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Cursor launches code hosting platform as GitHub suffers six-hour outage

Cursor launches code hosting platform as GitHub suffers six-hour outage

Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning. Within three and a half hours, GitHub experienced a global degradation lasting six hours and forty-two minutes, with error rates near 20% across pull requests, issues, and the API, and near 50% on archive and raw file downloads. Enterprise single sign-on services including SAML, OIDC, SCIM provisioning, Team Sync, and Copilot all failed during the incident.

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