Microsoft's GitHub Under Siege As SpaceX's Cursor Takes The AI Stack

GitHub traces 7-hour outage to critical infrastructure failure: Here’s what we know

While most GitHub services recovered earlier that day, some Copilot services took longer.

Microsoft's GitHub Under Siege As SpaceX's Cursor Takes The AI Stack

The GitHub rival, Cursor just launched Origin, hours before GitHub's worst outage in years. Inside the AI industry's race to own the entire developer stack.

Cursor Origin: GitHub Sync and Code Hosting Setup in Early Beta

Cursor launched Origin on August 17, 2026 — its own code hosting platform with repos, PRs, code browsing, and GitHub sync. Same-day GitHub outage amplified developer interest. Early beta is paid-plan only with no clear step-by-step setup guide available. Continue reading Cursor Origin: GitHub Sync and Code Hosting Setup in Early Beta on SitePoint.

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

On August 17, GitHub experienced an outage that lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes. It disrupted github.com, authentication, GitHub Actions, APIs, pull requests, issues, and Copilot, affecting developers and organizations around the world. If you were trying to ship software that day, we let you down. This was our second significant incident in August, following an actions failure on August 6. In March and April, I shared the work underway to improve…

GitHub outage blamed on misconfigured policy as firm pledges resilience improvements

GitHub has revealed the root cause behind a nearly eight-hour long outage on Monday: a misconfigured policy that triggered a cascade of failures.On Monday, GitHub users began struggling to use the service around 1:28pm UTC, reporting issues with API requests, Actions, Webhooks, Pull Requests, and GitHub Copilot. At the time, GitHub said it was seeing error rates between 20% to 50% for different tasks, with other services also impacted. "At peak,…