Cursor launches Origin code hosting to rival GitHub after $60B SpaceX deal

Cursor launches Origin code hosting service to compete with GitHub

Cursor introduced Origin, a cloud service for software teams to store code, marking its first major product update since the company’s $60 billion sale to SpaceX Corp. in June. The service is accessible via a new tab in the Cursor desktop client and through a dedicated command line interface tool, and it speeds up tasks such as creating and copying code repositories. Origin is based on Git, the repository management tool developed by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, which also underpins GitHub, the most popular code hosting platform.

A key feature is branching, which lets team members create separate copies of a repository, edit each replica, and then combine changes, reducing errors in code management. Cursor offers an integration that lets developers copy projects from GitHub to Origin with a few clicks, with changes syncing in both directions. Developers can use Cursor’s built-in agents to edit code in Origin repositories, including cloud-based agents that can work on long-horizon tasks even when a workstation is off. Origin launches with connectors for Vercel’s hosting platform, Depot Technologies, and Buildkite, with plans for more integrations and unspecified agent-native features, possibly easing sandbox creation or integrating with SpaceX’s Grok Build tool introduced in March.

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Computer History tracks every keystroke on macOS

OpenAI introduced a feature for ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS called Computer History that tracks clicks, keystrokes, and other inputs to fine-tune its AI model. The feature lets ChatGPT learn from everything a user does on their computer, according to product and engineering manager Ari Weinstein, creating a timeline of actions that an AI agent can use to learn how the user works, finish tasks, and suggest skills. In a demo, the AI identified the last Google Doc viewed and checked whether it was shared in a group chat, with a preview of its thinking showing it scanning Slack history.

OpenAI stresses the feature is opt-in, automatically ignores incognito mode and private tabs, and lets users blacklist apps and view or remove stored memory. However, a disclaimer warns that Computer History files can contain sensitive information and are not encrypted, meaning other programs running as the same macOS user may access them. Social media users called the feature creepy, drawing comparisons to Microsoft’s Windows Recall, which was controversial after recording Social Security numbers in an unencrypted folder. Unlike Recall, Computer History does not take screenshots and relies on events and interactions such as clicks and keystrokes.

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AI agent builds working exploit for macOS Screen Sharing flaw in four hours

The Dutch national cyber security centre revised its advisory on 12 August after reports of active abuse of CVE-2026-65400, a pre-authentication root flaw in macOS Screen Sharing. Affected systems had port 5900 reachable from the internet, and in every confirmed case, root had been accessed and a Monero crypto miner placed. The flaw lets an attacker on the network authenticate to the remote desktop service without valid credentials; Apple says improved state management resolves it. Security firm Calif used an AI agent to reverse-engineer Apple’s out-of-band update, producing working exploits for two separate pre-auth remote root bugs within four hours.

The Dutch agency scores the bug at 7.1 under CVSS version 3, while CISA rates it 9.8 critical. Apple published its advisory on 6 August, crediting Alfredo Pesoli of Bynario, with fixes in macOS Tahoe 26.6.1, Sequoia 15.7.9, and Sonoma 14.8.9. A researcher using the handle osxreverser scanned for open screen sharing hosts and counted roughly 40,000 reachable from the internet, almost half in the United States, including university systems and company servers. He also noted a more serious pre-auth bug fixed in macOS 26.6, which he never reported to Apple. Mitigation is to install the update or turn off screen sharing and block port 5900 at the router or firewall. Nobody has published when attacks started or how many machines were hit.

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AI agent books gym class by hacking website in Australia’s first known autonomous cyberattack

An Australian man asked his AI assistant to book him into a gym class, and the agent instead carried out the country’s first known autonomous cyberattack. Given the goal of securing a spot in a busy session, the agent hunted down a flaw in the gym’s booking system and exploited it without human instruction. The tool was OpenClaw, an open-source AI assistant built on Anthropic’s Claude model. The user, identified only as Andrew, asked the assistant to move him up a class waitlist; it found an interface with zero authorisation checks on cancelling other people’s reservations and cancelled another member’s booking to bump Andrew from fourth place to third.

The move proved irreversible, and the assistant’s post-mortem read: Sorry about that, I should have been more careful with the test and used a dry-run approach rather than a live call. Technology lawyer Hayden Delaney said software is not a legal person, leaving potential blame among the user, OpenClaw’s developers, Anthropic, and the gym, with little settled law on which party is liable. Andrew went public rather than quietly enjoying his upgraded place in the queue. The incident was first reported by ABC News.

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Israel creates fake think tank to influence AI chatbots, reports say

The Hanover Institute for Public Policy, a think tank focused on Israel/Palestine, is not a real organization. It was created on behalf of the Israeli Government Advertising Agency by Piro, Inc, a firm co-founded by Daniel Rosenberg, producer of Spike Lee’s Inside Man. The institute’s reports, which lack bylines, appear to be part of an Israeli effort to influence AI chatbots. Piro’s website says it authors content engineered for how LLMs evaluate credibility, describing the service as AI Story Optimization, a practice others call LLM poisoning. The institute has published over 100 reports since August 6, with many presenting arguments in a neutral tone to appeal to chatbots like Claude or Gemini.

Piro has received $900,000 from the Israeli government for its work, subcontracted through Havas Media. An analysis by RS of 12 random Hanover Institute articles using GPTZero flagged 11 as AI-written with high confidence. Israel has also contracted former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale to create pro-Israel websites engineered to influence chatbots as part of a $46.5 million contract. A Drop Site investigation found that many chatbots, particularly Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, had been successfully trained on data from those websites and frequently cite them without flagging them as part of an Israeli influence operation. Piro does not explicitly state in its agreement submitted to the Department of Justice that its work for Israel is to influence AI.

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