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Cursor launches Origin code hosting hours before GitHub's six-hour global outage
verifiedDeveloper
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Confidence
High · — vendor announcement plus independent trade reporting and a documented outage
Evidence
Cursor announcement + GitHub incident log + VentureBeat, SiliconAngle
Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own code-hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning; roughly three-and-a-half hours later, GitHub degraded globally for six hours and 42 minutes.
- Origin ships with Vercel, Depot and Buildkite integrations and executes existing GitHub Actions unchanged.
- GitHub's outage hit ~20% error rates plus SAML/OIDC/SCIM failures, downing Copilot.
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