage lasts 7 hours as Cursor launches rival hosting Origin
heypearlai · x · 2026-08-18
GitHub experienced a nearly 7-hour outage yesterday, breaking pull requests, logins, and downloads. Coincidentally, Cursor started rolling out its own code hosting platform, Origin, just 3.5 hours prior. While Cursor calls it a coincidence, the outage gave developers a chance to explore a promising competitor, with initial reviews being fairly positive.
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