Tag: Cursor
How to Avoid Repeating the “Automate Everything” Mistake Due to AI FOMO
The DevOps community has already experienced technological extremes. You might recall the time when automation was thought of as a panacea for all possible engineering issues, and the slogan “Automate Everything” was ...
Cursor Launches Origin Code Hosting Platform as GitHub Rival
AI coding provider Cursor has launched Origin, a code hosting platform that puts source code and AI coding agents inside the Cursor development environment. The new coding platform expands the company into ...
GitHub Hit by Widespread Outage, Halting Work for Global Developers
A major technical outage struck GitHub on Monday morning, disrupting workflows for millions of developers worldwide for several hours as critical services, automated testing pipelines, and artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools suffered ...
Security Risks from AI Coding Agents Expand Beyond the Sandbox: Pillar
AI coding assistants have become an essential part of developers’ work, automating many of the repetitive tasks – think boilerplate coding and scaffolding – that in the past ate up a lot ...
‘HalluSquatting’ Compromises AI Coding Agents to Install Malware, Create Botnets
Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem since OpenAI first introduced its ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, highlighting generative AI’s tendency to generate plausible but false or misleading information and its inability to ...
GhostApproval Flaw Featuring Decades-Old Feature Found in Six AI Coding Tools
A security flaw found in six popular AI coding agents can let attackers abuse a decades-old feature in Unix to trick an AI agent into giving them control of a developer’s system ...
Z.ai Debuts ZCode to Compete With GitHub Copilot, Cursor and Anthropic
Chinese AI developer Z.ai has introduced ZCode, a desktop application that automates software development tasks, positioning the platform to compete with established coding platforms from Anthropic, GitHub and Cursor. The company built ...
AI Coding Costs Could Exceed Developer Salaries, Gartner Warns
Enterprises rapidly adopting AI coding assistants may eventually face an unexpected financial reality: the AI tools could cost more than the developers using them. According to new research from Gartner, spending on ...
SpaceX to Acquire AI Coding Leader Cursor in $60 Billion Blockbuster Deal
Fresh off a historic initial public offering, SpaceX announced Tuesday that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Anysphere Inc., the parent company of the popular artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant ...
Cursor’s Composer 2.5 Brings Smarter, More Reliable AI Coding Agents
AI-assisted coding tools are getting a meaningful upgrade. Cursor has released Composer 2.5, the latest version of its proprietary coding agent model, and the improvements go well beyond a version bump. Composer ...
When AI Goes Really, Really Wrong: How PocketOS Lost All Its Data
You can't make this crap up. You just wish you could. Jer Crane, founder of the small vertical software company, PocketOS, reported on X that the AI Cursor coding agent and a ...
Musk’s SpaceX Targets AI Dominance with $60 Billion Cursor Deal
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has struck a deal with artificial intelligence (AI) coding sensation Cursor that gives SpaceX the right to acquire the startup for $60 billion later this year or, alternatively, pay ...

