Cursor Drops Origin, GitHub Crashes: The $60B Play to Own Developer Infrastructure

The Announcement

Cursor, now owned by SpaceX, 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 neared 20% across pull requests, issues, and the API, and hovered around 50% on archive and raw file downloads, according to GitHub's incident log. Enterprise single sign-on — SAML, OIDC, SCIM provisioning, and...